This toolkit synthesizes insights from content analysis, case studies, and a qualitative survey to provide recommendations for the design of digital safe spaces that prioritize empathy and specific community needs over extractive, platform-centric approaches.
It is the outcome of an eight-week international Research Sprint on digital safe spaces. Since 2021, Edgelands has hosted dialogues on safety, surveillance, and technology in urban life. With this sprint, we shifted the focus to the digital realm and identified four foundational conditions for digital safety: relational, cultural, procedural, and infrastructural conditions.
This toolkit serves as both a practical guide and a call to reimagine digital spaces as community-governed environments where safety is co-created by those who inhabit them, rather than imposed by corporate architectures optimized for engagement over wellbeing.
Chercheurs impliqués :
Pulkit Mogra
Tatiana Lysova
Lilian Olivia Otero
Catherine Keegan
Nina Martin
Mmabatho Oke
Jessica McClearn
Giovanna da Custódia
Mentors and Edgelands team:
Nina Baranowska
Daniel Ogondo
Virgginia Laborão
Vanessa Gathecha
Laura García Vargas
Design team:
Flavia Lozano
Larissa Oliveira
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