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Solidarity Infrastructures

Teachers

Alice Yuan Zhang, Meghna Mahadevan, Oren Robinson

Date

Section 1: January 22, 2024 to March 25, 2024
Section 2: January 25, 2024 to March 28, 2024
(10 classes)

Time

Section 1: Mondays, 7-9pm ET Section 2: Thursdays, 12-2pm ET

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How do we cultivate infrastructures of solidarity with each other, especially under conditions of crisis, protest, and systemic inequity? Beyond corporate data clouds and monopolistic service providers, this class offer critical space to reframe technology from a grassroots perspective in relation to other components of day-to-day societal infrastructure. We will explore concepts like the slow web, organic Internet, right-to-repair, data sovereignty, minimal computing and anti-computing, in context of the intersectional Just Transition movement. Get to know how community tech and cultural organizing go hand-in-hand through real-world case studies. Learn about the creative applications and underlying ideologies of various open source tools and network topologies. Tune into signals of radical communication beyond colonialist legibility. Along the way, we aim to challenge the technocapitalist worldview, breaking the dichotomy of "high" and "low" tech in favor of a needs-based approach that centers collectivist values and the Earth. Over the course of the class, participants will develop technical skills for running a situated server practice and learn from each others' experiences. Each participant is encouraged to apply the idea of "computing in place" to their own locale through a creative project which may range from a small poetic experiment, to archiving personal and familial stories, to collaborating with the neighborhood library, community garden, elderly home, or mutual aid coalition. As creative practitioners, we will direct our imaginative power toward experimenting with refusal, repair, responsibility, and reconnection in order to dream into practice the relational infrastructures we need.

Images courtesy of teachers.

Outcomes

Projects (1)

July 4, 2024

Solidarity Infrastructures Website

Blog Posts (1)

June 13, 2024

Solidarity Infrastructures Amidst Intifada

Course of Study

Reclaiming our technological imagination: low-tech, folk tech, craft, and alternative futuring

How does the internet work? Intro to networking and the internet stack

Community tech, neighborhood politics, and socially-engaged arts

Baby's first libre software service: innoculating a Pi, learning to SSH, hosting a website, apps, and more

Locality, embodiment, and other antidotes to infrastructural abstraction

How network topologies shape our social fabric and vice versa

What do we actually need? Offline-first, analog networks, and appropriate tech

Sovereign software and the commons

Do It With Others: labor, maintenance, and longevity

Materiality of computing, lifecycle analysis, and technological grief

Radical signals, rogue frequencies, and speculative possibilities for liberatory communications

Expectations

Time & Workload

Participants can expect to spend no more than 2 hours outside of class each week on class readings and assignments. Each participant is invited to develop a situated infrastructural intervention over the course of the class, with the option to apply technical skills for server hosting that we will learn together. This requires being proactive with researching the needs of a community that is specific to you, and establishing or deepening relations with collaborators.

Technical Experience

Any technical experience is welcome but not required.

Learning Outcomes

Together we will develop:

Critical perspectives on digital and societal infrastructures based on feminist, decolonial, and ecocentric theorists and practitioners

Practical experience working with a community of your choice to initiate, steward and maintain a context-specific infrastructure project

Technical skills for running a situated server practice, including the basics of the command line and system administration, as well as libre-software services

Knowledge about software frameworks and tools made with the purpose of building and maintaining community infrastructure (such as yunohost, coop-cloud, and servers.coop)

Knowledge about basic networking and the layers of the internet stack (such as IP addresses, DNS, ISPs and mesh networks)

An expansive view across communication mediums (such as radio, LoRa, echolocation, and pigeon networks)

Knowledge about the material and energy costs of computing

Ongoing supportive relationships with fellow community tech practitioners

Is this class for me?

This class may be for you if:

You are curious about what a grassroots approach to technology might look like

You see yourself as a weaver, maintainer, or network poet

You often find yourself asking WWMD ("What would mycelium do?")

You have a feeling there's more to decentralization than blockchain

You want to develop or deepen relations with your community of service

You want to host a server on local hardware

You like to trace where everything comes from and where it goes

This class may NOT be for you if:

You are not interested in a collaborative or community-engaged creative practice

You are looking for the one-size-fits-all technological solution

You'd rather not be the one to help clean up after dinner

Meet the Teachers

teacher Alice Yuan Zhang: Alice Yuan Zhang 张元 is a Chinese-American media artist, researcher, and cultural organizer based in Los Angeles. Her transdisciplinary practice operates on cyclical and intergenerational time. Along the peripheries of colonialist imagination, she works to bring technology down to earth by devising collective experiments in ancestral remembering, interspecies pedagogy, and networked solidarity.

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teacher Meghna Mahadevan: Rooted in Kerala, Inspired by Oakland, Born, Raised, and Residing in Atlanta, GA, Meghna Mahadevan is a community technologist, in the terms of technology as a range of tools for human progress. They experiment with building programs, initiatives, relationships, and creations as a way to make meaning of the world around them and as a practice of hope for the future. Meghna’s projects range from organizing for larger movements of technology justice, multimedia storytelling via sound and photography, gathering people together, collective building, djing QTBIPOC+ parties in the South, and investigating autonomous technology infrastructure outside the US. Meghna has co-founded two collectives, intent on relational based methods to organizing, synthesizing, and visioning. Their work has been featured in protocol, NPR, Balamii Radio, Lower Grand Radio, LA Times, and more. Meghna has a degree in industrial engineering from georgia tech with a focus on computer science. They enjoy spending time with friends, exploring hinduism through a queer abolitionist lens, and dancing at all times of the day and night.

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teacher Oren Robinson: Oren Robinson is an artist, coder, and student of critical pedagogy and mutual aid practices towards solidarity economies and collective liberation living on stolen Kumeyaay land.

they/any · website · twitter · instagram

How do I apply?

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Applications open until Applications closed on November 22, 2023.

You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on December 11, 2023. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.

How much does it cost to attend?

For 10 classes, it costs $1200 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.

SFPC processes all payments via Withfriends and Stripe. Please email admissions@sfpc.study if these payment options don't work for you.

Applicant FAQ

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Winter 2024

4 classes

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with Jeffrey Yoo Warren and Dri Chiu Tattersfield⁣

January 20 - March 23, 2024 ·Online (Zoom) ·Applications closed

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Instruments of the Black Gooey Universe

with American Artist, Zainab Aliyu, Taylor Levy and Che-Wei Wang

January 21 - March 24, 2024 ·In-Person NYC ·Applications closed

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HTTPoetics

with Todd Anderson, Kayla Drzewicki and Tyler Yin

January 22 - March 28, 2024·Online (Zoom) ·Applications closed

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Solidarity Infrastructures

with Alice Yuan Zhang, Meghna Mahadevan and Oren Robinson

January 22 - March 28, 2024 ·Online (Zoom) ·Applications closed

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