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Waterstof van Curaçaose wind
Naar aanleiding van zijn promotie werd Juan Carlos Goilo geïnterviewd door Het Parool. Hieronder kunt u het interview teruglezen.
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Recording defense TPhD-thesis
On Wednesday, January 31, Juan-Carlos Goilo defended his dissertation 'Information Actors Beyond Medernity and Coloniality in Times of Climate Change'. Below you will find the link to watch this ceremony. Giolo opens the ceremony with the 'layman's talk', in which he briefly explains his research. This is followed by questions from the professors.
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PhD-thesis: Information actors beyond modernity and coloniality in times of climate change
In his dissertation, Mr. Goilo developed a cutting-edge theoretical framework for an Anthropology of Information. This study compares information in the context of modernity in Amsterdam and coloniality in Curaçao through the making process of monitors and develops five ways to understand how information can act towards sustainable futures. The research also discusses how the two contexts, that is modernity and coloniality, have been in informational symbiosis for centuries which is producing negative informational side effects within the age of the Anthropocene. By exploring the modernity-coloniality symbiosis of information, the author explains how scholars, policymakers, and data-analysts can act through historical and structural roots of contemporary global inequities related to the production and distribution of information. Ultimately, the five theses propose conditions towards the collective production of knowledge towards a more sustainable planet.
Goilo, J-CME. (2024). Information actors beyond modernity and coloniality in times of climate
change: A comparative design ethnography on the making of monitors for sustainable futures
in Curaçao and Amsterdam, between 2019-2022. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van
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Case study Amsterdam - Documents
This collection contains documentation supporting the case study of Amsterdam (fieldwork 2019-2022), conducted in the context of the PhD-research of Juan-Carlos Goilo.
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Case study Curaçao
This collection contains documentation supporting the case study of Curaçao (fieldwork 2019-2022), conducted in the context of the PhD-research of Juan-Carlos Goilo.
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Outsourcing complexity
The economy is digitizing at a rapid pace. The movement of people; the extraction and transportation of natural resources; the exploitation of labor; the selling of goods and services are mediated by digital platforms. The information is mined in various industrial platforms and internet-of-things sensors, stored in cloud platforms, and processed for reuse on various types of service platforms. And the immense amounts of exchanges that take place in the urban arena create a somewhat magnetic attraction for digital platforms to enter city space. Therefore the central question of this study is: how do cities develop and export data-driven frameworks that foster a sustainable future?
Whereas outsourcing models of postindustrial societies have previously focused on cheap work in the global south, current trends show how digital platforms are automating, datafying and ultimately outsourcing work to technology. And as technology changes work, the relationship the global south will also need to adapt. The global supply chains, the movement of people, information and things will change dramatically with the mediation of these platforms in the coming years.
This study is a multi-disciplinary approach informed by three fields: urban studies, platform studies and (critical) postcolonial studies. From the perspective of urban studies the research mainly focuses on material culture within the concept of circular economy. This includes the usage, consumption, creation, and trade of tangible objects as well as the norms, and rituals that the objects create or take part in. Socio-technological innovation in the field of material resource management can be seen as the basis of the research, which is the bridge to platform studies. Digital platforms have become an integral part of the social fabric in the urban context, hence also an important part of how people interact. In essence these two disciplines help the research tackle how material and digital culture meet as a way to design and manage a sustainable future economy for cities. However, many of the current digital platforms operating in the urban context have shown to be extractive and exploitative. Here is where this research introduces critical (postcolonial) studies to inform the two former fields and provide a critical framework to the role of platforms in the urban context.
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Design Sprint Monitor of Circular Economy
After launching the strategy, the monitor circular economy developed a steady basis for further research, using governmental data sources: national import/use/export and waste management statistics, information about the total number of branches and employees in circular jobs as well as local surveys on the perceptions about the circular economy. The next step is connecting these insights with those of key players. In other words, the monitor aims to develop partnerships with citizen science, business R&D's and other forms of city science to create win-win scenarios on how Amsterdam can work towards 50% reduction of primary raw materials by 2030, full circularity by 2050, as well as enter the "sweet spot" of Kate Raworth's doughnut model. In this session the monitor circular economy was presented, and a co-design session was organised.
This session was moderated by Mesiha Tepic and Juan-Carlos Goilo.
In the virtual co-design session, the following challenge was chosen to work on in the session: Develop services for different stakeholders, so they can recognize themselves in the material streams. The other possible challenges can be seen in photo 1.
Photo 1
Subsequently, design requirements were formulated for this challenge:
- Include subsectors (hotels, citizens, etc.)
- Interactive communication (people can bring in ideas)
- Provide info on main actors per stream
- Develop personas for different stakeholders
- Consensus on data points across subsectors of a value chain
- More detailed information about the commodity groups
- A system where local companies/districts/streets can upload data (to contextualize the data)
- Focus on just one value chain
- The frequency of informational needs
Subsequently, these design requirements were further grouped and linked to an inspirational example (see photo 2), including the Together against food waste initiative, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the AMS session on organic waste on 17 February.
In conclusion, the importance of stakeholder involvement was emphasized. The city cannot develop a monitor in isolation. Value chains are dynamic and the necessary data can only be obtained through stakeholders.
Photo 2
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Chapter 22: Everything & Nothing
Story by: Juan Carlos Golio
Images by: Francis Sling
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