Designing for Shared Ownership with Rashid Owoyele: A FLOX Community Jam
Rashid Owoyele (they/them) is a Nigerian-American Transdisciplinary Designer and Social Innovation expert. Rashid's work explores the implications of cooperative principles in the future networked society – including platform cooperativism and the conditions conducive to distributed ownership of ethical production. Join us as we discuss democratisation of technology through 'glocal' communities, how scientific research and social innovation interact, and more!
Rashid is a senior-level consultant in social innovation and has taught students in 8 countries from interdisciplinary backgrounds in courses and professional programs.
Keep in touch with Rashid
Rashid Owoyele (they/them), Transdisciplinary Designer and Social Innovation expert
Website: https://www.drlab.org/team/rashid-owoyele/
Critical Maker Culture’ interdisciplinary research group at the UdK Berlin / Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society: https://www.drlab.org/project/critical-maker-culture/
RESOURCES (goodies shared during the chat)
Barbara Smith and The Combahee River Collective -
Echoing Green Fellowship - https://echoinggreen.org/fellowship/
Ashoka (encyclopedia of social innovation) - https://www.ashoka.org/en-us
Guerrilla Translation - Guerrilla Translation is an activist translation and general communications collective. Our high quality translations are made by thoughtful humans, not software. - https://www.guerrillatranslation.org/
DisCo Co-Op - DisCOs are a commons-oriented, feminist, cooperative way for people to work together
Elinor Ostrom - Ostrom received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her groundbreaking research demonstrating that ordinary people are capable of creating rules and institutions that allow for the sustainable and equitable management of shared resources. - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2009/ostrom/biographical/
The narrative of “find your purpose” leaves out the ‘how’
Community focuses on retention and development of people (not just their talent), instead of commodifying employees