Technopolitical Transitions: Expectations and Promises in Decidim
-
Margarita SalasCarrer de Concepción Arenal 165, El Congrés i els Indians, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Espanya
-
Description:
Socio-technical and eco-social transitions toward more sustainable and democratic societies require specific postures and mindsets, new ways of designing, theories of change and visions for transitions.Decidim is the result of an ever-extending community of practice, a participatory governance infrastructure, a design and organizational culture, and the crystallization of visions of desirable futures.
This session is oriented to test a toolkit that allows to elicit, explore, and expand such visions. Considering Decidim as a prefigurative technopolitical project (and movement) made out of matter and meaning, this toolkit aims to design with expectations for technopolitical transitions. Expectations are semiotic-material and political forces. They are collective visions of the future that coordinate behaviour, meaning and affect in the present.
Objectives:
- Understand what kind of promises and expectations are managed within the Decidim community
- Stimulate promises and expectations of technopolitical transition
Methodology:
Introduction (15 minutes)
- Welcome and introductions
- Overview of the project and brief introduction to sociology of expectations and promises
Toolkit testing (60 minutes)
- Identify socio-technical promises and expectations within Decidim community
- Understand how these promises and expectations are sought to be realised
- Find what are the limitations of these promises and expectations
- Use fiction to stimulate promises and expectations to challenge assumptions and objectives
- Designing actions to shift the promises and expectations from the niche of the Decidim community to other areas of society
Wrap-up and conclusion (15 minutes)
- Key highlights and takeaways
- Evaluation and improvement proposals
Workshop conducted by: Becoming with Holon and Tecnopolitica (IN3-UOC)
Language: English with Catalan or Spanish translation if needed
Share