Architectures of Participation

October 9, 9:00 am ET

Online synchronous

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This event brings together people working across cooperative technology, including platform co-op organizers, worker collective members, technologists, researchers, and platform economy workers such as couriers, drivers, home cleaners, journalists, and content moderators, to examine why cooperative technology projects succeed, stall, or fail.

Rather than treating software as the solution, the discussion will focus on governance, adoption, participatory design, local needs, maintenance, collective action, and the technologies communities explicitly choose to refuse. The goal is to surface practical lessons from existing projects and develop a short guiding document for future solidarity tech collaborations.

Sybille Légitime — Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, Brown University (Data in Society Collective (DISCO) Lab; Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign)

Yuhan Liu — Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science (Human–Computer Interaction Lab), Princeton University

Andrés Monroy-Hernández — Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

Trebor Scholz — Associate Professor, The New School; Founding Director, Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC)

Harini Suresh — Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Brown University