A room of one’s own - reflecting and speculating on our working practice

This taller is proposed as a space to honour the work of MediaLab Prado’s community of women and QTI/GNC people. Much like a map is an excuse for us to get lost, this taller is an excuse for us to come together to reflect on our own individual practices and in the exchange of our stories, find ways of being together and supporting each other.

‘Perhaps it is the struggle that gives us the resources we need to build more just worlds. These resources might include a certain willingness to cause trouble, but they also involve humour, laughter, dance, loving and eating: all the ways we have to

Citoyen 2.0

Citoyen 2.0 is a web platform for citizen participation. Citoyen2.0 is powered by CONSUL APP, the app behind DECIDE Madrid. The context of Burkina Faso in West Africa is unique. In fact, Burkina Faso as gone through an insurection in 2014, followed by a Coup in 2015 all these preceded by 27 years of...

Edition marathon 'Edita Tu Deuda'

The Edita tu Deuda edition marathon aims to improve the focus, quality and number of articles on debt, debt types and related content, as well as economic concepts and jargon, which are normally described in a technical and incomprehensible way for citizens. The aim of the edition is to increase public knowledge about debt and the economy with a much closer language and from a social perspective, given the direct relationship between the economy and the well-being of the population. Another of the objectives of this edition is to raise public awareness of the need for greater transparency and

GANA Municipales

Nariño in the South of Colombia is one of the regions with more diversity in the world. Nevertheless its human richness, geographical or cultural has been victim of the war in Colombia. One of the wealthiness of the Department in Nariño is its population diversity: farmers, indigenous people, afro...

Holopolis: prototyping future democracy

Taiwan has been experimenting with bringing citizens and government together in a civic deliberation process for crafting digital legislation. Our process, vTaiwan, brings people directly into governance and helps lawmakers implement decisions with a greater degree of legitimacy. We see our project...

The Chronicles of Xenosocialist AI

A collaborative worldbuilding project that aims to produce a series of narratives and imaginaries about what the outcomes of a potential encounter of a xenosocialist AI with the human-inhabited Earth might be. What micropolitical trajectories might become visible again if we imagine xenosocialism as...

Wikum

Large-scale discussions between many participants abound on the internet today, on topics ranging from political arguments to group coordination. But as these discussions grow to tens of thousands of posts, they become ever more difficult for a reader to digest. In this repository, we document the...