ABSTRACT
The paper will discuss an experimental co-design approach to the development of a digital toolkit prototype and a resulting set of co-design principles, which are put forward as a way of infrastructuring future design of digital tools for urban commoning. Focus is placed on the case study of a commoning hub in a Parisian suburb where the toolkit was co-designed through a series of prototyping workshops, carried out with hub users and addressing key hub needs. The prototyping process explored possibilities for re-appropriating and re-framing existing digital technologies as open toolkits, which can be further re-purposed by users, here and beyond, after the design of an initial toolkit prototype.
Acknowledgments
Agrocité group, AAA and Harriet Francis for her contributions to the organisation and recording of the Agrocité workshops; Public Works, StudioBasar and their collaborators.
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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
3. This was tested in the subsequent case studies by a research team member who did not have an IT background or technological training.