Digital Guild 2025–2026 Process: open session to the public

What happens when we bring a social network into the street and make it collective? Can we build a platform where neighbors decide what is seen, who organizes it, and who owns what we share? These are some of the questions we have been exploring over the course of this year.

Through Digital Guild 25/26, we have promoted a line of research focused on creating sustained spaces for debate around the social networks and apps we use every day. Throughout the process, we have critically examined the neoliberal technocapitalism embedded in proprietary platforms, technofeudalism, the viral spread of hate speech, and the mechanisms of control operating through algorithms, terms and conditions of use, and digital policies. But we have not stopped at diagnosis alone: we are imagining alternatives that place sovereignty, rights, and communities at the center.

This journey has led us to begin developing a prototype: the Digital Kiosk, a collective communication device that takes over the street in order to place it in the service of the neighborhood, an interface that brings the social network to the place where things actually happen and reclaims public space in order to displace advertising saturation and individualistic consumption.

At this moment, we are in an initial phase. The prototype is beginning to take shape, but many meetings still lie ahead to define its development, functionalities, and policies of use. Now we want to open up the process in order to share the work carried out so far and to bring these and other still-open questions to the table.

Activitat impulsada pel Gremi de Digitalització 25/26: Xeito Fole i Rodrigo Yrigoyen Gonzales