Toys for Conviviality. Situating Commoning, Computation and Modelling

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ID16964610
AutoresSelena Savić (0000-0002-1509-6661, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Viktor Bedö (0000-0003-1974-5320, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Michaela Büsse (FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Yann Martins (FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Shintaro Miyazaki (0000-0002-7922-735X, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas143-153
Fecha de publicación2020-12-31
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOpen Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2451-3474 • E-ISSN: 2451-3474
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/culture-2020-0015
OpenAlexW3115859768
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas11

This article explores the use of agent-based modelling as a critical and playful form of engagement with cooperative housing organizations. Because of its inherent complexities vis-à-vis decision-making, commoning is a well-suited field of study to explore the potential of humanities-driven experimental design (media) research to provoke critical reflection, problem-finding and productive complication. By introducing two different agent-based models, the interdisciplinary research team discusses their experience with setting up parameters for modelling, their implications, and the possibilities and limits of employing modelling techniques as a basis for decision-making. While it shows that modelling can be helpful in detecting long-term results of decisions or testing out effects of unlikely yet challenging events, modelling might act as a discursive practice uncovering hidden assumptions inherent in the model setup and generating an increase of scientific uncertainty. The project “ThinkingToys for Commoning” thus argues for a critical modelling practice and culture, in which models act as toys for probing alternative modes of living together and exploring the constructedness of methods. In countering late forms of capitalism, the resulting situated and critical practice provides avenues for enabling more self-determined forms of governance

Corporate governance · Critical reflection · Critical theory · Economics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Management · Management science · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Artificial Intelligence

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