Digital Kiosk: a social network in public space

The Digitalisation Guild of Santa Mónica presents the first public prototyping laboratory of the Digital Kiosk.

The proposal arises from the need to collectively think about and create important questions, such as the filtering and ownership of the content we share, user profiles, and the terms and conditions of use of this community social network. In this session, an initial idea of the prototype is presented to test it and reflect together on the issues of concern, as well as its implementation, in order to collectively imagine the possibilities and considerations of its development and use in the public space.

How can we recover digital sovereignty in urban space? How can we imagine new public digital devices? Based on these and other questions, the project is conceived to address urgent issues arising from the use of private digital platforms and devices, such as their centralization, censorship, the lack of sovereignty over users’ information, dependence on technology corporations, and the practices of social networks regarding privacy and personal data.

The Digital Kiosk is a proposal for a social digital device located in public space, conceived as an alternative to dominant social media platforms, enabling and facilitating both in-person and digital interactions among neighbors and local community groups.

Activity promoted by the Digitalization Guild 25/26: XeitoFole and Rodrigo Yrigoyen Gonzales

With the participation of Antoine Silvestre

Antoine Silvestre is an architect, philosopher, and member of the research collective Espectros de lo Urbano. After graduating in Architecture from the National School of Architecture of Strasbourg in 2007, he worked as an independent architect until 2013. He obtained a Master’s degree in Citizenship and Human Rights: Ethics and Politics in 2015. He has carried out research and pedagogical activities on the relationship between urbanism and colonial politics, as well as on the predatory processes of capitalism.