Panayotis Antoniadis, nethood, Zürich
Community Servers: Bringing Community Networks to the Ground
As digital and physical space become more and more intertwined,
commoning strategies in these domains require collaborations across
different disciplines and fields of action. This methodology builds on a
specific case study developing local applications for a community
network in rural Greece and identifies four key processes on community
building, digital space, physical space, and project management run by
teams with different backgrounds and expertise. It proposes the
visualization of selected threads of actions along these different
processes on a “project score”, which evokes an analogy with a music
score. Members of the different teams are encouraged to regularly mark
their past and planned actions on the score and reflect on their
relationships and interdependencies trying to develop a common
understanding and language, similarly to a jazz improvisation. The
booklet includes a set of “methodkit” cards representing a possible set
of threads of action for each process as a starting point, and examples
of suggested actions for each thread based on the experience from this
specific case study. A collaborative online environment for documenting
experiences in different case studies is under construction at
https://nethood.org/studio.