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The Networking Ecologically Smart Territories (NEST) project tested the hypothesis that digital diversification, explored through the concepts of noodiversification and technodiversification, is key to reinventing contemporary industrial economics. This transdisciplinary research aimed to connect local territorial situations with international concerns within the context of the Anthropocene.
The project involved an international and intersectoral exchange of researchers and staff among eleven consortium partners, including academic institutions such as TU Dublin (Ireland), IRI and Paris Lumiere (France), SALSKI (Poland), and Berkeley (USA), as well as non-academic partners like DCC (Ireland) and Factory of the Living (Poland).
NEST had three main academic work packages (WPs):
- **WP1**: Extended the critique of digital technology by reconsidering computer theory in relation to locality, negentropy (principles of order), anti-entropy, data economy, and networked AI. It developed the concepts of technodiversity and cosmotechnics.
- **WP2**: Experimented with forms of collective responsibility through territorial experimentation. This enabled new forms of citizen participation in local governance via contributory research.
- **WP3**: Developed a network of territorial laboratories for digital contributory research. It studied the constraints affecting life and ecological niches to generate local understandings of living singularities and cooperation between territorial laboratories and academics.
The project involved an international and intersectoral exchange of researchers and staff among eleven consortium partners, including academic institutions such as TU Dublin (Ireland), IRI and Paris Lumiere (France), SALSKI (Poland), and Berkeley (USA), as well as non-academic partners like DCC (Ireland) and Factory of the Living (Poland).
NEST had three main academic work packages (WPs):
- **WP1**: Extended the critique of digital technology by reconsidering computer theory in relation to locality, negentropy (principles of order), anti-entropy, data economy, and networked AI. It developed the concepts of technodiversity and cosmotechnics.
- **WP2**: Experimented with forms of collective responsibility through territorial experimentation. This enabled new forms of citizen participation in local governance via contributory research.
- **WP3**: Developed a network of territorial laboratories for digital contributory research. It studied the constraints affecting life and ecological niches to generate local understandings of living singularities and cooperation between territorial laboratories and academics.
| Short title | NesT |
|---|---|
| Acronym | NesT |
| Status | Finished |
| Effective start/end date | 1/09/20 → 28/02/25 |
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