project : lumbung.space

lumbung.space

description

Lumbung.space = 1. a hangout space, digital living room 2. a publishing tool (for video, music, books, social media) 3. a library, learning center 4. pantry (storage) as a shared resource between the lumbung inter-lokal 5. takes care of the user’s privacy and is aware of their political vulnerability 6. slow growing and to be unstable is part of the deal 7. is an initiative for a community-governed digital platform

lumbung.space is an experimental social and publishing platform by and for the lumbung artists and lumbung members. It is a (digital) living room for the collective lumbung building process that allows us to connect, support each other, and also share knowledge collectively. lumbung.space built on open platforms, cooperative governance, and as a community infrastructure meant for our practices to develop and thrive. As a project, lumbung.space is an experiment for artist-initiated digital platforms and part of the process towards documenta fifteen. It is a space for learning: we are trying to find out what a social platform for a lumbung practice looks like; as we recognize that we don't want our practices to be subject to, or dependent upon extractive, exploitative digital infrastructures. Making lumbung.space to be a platform that is owned and operated by the community of users themselves (not a service that is run by a corporation). With such a gesture, the economic sustainability model of lumbung.space is exciting to be explored and researched further, as after documenta—the strive is for lumbung.space to be sustained as a shared resource for the lumbung inter-lokal by caring for it based on these mutually agreed values shared within the community guideline document.

lumbung.space was conceptualized and developed together with Roel Roscam Abbing, an artist and doctoral candidate in Interaction Design at Malmö University and Autonomic Co-op. Their work for lumbung.space is part of the Co-op Cloud initiative, a set of reusable recipes for installing libre software, which allows other collectives to set up similar digital infrastructure.