Abstract

This paper tells the story of Decide Madrid (Decide), a civic tech platform designed by Madrid’s municipality in 2015 in the spirit of the autonomous and hacker philosophies that spearheaded the Spanish Occupy or 15M movement. We develop a biographical account of Decide to show how the design of the platform was modified over the course of four years to accommodate shifting ideas of how digital infrastructures can channel, both online and offline, the social energies and technical rationalities of political participation. In particular, we identify three design assemblages of democratic participation: the public, the libre and the commons, whose orientations and configurations sometimes share, and sometimes diffract, different logics, logistics and locations of where and how democracy ought to be activated in the digital age. We further show how over time these modulations cultivated a view of democratic culture as an experimental process.

摘要

本文讲述了Decide Madrid (Decide)的故事，这是马德里市政府在 2015 年本着引领西班牙占领或 15M 运动的自治和黑客哲学的精神设计的一个公民技术平台。我们开发了Decide的传记展示平台的设计在四年的时间里是如何修改的，以适应数字基础设施如何在线和离线引导政治参与的社会能量和技术合理性的不断变化的想法。特别是，我们确定了民主参与的三种设计组合：公众、自由和公地，它们的方向和配置有时共享，有时又不同，不同的逻辑、后勤和位置，即民主应该在何处以及如何在数字中被激活年龄。我们进一步展示了这些调制如何随着时间的推移培养了一种将民主文化视为实验过程的观点。