Catherine Ahearn

Essay Competition Winner | The old story of AI is about human brains working against silicon brains. The new story of IA will be about human brains working with silicon brains. As it turns out most of the world is the opposite of a chess game: Non-zero-sum—both players can win.

Today, greenhouse gas emissions are rising again while questions about how to spur economic growth continue. I wonder, are we missing the connection? Might a move away from reduction help us to understand our shared options?

We are designing increasingly complex ecologies, involving unpredictable human interactions, emotional experiences and intangible services, as well as the physical objects that we pick off the shelf.  We don’t just design forms, we now design platforms.

An existential worry lies beneath concerns about the future of AI. We as humans fear that we will lose our autonomy as we pursue automation with such abandon. It feels urgent that we examine what we care most about in humanity as we race to develop the science and technology.

Designing our Complex Future with Machines.

Research statement submitted to MIT for Joichi Ito's Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences promotion case in March 2016.

Innovations Case Narrative: Warsaw, Poland

Innovations Case Narrative: Antwerp, Belgium

Innovations Case Narrative: Antwerp, Belgium

Buenos Aires has made a particular effort to promote collaborative value creation.

What is emboldening local governments to take on more than their immediate work? What is making it possible for cities and local governments to tackle perennial problems of equity and sustainable development?

Innovations Case Narrative: Schlafly Beer

Innovations Case Narrative: Manizales-Mas and Scale Up Milwaukee

Ecosystems in Cities: A Framework for Growth and Sustainability of Urban Tech Innovation Ecosystems

An Approach to Inventorying and Measuring a Region’s Innovation Momentum

Innovations Case Narrative: Bull City Forward, Forward Cities, and Forward Impact

Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.

What’s the lesson too many people take from that first and most influential episode in Star Wars back in 1977? One incredibly well-placed shot into the thermal exhaust port and the entire apparatus of our oppression explodes spectacularly.

Parse the title either way—I believe that 30 years from now people will look back at the beginning of our century and wonder what we were doing and thinking about big, hard, long-term problems, particularly those of basic research.

What is PubPub? Why does it exist? | What are some characteristics that make PubPub unique? | Who is PubPub for? | How do I start a community? | Dictionary of terms

How do I: create my own community? | create a PubPub profile? | submit a pub to a community? | create pages? | format pages? | delete a pub? | delete a community?

The philosophy of the Underlay.

设计能否推动科学的发展，而科学又能否促进设计的提升？

Moving from brand to process-based indicators of document quality.

PubPub includes features to support the dynamic, iterative, multimedia, and often cross-disciplinary publication of scholarly work.

We invite the community to annotate and comment on these letters, by the Association of American Publishers and a coalition of research and publishing organizations to the Trump administration.

The Commonplace is a space where people discuss the digital infrastructure and policies needed to distribute, constellate, and amplify knowledge for the public good.

This article is intended to walk you through the steps of creating a community, as well as the initial steps of establishing your homepage and site-wide settings.

A conversation about the role of preprints, sharing, and collaboration hosted by ASAPbio and the Knowledge Futures Group, held on 31 March 2020 and transcribed here.

Friday, May 29th at 9am EDT

Brief Description

A guide for MIT Press editors and authors for the effective use of the platform as a resource

Report of a Stakeholder’s Workshop & Recommendations for Action

An end-of-year roundup of all our favorite Things

MIT SHASS | Thursday, November 5, 2020 @ 4:30pm EST

Can be changed!

Can be changed!

The dominant commercial models in scholarly publishing aren’t serving the academy or humanity well — extracting enormous profits from a mostly publicly-funded endeavor. But we have a window to stand up and support an alternative.

A call for contributions. Submissions close on Wednesday, June 23, 2020.

A letter from the editors

A call for contributions. Submissions close on Monday, September 13, 2021.

A conversation with Catherine Ahearn about the hand-in-hand development of open infrastructure and a culture around open knowledge