Happenstance, Strategies and Tactics

Bødker, Susanne; Korsgaard, Henrik; Lyle, Peter; Saad-Sulonen, Joanna

doi:10.1145/2971485.2971564

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“…This is presented as a single snapshot of an infrastructuring process, which may be appropriate in some workplace settings with clear organisational and project goals. In other situationssuch as a local organic food community [4] -the tailoring and appropriation decisions combined with different internal and external forces, ultimately leads towards a new understanding of the needs of the community, and so, to a new process of infrastructuring. As will be clarified later, while the Commonfare project shares some characteristics of an organisational IT infrastructure project in terms of goals and deadlines agreed upon as part of its funding, the use of participatory design presents a need to adapt and respond to participation of individuals and groups, and their situations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We draw on the concepts of strategies and tactics [12], which Bødker et al [4] introduce in the context of infrastructuring projects as a lens through which to understand the source and impact of decisions made by a social aggregate engaged in parallel infrastructuring activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The work of Bødker et al [4] applies these concepts of strategies and tactics within the context of a local community in Denmark, focusing on the ways in which different people act within the community over a period of years, and the different motivations and decisions that are made as a result of changing circumstances. Their analysis is based on a self-organised community, not bound by expectations from a funding body, and that allowed for an ad-hoc, flexible approach [4,5,6], where the community members themselves conducted the infrastructuring work, developing tools for themselves.…”

Section: Strategies and Tacticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their analysis is based on a self-organised community, not bound by expectations from a funding body, and that allowed for an ad-hoc, flexible approach [4,5,6], where the community members themselves conducted the infrastructuring work, developing tools for themselves. Regarding infrastructuring, it is indeed possible to go beyond the locally rooted and self-organised community to refer to dispersed populations interested in similar issues.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Approximately the first year of design and development activities as part of the Commonfare project serve as our case, as we apply the theoretical lens of strategies and tactics, articulated by de Certeau [9] in the context of infrastructuring studies (e.g. [4,29]), to understand the different plans and actions that have been taken. We refer to infrastructuring, and not just infrastructure, in line with previous work focusing not on "being" of infrastructure, but to the more ecological viewpoint of "becoming" an infrastructure [44].…”

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Fostering Commonfare. Infrastructuring Autonomous Social Collaboration

Lyle¹,

Sciannamblo²,

Teli³

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Recently, HCI scholars have started questioning the relationship between computing and political economy, with both general analyses of such relationships, and specific design cases describing design interventions. This paper contributes to this stream of reflections, and argues that IT designers and HCI scholars can critically engage with the contemporary phase of capitalism by infrastructuring the emergence of new institutional forms of autonomous social collaboration through IT projects. More specifically, we discuss strategies and tactics that are available for IT designers embracing an activist agenda while infrastructuring autonomous social collaborations. We draw on empirical data from an H2020 EU funded project -Commonfare -that seeks to foster the emergence of alternative forms of welfare provision rooted in social collaboration. In this context, we discuss how the necessary multiple relations that unfold in a project with such ambitions shape both the language and the technologies of the project itself.

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Fostering Commonfare. Infrastructuring Autonomous Social Collaboration

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Sciannamblo²,

Teli³

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Understanding Nomadic Practices of Social Activist Networks Through the Lens of Infrastructuring: the Case of the European Social Forum

Carvalho

Saeed

Reuter

et al. 2022

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Within CSCW and HCI, an increasing body of literature has been demonstrating the essential relevance of infrastructures and infrastructuring to the work of people engaging in technologically mediated nomadicity. Tech Nomads – or T-Nomads, as they are sometimes called – not only rely on technological, human, and environmental infrastructural components – such as Wi-Fi, technical support, space, and basic resources such as light and power outlets – but they also have to engage in infrastructuring to mobilise their workplaces and effectively accomplish work in and across different locations. In this article, we bring an infrastructuring perspective to understanding nomadic practices concerning the organisation of complex collaborative events. We introduce findings from a long-term investigation focusing on how infrastructures are re-instantiated with the help of digital technologies, according to emerging demands from T-Nomads. Our findings demonstrate the need for a ‘non-essentialist’ approach to nomadicity, one which recognises the character of nomadic work and its varied aspects in different contexts. We extend the infrastructuring literature by demonstrating how infrastructuring work is done in a complex collaborative initiative, as the organisation of the annual European Social Forum.

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Learning from Other Communities: Organising Collective Action in a Grassroots Food-sharing Initiative

Berns

Rossitto

Tholander

2023

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This paper illustrates the work of creating, infrastructuring, and organising a food-sharing community from the ground up. Drawing on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and a three-year engagement with FoodSharing Stockholm, the paper shows how the processes of starting up a grassroots initiative are shaped by participants’ direct experience and knowledge of similar initiatives. The analysis draws attention to: (1) how central activities such as recruiting volunteers, choosing digital tools, and establishing partnerships with food donors are conceived and organised, (2) the concrete challenges of sharing surplus food, such as adopting a distribution model, and negotiating fairness, and (3) how governance and decision-making models are adopted and (re)negotiated over time. The paper introduces the term Collective histories of organising to capture the impact that learning from previous experiences can have on communities’ efforts to set up and run; and re-orient design visions towards the consideration and adoption of existing sociotechnical practices, rather than always aiming at novel digital explorations. We outline three emerging dimensions that can characterise “Collective histories of organising” as a concept, (1) configuring capacities, (2) configuring sociotechnical practices, and (3) configuring participation. The paper contributes practical sensitivities to build, sustain, and infrastructure surplus food-sharing initiatives, where these three dimensions are discussed as central concerns designers and other food-sharing communities could learn from.

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Happenstance, Strategies and Tactics

Cited by 27 publications

References 12 publications

Fostering Commonfare. Infrastructuring Autonomous Social Collaboration

Fostering Commonfare. Infrastructuring Autonomous Social Collaboration

Understanding Nomadic Practices of Social Activist Networks Through the Lens of Infrastructuring: the Case of the European Social Forum

Learning from Other Communities: Organising Collective Action in a Grassroots Food-sharing Initiative

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