Convergence of Commoners Retreat

Researching "Political" User Experiences and affect (T4.1 Inspire)

In this session, we explore how affects influence and shape digital architectural processes, transcending the hierarchical organization of its agents (bottom-up & top-down). However, neither of these approaches, nor their combinations, proves adequate to promote a trend that, due to wicked problems, inherently involves an affective connection with individuals, other entities, and the planet

We propose a path where digital architectures can disrupt the bottom-up and top-down dualities based on the attributes that shape them, as it is the affects that permeate all human and more-than-human bodies. If digital platforms are machines of interaction, extending their heterogeneous networks beyond their immediate users, we need to address the movement of affects so that digital architectures become tools for coexistence on an already wounded planet.