Creative Futures x Rhizome: Counterstructural Commons Residency Application

Apply for the Counterstructural Commons Residency, organized and hosted by Rhizome in partnership with Mozilla Foundation. This program will run weekly in NYC from Feb 25, 2026 to April 29, 2026, with a final presentation of finished projects on May 16, 2026.

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As AI and algorithmic systems increasingly mediate human decision-making, and as ecological crises demand new models of consensus formation and collaboration, communities need accessible frameworks for examining technological systems. The Counterstructural Commons residency provides technology-focused artists with resources for prototyping and developing a project over the course of 10 weeks. Projects could take many forms, including but not limited to an educational tool, cooperative game format, or a workshop syllabus.

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Guiding Principles
  1. Infrastructure for public good rather than extractive or proprietary systems

  2. Technologies that create resonance - tools and environments that return agency and aliveness to people rather than absorbing it

  3. Alternative technological histories and ecological knowledge that inform different digital futures

  4. Joy, play, and beauty as core components of community technology

  5. Consent in human-AI collaboration, including who has standing to grant or refuse it

  6. What neighbors actually think about technology’s role in their lives, beyond platform-generated assumptions

  7. Community-based worldbuilding instead of expert-driven forecasting

  8. Viable and thriving digital commons and how to strengthen them

  9. Technology for diverse realities (literacy, connectivity, device access, culture)

  10. Interspecies, ecological, or non-human collaboration

  11. Minimally mediated, inquiry-driven spaces for communal technological learning
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