Decentralization means something different to everyone but what does it mean to you? Join the Decentralization Off The Shelf (DOTS) team in a search for meanings in the decentralized world through creativity and the art of zine-making. This workshop is suitable for designers, developers, learners, and anyone who is curious about how the world functions and wishes to tell their stories.
The workshop consists of three parts:
- DOTS interpretation of decentralization and a short introduction to zine-making
- Zine-making: A collective interpretation of ‘decentralization’ and individual workspace
- Online exhibition: Learning and sharing
The workshop will be conducted via Miro and Zoom.
We will divide the participants into groups of 4-5 people.
What is the goal and/or outcome of your session?:Participants will learn how to make zines and explain complicated technology in simple terms.
In addition, the workshop will enable the DOTS team to learn more about the challenge of onboarding average and non-tech/design users to the decentralized world. Materials collected from the workshop can be re-distributed as collective explanatory resources about decentralization.
We have an existing community that participants can be invited to.
Ngọc is a design researcher at Simply Secure whose works explore the possibilities of design in imagining the future of the worlds through lenses such as decoloniality and decentralization.
Karissa McKelvey is an engineering professional, public interest technologist, and researcher working with human rights defenders.