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Artisanal Futures: Computing for a Community-Based Economy
Artisanal labor can be defined as work done with personal flair, pride in quality of craft, and the business independence to sustain that style of production. In our research project in Detroit, we include hairstylists, clothing and jewelry makers, urban farmers, furniture makers, and many other occupations. These small worker-owned enterprises are not creating high incomes. But by social measures–high in race and gender diversity, attentive to environmental sustainability, and committed to “giving back” through community services–they are exactly how the economy should be composed. Is it possible that AI, robotics, and other forms of technology could empower their production and services, create business to business collaborations, and offer new forms of consumption that turn worker-owned enterprise into an entire economy, one that is based on generative justice?
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