The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest

Drawing on feminist, decolonial and intersectional analysis, The Institute for Technology in The Public Interest (TITiPI) has been studying how infrastructural shifts are changing institutional conditions that impact feminist organising and the lives of marginalised communities including people of color, women, trans and non-binary people. TITiPI is a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists initiated by Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting. Together we convene communities to hold computational infrastructures to account and to create spaces for articulating what technologies in the “public interest” might be when “public interest” is always in-the-making. We develop tools from feminisms, queer theory, computation, intersectionality, anti-coloniality, disability studies, historical materialism and artistic practice to generate currently inexistant vocabularies, imaginaries and methodologies. TITiPI functions as an infrastructure to intensify these practices and to establish new ways in which policy making around technology is organized in the public interest. (2022)

Publications

• Jara Rocha, A Catalogue of Formats for Digital Discomfort, eds. Seda Gürses and Jara Rocha, Feb 2021, PDF. [1]

• Infrables, Brussels: The Institute for Technology In the Public Interest, May 2022, 30 pp, PDF, PDF.

• Infrastructural Interactions: Survival, Resistance and Radical Care, eds. Helen V Pritchard, and Femke Snelting, Brussels: The Institute for Technology In the Public Interest, Nov 2022, 83 pp, PDF, PDF. Wiki. Toot.

• Counter Cloud Action Plan, Brussels: The Institute for Technology In the Public Interest, Nov 2022, 35 pp, PDF, PDF. Toot.

• Complicit Chips: A Reader in Progress for Infra-Resistance, Brussels, Oct 2024, PDF. Event. Toot.

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Links

• https://titipi.org/

• https://titipi.org/wiki

• https://post.lurk.org/@titipi (Mastodon)