Post-Digital Workshops In Co-Creation And Co-Design

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Re: generative MAH 2025, 11th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Colombia

Rosser, Laura (2024) Post-Digital Workshops In Co-Creation And Co-Design. In: Re: generative MAH 2025, 11th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Colombia, 2-9th May 2025, Bogotá and Manizales Columbia. (Unpublished)

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Abstract / Summary

“…the machine is always social before it is technical.” (Deleuze, 1988, p.34)

This paper examines the potential of workshopping to explore post-digital perspectives on technology and co-creation. We discuss two projects—hotwire~ and Copy Copy Shop—that emphasise hands-on engagement with materials and media, renewing and preserving tools and practices through ‘t(h)inkering’ (Huhtamo, 2010) in a spirit of permacomputing (Mansoux et al., 2023).

hotwire~ (2009-present), an arts collective initiated by David Strang and Andrew Prior, uses t(h)inkering—the dual practice of thinking through tinkering and vice versa. Participants repurpose and reconfigure signs, signals, and technologies, revealing new possibilities and fostering inventive connections. These critical practices encourage interrogation and play with low-powered technologies (Dunbar-Hester, 2014), empowering participants to become reflective makers, menders, and custodians of material practices.

Laura Rosser’s Copy Copy Shop (2020/2024) reimagines the traditional photocopy shop, creating a space to collectively reframe our relationship with print technologies and culture (Ludovico, 2012). It priorities live, errant, and relational co-creation of open knowledge and shared labour (Gulli, 2019) over accurate reproduction. By tinkering with printers and affordable single-board computers, the project moves away from conventions of accuracy, logic, and order.

These projects illustrate how post-digital workshops can cultivate vibrant, self-sustaining communities of practice focused on: DIWO (doing it with others) as opposed to DIY (Garrett, 2013); open knowledge of old and new technologies instead of mere consumption; and championing circular dynamics through the preservation of tools and critical practice.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Post-digital, DiWo, Workshopping, Liveness, Print, T(h)inkering
Subjects: Art History & Theory
Creative Art & Design > Fine Art
Department: Falmouth School of Art
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Depositing User: Laura Rosser
Date Deposited: 31 Jul 2025 13:38
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2025 13:38
URI: https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/6120
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