From Rules in Use to Culture in Use: Commoning and Infrastructuring Practices in an Open Cultural Movement

Abstract

"This paper explores how design and commoning practices can contribute to sustaining open cultural commons and guarding against enclosure. Based on a long-term engagement with a cultural movement, the author examines how design activities can strengthen int eraction and participation in commons -­‐ like frameworks, and describes commoning and instrastructuring practices that can support commons culture. By critically reflecting on the development of a local Finnish chapter of the OpenGLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) movement, the paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of design as infrastructuring in complex and open-ended socio-technical settings."