The Solidarity Infrastructures class was conceptualized and co-taught by Max Fowler and Alice Yuan Zhang through the School for Poetic Computation. The class was co-created through cycles of collaborations across seasons over time:

Spring 2023: Max and Alice taught and Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy supported the class
Winter 2024: Alice taught the class with support from Meghna Mahadevan and Oren Robinson.
Winter 2025: Max and Meghna taught the class with support from Olivia McKayla Ross.

'Global Village', sketch by Alice Yuan Zhang, 2023

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In this class, we will explore concepts like the slow web, organic Internet, right-to-repair, data sovereignty, minimal computing and anti-computing. Get to know how community tech and organizing go hand-in-hand through real-world case studies. Learn about the creative applications and underlying ideologies of various open source tools and network topologies. Tune into signals of radical communication beyond colonialist legibility. Along the way, we aim to challenge the technocapitalist worldview, breaking the dichotomy of "high" and "low" tech in favor of a needs-based approach that centers collectivist values and the Earth.

Over the course of the class, participants will develop technical skills for running a situated server practice and learn from each others' experiences. Each participant is encouraged to take on a creative project which may range from a small poetic experiment, to archiving personal and familial stories, to collaborating with the neighborhood library, community garden, elderly home, or mutual aid coalition.