[ecrea] Journal of Peer Production #11: CITY

The new special issue of the Journal of Peer Production on CITY is 
published!

http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-11-city

It showcases a wide variety of case studies in cities from different 
geographies of the Global North and Global South namely *Barcelona, 
Berlin, Brisbane, Brussels, Ciudad Juárez, Dhaka, Genoa, London, 
Melbourne, Milan, New York, Paris, Rosario. *

Some of those case studies focus more on peer production technologies 
and others more on the social and political processes on the ground, all 
with different research methodologies and approaches. They invite us to 
reflect  on various forms of peer production of knowledge and 
representation of the city as a commons, where technology should be 
considered as both a tool (infrastructure) and a contested space. They 
look at challenges of governance focusing on citizen-driven models of 
peer production in the city where local governments are called to be in 
dialogue and build synergies with different stakeholder communities. 
They use participatory and collaborative methods to collect their data 
following co-creative research approaches. They are transdisciplinary as 
much as interdisciplinary in both the methodological and theoretical 
approaches taken by contributors who merge together urban studies, 
architecture, informatics, political and social sciences, and 
ethnography to name a few. The authors collaborated directly - as 
activists or through their research with other activists, communities 
and/or stakeholders- giving voice to all those involved in the making 
and sharing of those projects.

In numbers, there are *eight case study research papers* which have been 
peer-reviewed and revised through the particularly transparent review 
process of JoPP (i.e. for each of the peer-reviewed papers the 
originally submitted version, the reviews and the final feedback of 
reviewers on the revised version are made public) and *four experimental 
contributions* that have been reviewed by the special issue editors. The 
experimental pieces follow a less rigorous and more playful format, an 
interview with commentary, a dialogue, a call for participation, and an 
open-ended online article. They all invite us, the readers, to follow up 
their stories in dedicated online venues, or even in face-to-face 
meetings, and participate in the form of peer production that they 
advocate for.

Along similar endeavours opening up to possibility and hope in the midst 
of uncertainty, these twelve stories of peer production, most of them 
positive and encouraging, document and analyse different forms of 
citizen engagement and participation. They are good examples of situated 
action that can provide inspiration and eventually help to build tools, 
toolkits, best practices, patterns, and methodologies. As editors, we 
learned a great deal while putting together these contributions, all 
different in style, context, and methodology. We hope that they will 
prove inspiring and empowering for all readers as well to engage as 
citizens-activists, co-creators, insurgent architects, who appropriate 
and contextualise urban technologies and materialities to serve local 
collective needs.


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