Three interconnected axes

The Common Margins project unfolds across three interconnected axes, each grounded in conceptual frameworks that bridge ethnographic practice, critical STS theory and commons-oriented co-creation.

Co-creation as research

Facilitation & documentation of DIY workshops, creative retreats and citizen-ethnographic encounters for zine-making, participatory design and/or situated learning that serve both as qualitative research and as channels for collective expression.

Open infrastructure

Development & remix of simple, accessible tools and materials to co-design, share and remix research outcomes and methods under open knowledge licenses – treating publishing technologies and co-creation practices as a commons.

Collection & analysis

Digitising & studying zines (own, co-created and historical) as well as co-design canvas, leaflets, stickers and other paper-based outcomes to understand themes, aesthetics and networks of independent publishing and thinking.

Co-developed and coordinated by Enric Senabre Hidalgo at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, Universitat de Barcelona, Common Margins is co-funded by the research grant RYC2022-036634-I, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) and the State Research Agency (MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), with co-funding from the European Social Fund Plus (FSE+).