Welcome! You are not alone
Before doomscrolling and dead internet theory became a thing, the internet used to be a place of promise, excitement, and possibility. Surfing the web could be compared to urban flânerie: a surrender to the unexpected, drifting from website to website, from link to link. Serendipitous moments of discovery were free from the aura of suspicion that plagues today’s algorithmically enhanced social media experience (“why am I being shown this content?”), and felt earned, turning linksharing into an act of kinship and community-building.
(W)HOLE shows how, underneath the current desolated surface, the promise of a better digital world is still alive. Understanding the workings and trappings of digital infrastructure is an important first step to revive and fulfill this promise. In the repository, you will find a carefully curated list of initiatives, tools, and resources that aim to study, critique and improve our shared online reality. We invite you to get lost, to find things you didn’t know you were looking for, and to connect with new friends and communities – for the only way to free ourselves from this clusterf*ck, is to do it together.
Welcome! You are not alone
Before doomscrolling and dead internet theory became a thing, the internet used to be a place of promise, excitement, and possibility. Surfing the web could be compared to urban flânerie: a surrender to the unexpected, drifting from website to website, from link to link. Serendipitous moments of discovery were free from the aura of suspicion that plagues today’s algorithmically enhanced social media experience (“why am I being shown this content?”), and felt earned, turning linksharing into an act of kinship and community-building.
(W)HOLE shows how, underneath the current desolated surface, the promise of a better digital world is still alive. Understanding the workings and trappings of digital infrastructure is an important first step to revive and fulfill this promise. In the repository, you will find a carefully curated list of initiatives, tools, and resources that aim to study, critique and improve our shared online reality. We invite you to get lost, to find things you didn’t know you were looking for, and to connect with new friends and communities – for the only way to free ourselves from this clusterf*ck, is to do it together.
Psyche – Use Mediation Techniques to Overcome Anger and Blame
Psyche – Use Mediation Techniques to Overcome Anger and Blame
Summary
A psychology-based guide teaching mediation as a practice of empathy and conflict resolution, relevant to online and offline community spaces.
Symbols Glossarium – Qui Absurdum
Symbols Glossarium – Qui Absurdum
Summary
An evolving digital glossary that reinterprets and deconstructs contemporary symbols, merging visual culture, semiotics, and poetic critique to expose cultural and algorithmic systems of meaning.
Soft Glossary
Soft Glossary
Summary
A collaborative, ever-evolving glossary that reimagines technical and cultural terms through softness, care, and relational thinking, inviting communities to co-define language and reshape shared understanding.
The Sustainable Institution – Symposium, Residency & Toolkit
The Sustainable Institution – Symposium, Residency & Toolkit
Summary
International project for greener cultural institutions: a symposium series, artist residency, and open toolkit. In partnership with E-WERK Luckenwalde, LUMA Arles, and Rupert.
How to Begin Designing for Diversity – The Creative Independent
How to Begin Designing for Diversity – The Creative Independent
Summary
A practical and reflective guide on building inclusive design processes that center difference, accessibility, and care as core creative values.
Human Resource Machine – Tomorrow Corporation
Human Resource Machine – Tomorrow Corporation
Summary
A puzzle game where players automate office tasks using visual code, exposing the logic of labor automation and prompting reflection on work, efficiency, and the dehumanizing tendencies of computation.
Working with Autistic, Transgender, and Nonbinary People (JKP)
Working with Autistic, Transgender, and Nonbinary People (JKP)
Summary
A practical guide supporting inclusive work with autistic and gender-diverse individuals. It offers intersectional approaches for mental health, social spaces, and community care.
Stacks, Platforms, Interfaces: A Field Guide to Information Spaces
Stacks, Platforms, Interfaces: A Field Guide to Information Spaces
Summary
A detailed lecture and resource guide mapping how information systems – from global stacks to local interfaces – shape power, governance, access, and public knowledge within contemporary digital infrastructures.
The Meaning of Creativity in the Age of AI
The Meaning of Creativity in the Age of AI
Summary
Academic event exploring how artificial intelligence redefines creativity, authorship, and human agency within cultural and artistic production.
Ableist Words and Terms to Avoid – Autistic Hoya
Ableist Words and Terms to Avoid – Autistic Hoya
Summary
A comprehensive guide identifying ableist language in everyday use, offering alternatives and insights to promote inclusivity, awareness, and disability justice in communication.
The Collaboration Cookbook
The Collaboration Cookbook
Summary
A practical guide offering methods, exercises, and frameworks for building trust, empathy, and effective collaboration in collective and creative projects.
Gaia Education – Resources
Gaia Education – Resources
Summary
An educational platform offering resources on ecological design, regenerative economies, and community-based approaches to sustainability and social transformation.
I Am AI – Educational Portal on Artificial Intelligence
I Am AI – Educational Portal on Artificial Intelligence
Summary
An educational resource explaining artificial intelligence through clear tutorials, diagrams, and interactive lessons, helping broad audiences understand how AI works and how it shapes society.
Secure Messaging Apps (comparison)
Secure Messaging Apps (comparison)
Summary
A comparative guide evaluating popular messaging apps by their security features, encryption models, data practices, and trustworthiness, helping users make informed choices about private communication.
Consent Decision-Making – Sociocracy For All
Consent Decision-Making – Sociocracy For All
Summary
A clear introduction to the sociocratic method of consent-based decision-making, offering practical guidance and tools that help groups collaborate fairly, share power, and build inclusive governance.
CO2.js – Calculate digital carbon in 5 minutes (Green Web Foundation)
CO2.js – Calculate digital carbon in 5 minutes (Green Web Foundation)
Summary
Open-source JS library to estimate website/app emissions from energy use and grid intensity. Quick-start steps, methods, and examples to add carbon metrics to dashboards or CI.
What Can I Do? (climate actions)
What Can I Do? (climate actions)
Summary
A practical climate-action guide offering accessible steps individuals can take across daily life, highlighting how personal choices connect to broader ecological justice and collective environmental impact.
Computer Utopias
Computer Utopias
Summary
A RISD course exploring how computing can be reimagined through artistic practice, collective experimentation, and critical inquiry into the social and political dimensions of technology.
DIY Websites Workshop
DIY Websites Workshop
Summary
A hands-on workshop teaching participants how to build simple, personal websites from scratch, encouraging self-reliance, creativity, and community-based digital literacy.
Run Your Own Social
Run Your Own Social
Summary
A practical guide encouraging people to create small, self-governed social networks, fostering trust, care, and sustainable online communities beyond corporate platforms.
Solidarity Infrastructures
Solidarity Infrastructures
Summary
A course by the School for Poetic Computation exploring how digital infrastructures can embody solidarity, mutual aid, and collective responsibility in times of crisis.
Seminar: "From the Sputnik to the Stack"
Seminar: "From the Sputnik to the Stack"
Summary
Explores how computational infrastructures (from Sputnik to the Stack) shape architecture, governance and public space at planetary scale.
TiddlyWiki
TiddlyWiki
Summary
A unique, single-file, open-source wiki that users fully own and control, enabling portable, self-hosted knowledge management without servers, platforms, or vendor lock-in.
La Scuola Open Source
La Scuola Open Source
Summary
La Scuola Open Source is a Bari-based cooperative fostering social and technological innovation through education, culture, and research, blending a hackerspace and FabLab for collaborative learning and creation.
Emerging Exits
Emerging Exits
Summary
An immersive art exhibition in one of the largest bunkers in the Netherlands, addressing technology, ecology and control through site-specific installations.
Our Networks (conference)
Our Networks (conference)
Summary
Explores past, present and future of building peer-to-peer, local and decentralized network infrastructures through sessions and workshops.
Forking Room
Forking Room
Summary
A symposium series exploring how to reclaim and re-mutate technology via exhibitions, talks, workshops under the theme “Left Tech”.
Screen Walks
Screen Walks
Summary
An online event series where artists and researchers guide viewers through their digital environments in real time, offering shared insight into creative processes, tools, and online cultures.
Culture Cares
Culture Cares
Summary
CARE – Culture for Mental Health uses arts and culture to address Europe’s growing mental health challenges, fostering connection, well-being, and new collective ways of care and social transformation.
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Baumhaus Bologna
Baumhaus Bologna
Summary
Baumhaus is a Bologna-based cooperative driven by social justice, accessibility and cultural quality. They place youth and marginalised voices at the centre, imagining new formats of knowledge, creativity and work.
Rete delle Case di Quartiere Torino
Rete delle Case di Quartiere Torino
Summary
Rete delle Case del Quartiere is a community network of neighbourhood hubs in Italy. They bring together residents, associations and public institutions to co-create inclusive spaces for social, cultural and civic life.
Nòva di Novara
Nòva di Novara
Summary
Nòva is an Italian social-promotion association born in 2020. They focus on transforming the former Caserma Passalacqua in Novara into a youth hub and cultural production centre, with spaces for study, creativity, music, maker labs and civic participation.
Pink Hammer
Pink Hammer
Summary
Builds self-sustaining queer communities inside organisations through co-created programs, facilitation and strategic community building.
La Ortiga Colectiva
La Ortiga Colectiva
Summary
Documents a non-profit cultural association in Cantabria publishing a magazine and running itinerant workshops linking arts, agro-ecology, and community learning.
Vaacha – Museum of Voice
Vaacha – Museum of Voice
Summary
Vaacha is a laboratory for contemporary ethnic, anthropological, and artistic studies from Adivasi perspectives, serving as India’s largest resource centre for Adivasi culture.
Exutoire – Queer Critical Spatial Practice
Exutoire – Queer Critical Spatial Practice
Summary
Queer architecture practice exploring social, spatial, and material justice. They make spaces, objects, and platforms-exhibitions, publications, podcasts-to lift underrepresented voices.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive
Summary
A non-profit digital library preserving billions of webpages, books, media, and software, offering open access to cultural memory and supporting public knowledge outside commercial platforms.
Whole Earth Codec – Planet-scale ecological AI
Whole Earth Codec – Planet-scale ecological AI
Summary
A nonprofit initiative developing open tools and collaborative projects to understand the ecological impacts of computation, encouraging sustainable digital practices and climate-aware technological choices.
Guild of Future Architects – 100-Year Vision for Regenerative Systems
Guild of Future Architects – 100-Year Vision for Regenerative Systems
Summary
A collective exploring future-oriented design, technology, and architecture through research, workshops, and public projects that promote shared knowledge, collaborative practices, and open cultural infrastructures.
Institute of Queer Ecology – Collaborative organism for multispecies futures
Institute of Queer Ecology – Collaborative organism for multispecies futures
Summary
A platform exploring the intersections of queer theory and ecological thought, highlighting relational practices, multispecies care, and community projects that reimagine justice across bodies and environments.
The Hmm
The Hmm
Summary
A platform for internet culture that offers events, research and educational programmes examining big-tech, online interaction and alternative digital practices in playful, accessible ways.
Who Makes the City?
Who Makes the City?
Summary
A civic initiative exploring who shapes urban environments through collaborative research, public programmes and storytelling that foreground community voices, shared agency and inclusive city-making.
Age of Union – Environmental Alliance for Planetary Change
Age of Union – Environmental Alliance for Planetary Change
Summary
Age of Union is a global environmental alliance supporting restoration projects and creative activism. Through films, education, and partnerships, it promotes collective ecological responsibility and regenerative relationships between humans and the planet.
Art+Feminism
Art+Feminism
Summary
A global campaign improving the representation of women and gender-diverse communities on Wikipedia through edit-a-thons, open education, and collaborative activism.
Common Knowledge Co-op
Common Knowledge Co-op
Summary
A not-for-profit worker-cooperative of technologists, designers and facilitators supporting grassroots groups in building digital infrastructure for social change.
Data for Black Lives (D4BL)
Data for Black Lives (D4BL)
Summary
Data for Black Lives is a movement of scientists, activists, and organizers using data science to advance racial justice. By creating alternative datasets and exposing algorithmic bias, D4BL transforms data from a tool of oppression into one of liberation and collective power.
Feminist Center for Creative Work
Feminist Center for Creative Work
Summary
A Los Angeles-based non-profit arts and community organisation centred around intersectional feminist creative practices.
Framework – Repairable Laptops and Modular Design
Framework – Repairable Laptops and Modular Design
Summary
Framework designs modular, repairable laptops that challenge planned obsolescence and electronic waste. By empowering users to fix, upgrade, and customize their devices, it promotes a circular economy and a more sustainable approach to personal technology.
Supporters for Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (SHARPS)
Supporters for Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (SHARPS)
Summary
NGO based in South Korea that supports semiconductor workers suffering illness and campaigns for their rights and corporate accountability.
Green Screen Network
Green Screen Network
Summary
A network and fund supporting work at the intersection of climate justice and digital rights by making visible the climate implications of technology.
Islands of Kinship
Islands of Kinship
Summary
A European network of art institutions experimenting with care-based, feminist, and decolonial practices to rethink collaboration, accessibility, and sustainability in the arts.
May First Movement Technology
May First Movement Technology
Summary
May First Movement Technology is a cooperative that provides digital infrastructure for social justice movements. It promotes community-owned hosting, open-source tools, and collective governance as alternatives to corporate cloud monopolies.
Metagov – The Metagovernance Project
Metagov – The Metagovernance Project
Summary
Research network building standards and tools for online community governance. Pilots with platforms/DAOs, open calls, and shared papers/prototypes to advance better digital institutions.
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)
Summary
The NCAC defends freedom of expression and challenges censorship across arts, education, and media, supporting advocacy, education, and public awareness initiatives.
NLnet Foundation – Current Projects
NLnet Foundation – Current Projects
Summary
A funding foundation supporting independent, open-source, and privacy-enhancing projects that strengthen internet freedom and public digital infrastructure.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation
Summary
Promotes open access to data and knowledge globally, developing tools and networks for open societies.
Opendata.ch
Opendata.ch
Summary
A Swiss non-profit association dedicated to empowering society through open knowledge: promoting data literacy, facilitating access to public data, and supporting civic engagement in open data initiatives.
Open Definition (OKFN)
Open Definition (OKFN)
Summary
The Open Definition sets out clear principles for what counts as “open” for data and content: freely accessible, reusable, modifiable and shareable by anyone, under conditions that preserve provenance and openness.
Other Internet (About)
Other Internet (About)
Summary
A non-profit applied research organisation investigating the psychological, political and economic effects of digitalisation and developing new mental models for thriving alongside networked institutions.
Social Web Foundation
Social Web Foundation
Summary
The Social Web Foundation promotes open standards and decentralized social networks. It supports the development of federated protocols like ActivityPub to ensure interoperability, user autonomy, and a more democratic digital ecosystem.
Tactical Tech
Tactical Tech
Summary
An NGO that produces toolkits, investigations and trainings on digital rights, data literacy, privacy and civic tech to empower activists, journalists and communities.
Tangled Art + Disability
Tangled Art + Disability
Summary
Tangled Art + Disability supports Deaf, disabled, and Mad artists through exhibitions, residencies, and advocacy, creating space for intersectional and accessible artistic practices.
Toolkit Press
Toolkit Press
Summary
Independent publisher focusing on practical toolkits at the intersection of art and tech.
Unlimited – Supporting Disabled Artists to Thrive
Unlimited – Supporting Disabled Artists to Thrive
Summary
Unlimited commissions, funds, and supports disabled artists, promoting accessibility and inclusion within the arts through collaboration, advocacy, and creative production.