Offray Luna

"how can we change the digital tools that change us?" github

My name is Offray Luna. I have a foot in academia, with undergrad studies are on informatics-mathematics, masters on education and PhD on design and creation and a foot on hacktivism as a funding member of the HackBo local hackerspace in 2010 and early activist for the Free/Libre culture movement (here is a small profile of me). Also I do consulting in places where design, cognition/education and data/visualization intertwine with communities of practice and institutions. In such combination of endeavors and interest my inquiries are related with "how can we change the digital tools that change us?". For that, my hypothesis is to introduce highly self-referential digital systems inside communities and I developed Grafoscopio as a prototype to experiment/communicate such hypothesis and build other related prototypes. I would like to see if GToolkit can be the base for building the next phase of Grafoscopio[*] and its related prototypes with our diverse community (which includes hacktivists, feminists, editors and self-publishers, researchers, designers and artists, among others) to continue the exploration about the reciprocal modification of digital tools and the communities around them, particularly in the context of amplifying civic voices and the commons and dealing with the complex issues we face in our times. My expectations and dreams are related with self-referential (meta)systems to change communities (like GToolkit/Pharo) and my particular concerns are related with how can we bridge the futures we want with the present we have, for example in the context of tools like Grafoscopio, GToolkit and their related and interconnected communities. [*]: I wrote a bliki (blog+wiki) entry about my evaluation of GToolkit.