Community wealth: Co-creating digital infrastructure for economic justice

In this talk, I’ll explore how communities can harness digital tools to build shared wealth and challenge economic inequality. Drawing from feminist economics, community-based economies, and human-computer interaction design, I’ll discuss innovative design methods that empower local participation and promote fairness. We’ll dive into how cooperative values and ethical practices in digital design can lead to more inclusive and just economic systems. Join me in exploring ideas for creating digital infrastructures that not only serve communities but also drive meaningful change in how we design and use technology.

About the speaker:

Larisa Blazic is a PhD student at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City, University of London. As a digital artisan, educator and feminist hacker with a practice ranging from the net.art to Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) art and design, she focuses on emerging technologies and their impact on online publishing, moving image in public space, collective creativity and participation through work exhibited nationally, internationally and online. Her current research explores how collaborative and cooperative funding platforms may be co-designed and developed to enable communities to manage resources for collective benefit in fair, inclusive, sustainable and accountable ways. A selection of her work can be found at http://e-w-n-s.net