Sarah Wong
@sarahwong
Sarah Wong
- Design for “crowding in” over “crowding out”
from 🎙️🌍 How we're building with international public broadcasters
- How can we use tech to develop more informal place-based ties? As we spend more of our time online, how can we make virtual space for social capital to form?
- accountability through celebration.
we are still just talking about how people relate to one another.
from Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life by Nathan Schneider
- Neighbor Teams are groups of five that meet regularly to support each other. They will watch each other's kids. They will bring each other food. They will visit each other in the hospital. We give those teams $300 a month to convene and gather. They often start financial pooling plans that we match. They put together a $500 pot, which we match to m... See more
- Mutual aid has been ubiquitous in indigenous communities and examples can be found throughout history such as medieval craft guilds, American fraternity societies that existed during the Great Depression (providing health and life insurance and funeral benefits). In more recent times, mutual aid organizations, projects and initiatives have formed a... See more
from Designing for Transitions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
“Everyday politics involves people embracing, complying with, adjusting, and contesting norms and rules regarding authority over, production of, or allocation of resources
from Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life by Nathan Schneider
- A much more humane, and ultimately more appropriate, approach would be to treat our relationships and communities, as well as the benefits we receive from them, not as a form of wealth, but as gifts. They are received, not chosen; valued but not earned; given but not traded; appreciated but not capitalized. They have an inherent, unquantifiable val... See more
from The Relationship Is the Richness
along with political skills, the production of alternatives must involve dimensions of ritual, devotional commitments, and structures of belief.
from Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life by Nathan Schneider