ISSP · Infrastructuring SuStainable Playbour
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2018-01-08 → 2020-01-07
- EU contribution
- €200,195
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
Infrastructuring SuStainable Playbour
Initially triggered by the concept of “playbour”, ISSP cared to investigate and better understand the temporal sustainability of grassroots, participatory initiatives that attend to the nurturing of commons - shared resources which are collectively managed outside the scope of market-driven and state-governed logics - through practices of commoning. From caring for urban gardens and collective spaces, to fostering free and open-source projects and infrastructures, such initiatives have proven effective both in creating, sharing and sustaining different forms of value(s) creation and in allowing space for exploring and experimenting with more sustainable, fairer and just subjectivities that are alternative to contemporary, extractivist and neoliberal forms of resources exploitation. However, as commons and commoning progressively show their potential, they attract the interest of extractivist practices on the one hand, and they are loaded with more and more expectations or demands on the others. The long-term sustainability of commons and commoning is therefore an issue that shall not be neglected. To study this long-term sustainability, ISSP focused particularly on commoners and the conditions of alienation and detachment from their engagement in commons and commoning practices. ISSP had three specific objectives: (1) to develop a conceptual understanding of the relationship between long term sustainability of engagement and the participants’ subjective dimension; (2) to develop practical guidelines and recommendations to support the (co)design and implementation of more sustainable infrastructures for collaborative commons; (3) to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda for further actions on supporting commoning and collaborative infrastructures.
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
This proposal relates to the sustainability of grassroots, collaborative and participative socio-technical communities to the extent that it focuses on the paradigmatic case of playbour: a concept describing “a condition where play is work and work is play“ and referring to those collaborative and participative assemblages where the dimensions of fun and enjoyment, typical of engagement in play, blur and mix with the ones of productivity and professionalization of participation. Overarching goal of this proposal is to develop a set of guidelines and principles which would support practitioners and scholars in nurturing collaborative infrastructures that embed sustainability by (co)design. The research relies on the analytical lens of infrastructure and infrastructural inversion typical of Science and Technology Studies (STS). At the empirical level the research involves a comparative case study approach which will examine socio-technical collectives which are engaged in playbour and are in the maturity stage of their life cycle. Qualitative data gathering (participant observation and interviewing) and inductive analysis techniques (grounded theory) will be adopted for this study. The impact of this study will be relevant to the extent that European Commission is also trying to nurture and steer collaborative, grassroots and innovative initiatives (e.g. ""Open and Participative Innovation"" and ""Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social Innovation” frames). The result of this research will also provide practical insights for the sustainability of these instances.""
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- IT-UNIVERSITETET I KOBENHAVN · KOBENHAVNCoordinatorDenmark
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Data: CORDIS, © European Union