Digital Commons Conference:
Infrastructures, Design and the Ethics of Autonomy
Co-organized by the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, with parallel activities at AiTHERION.
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Venue: Saki Karagiorga II
9:00-9:30
Registration
9:30-10:00
Welcome speeches
KEYNOTE
10:00-11:00
Augural Commons: When Digital Infrastructures Inaugurate Territories They Do Not Yet Possess
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
Reader in Social Anthropology, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
11:00-11:20
Coffee/tea break
Panel 1
Community Infrastructures, Autonomy & Relational Sovereignty
Chair: Paraskevi (Voula) Zotali, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
11:20-11:40
Technologies for Autonomy: Building Telecommunications by and for the Commons in Latin America
Adrián López Angulo
REDES A.C. / LocNet
11:40-12:00
Rethinking the Commons through Lo Comunal: Community Infrastructures from Mexico to Athens
Paraskevi (Voula) Zotali
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
12:00-12:20
Where lichen grows. Reindeer, data infrastructures and environmental conflicts
Daniela Sant’Ana
University of Oslo
Ana Maria Delgado Aleman
University of Oslo
12:20-12:40
Commoning Infrastructure: Relational Sovereignty in Canada
Philipp Budka
University of Vienna
12:40-13:00
Discussion
13:00-14:30
Lunch break
Panel 2
Towards a Counterhegemonic Praxis of Digital Commoning and Redistribution: Perspectives from India
Panel Organizers: Alexios Tsigkas, FLAME University, and Vijayanka Nair, San Diego State University
Chair: Vijayanka Nair, San Diego State University
14:30-14:50
On Scents and Algorithms: Commoning Luxury, Unsettling Distinction
Alexios Tsigkas
FLAME University
14:50-15:10
The Body Builder and the Vitiated Digital Sphere: Commoning in Right-Wing Times in India
Katyayani Dalmia
University of Zurich
15:10-15:30
Common Knowledge: The Case of Sci-Hub and the Political Economy of Big Publishing in India
Sinjini Mukherjee
Independent Researcher, India
15:30-15:50
Aadhaar in Popular Culture: Commoning India’s Unique ID Program
Vijayanka Nair
San Diego State University
15:50-16:10
Discussion
16:10-16:25
Festival Greeting: TRANSEUROPA 2026 Reclaiming the Cloud(s) Billie Dibb, European Alternatives
A brief introduction to the 2026 TRANSEUROPA Festival in Athens, its theme Reclaiming the Cloud(s), and its synergies with the Digital Commons Conference around digital infrastructures, public space, and collective futures.
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Venue: Saki Karagiorga II
9:00-9:30
Registration
Panel 3
Designing Digital Commons: Cooperative Platforms, Interfaces & Artistic Practice
Chair: Martha Michailidou, Panteion University of Social and Political Science
9:30-9:50
Working together for a fairer digital infrastructure in music distribution: Reflections on a research partnership and pilot summit with platform co-ops Mirlo and Jam.coop
Henry Morgan
Goldsmiths, University of London
Raquel Campos Valverd
University of Leeds
Ivan Mouraviev
University of Huddersfield
9:50-10:10
Designing Commoned Platforms: Participatory Approaches to Cooperative Digital Infrastructures
Anannya Bhowmik Paul
Aalborg University
10:10-10:30
Visualisation of Network Interdependencies as Additional Feed Interface for Social Media to Enable Pro-Social Affordances – An Exploration of its Potential, Pitfalls and Consequence
Nina Hoff
Independent Researcher, the Netherlands
10:30-10:50
Return, Not Extraction: Designing an Artistic AI Commons
Nina Wenhart
University of Arts Linz
10:50-11:10
Discussion
11:10-11:30
Coffee/tea break
Panel 4
Platform Labour, Commoning & Algorithmic Governance
Chair: Petros Petridis, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
11:30-11:50
Commoning in Digital Webcam Sex/Porn Environments: Labour, Publics, and Platform Governance
Giorgos Ilias Sakkas
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
11:50-12:10
Digital Labour and Redistribution as Relational Commoning in Cameroon
Ewa Majczak
UCL/University of Cape Town
Liz Fouksman
King’s College London
12:10-12:30
“We are not numbers, we make the numbers”: Digital surveillance, KPIs, and ethical contestations of algorithmically-driven evaluation systems in call center work
Christina Korkontzelou
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
12:30-12:50
Institutional cybernetics. Commons and AI to a post-hierarchical future
Theodor Sarafidis
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
12:50-13:10
Game of Commons: Algorithmic Mediation, Community Autonomy, and Resistance
Eleni Lazaridou
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
13:10-13:30
Discussion
13:30–14:30
Lunch break
Panel 5
Digital Commons, AI & Collective Governance
Chair: Athena Athanasiou, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
14:30-14:50
The Importance of the “Ontoshift” for the (Digital) Commons: Open Artificial Intelligence as an Example
Giannis Perperidis
Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University
14:50-15:10
Navigating the Extractivist Paradigm of Generative Artificial Intelligence through the Digital Commons
Nikos Smyrnaios
University of Toulouse
15:10-15:30
From Vague Horizontality to Liquid Authority: What digital commons can teach social movements about decision-making
Alekos (Alexandros) Pantazis
University of Thessaly
15:30-15:50
Digital Public Sovereignty and Public-Commons Partnerships: Theory and Case Studies
Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
15:50-16:10
Discussion
16:10-16:30
Coffee/tea break
Panel 6
Knowledge Commons, Epistemic Infrastructures & Collective Intelligence
Chair: Vasilis Avdikos, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
16:30-16:50
AI literacy as a commoning practice: How critical AI literacy becomes “social infrastructure” for vulnerable communities
Giannis Farsaris
Computer Science Teacher, Greek Public Education
16:50-17:10
SEXTANT: A model for navigating data governance in citizen science platforms
Karen Soacha-Godoy
MINKA Citizen Observatory (ICM–CSIC) / Open University of Catalonia
Jaume Piera
Institut de Ciències del Mar ICM-CSIC
17:10-17:30
How socio-technical infrastructures and human-AI collaboration shape disinformation
Larysa Nazarenko
Pantelis Vatikiotis
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
17:30-17:50
Collaborative Design for Phygital Knowledge Commons and Decolonial Futures
Asli Telli
University of Cologne
17:50-18:10
Discussion
National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"
Venue: New IIT Building (no. 50), Conference room
9:30-9:50
Registration
9:50-10:00
Welcome speeches
Panel 7
Mediation, Culture & Embodied Infrastructures
Chair: Lida Arnellou, NCSR Demokritos
10:00-10:20
Weaving Code and Cloth: Maya Textiles in the Digital World
Sonia Chinn
University of Texas at Austin
10:20-10:40
Mind, Body, Tool: An Anthropological Exploration of Memory, the Self, and the Sensorial Through ASMR
Lara Stulting
University of Cambridge
10:40-11:00
Digital commons as policy and practice: participatory approaches supporting Europe’s cultural and creative industries
Dr. Anna Talley
University of Edinburgh
Caitlin McDonald
University of Edinburgh
Lennart Stoy
Technopolis Group
11:00-11:20
Patriotic Scream and Upright Moan: Infrastructures of Body and Politics of Affect in Chinese Amateur Audio-Drama
Jiarui Sun
University of Chicago
11:20-11:40
Discussion
11:40-12:00
Coffee/tea break
Panel 8
Digital Infrastructures Otherwise: Care, Justice, Value & Autonomy
Chair: Vasiliki Mollaki, NCSR Demokritos
12:00-12:15
Co-Creating Ethical Principles for Digital Services for Children
Beckett LeClair
5Rights Foundation
12:15-12:35
Commoning Child Online Safety: Autonoming Infrastructures for the Ethics of Autonomy
Mennatullah Hendawy
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
12:35-12:55
Form Follows Function? Front-End Web Technologies and the Intensification of Behavioural Convergence in GUI Design
Maria-Niovi Lampiri
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
12:55-13:15
Thinking Intelligence Through Ground, Extraction, and Infrastructure
Angela Ka Ki Lee
École Spéciale d’Architecture
Chris Tegho
Artist / Machine Learning Engineer
13:15-13:35
Contribution and Capture: The Political Economy of Open Source and European Digital Sovereignty
Felix Ansmann
Independent Researcher and Strategist
13:35-13:55
People, time, space. Networked Justice in Smart Cities
Nikoleta Vermez
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
13:55-14:15
Discussion
14:15-15:00
Lunch break
Panel 9
Digital Commons in the Cultural Heritage Landscape
Panel Organizer: Marina Markellou, University of Groningen
Chair: Foteini Salmouka, NCSR Demokritos
15:00-15:20
The concept of Digital Cultural Commons and its legal/ethical challenges
Marina Markellou
University of Groningen
15:20-15:40
Digital Cyclades: Building a Community Generated Cultural Commons
Jacob Moe
Archipelago Network
15:40-16:00
AI and the Fragile Promise of “Commoning” in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Alexandra Bounia
University of the Aegean
Despina Catapoti
University of the Aegean
16:00-16:20
Developing digital heritage commons
Stelios Lekakis
Ionian University