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Erewhon Project, supported by CIAC, featured in Global Cultures of Contestation, Mobility, Sustainability, Aesthetics & Connectivity

The Erehwon Project, led by CIAC collaborator, Beatriz Cantinho, is presented in the chapter Erehwon: The Digital Platform for Empowering Sociopolitical Interventions in Public Space included in the book Global Cultures of Contestation, Mobility, Sustainability, Aesthetics & Connectivity, published in 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

In this chapter the Erewhon project is presented, a work-in-progress practice-led research project that aims to create a digital commons space and platform for connecting and supporting communities of people who initiate sociopolitical interventions in public space. The platform consists of an interactive cartography of these types of projects, co-designed through a series of workshops with different communities of interest in a way that offers to their projects different forms of visibility. It also allows the viewer to trace, in the visualization, a project’s progress, its contaminations, size, collaborations, and duration, and its interconnections with the other projects. This chapter describes the theoretical framework, discusses the research and design methodology, and presents and reflects on the outcomes of the practical research.

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