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Seminar
January 15, 2026 ―
January 16, 2026
Re-imagining Public Goods Workshop
Joffa M. Applegate (SCAS), Sha Xin Wei (SCAS, GAME), and Andrew Dana Hudson (English) convened a workshop with activists, systems theorists, and writers to explore commons-based scenarios through the lenses of food, shelter, and material goods. We used as a conceptual trellis a “social activity canvas” dimensioned along market vs. value for social production or what would be considered higher-order personal and social “externalities” by economists. The workshop should yield insights for (1) hybridizing ethnographically-hinted participatory design with unconventional economic theory, (2) designs for speculative alter-economic games. The workshop was funded by the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and hosted at the Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU.