ISSUE-ORIENTED HACKATHONS AS AD-HOC DESIGN EVENTS

Issue-oriented hackathons are events at which groups of people work together to address sociallyoriented “challenges” through the development of technical interventions, usually in software or hardware. Drawing from ethnographic research of multiple hackathons, we argue that issue-oriented hackathons exemplify a mode of situated and contingent design-through-making, or, mode of adhoc design. In the context of issue-oriented hackathons, ad-hoc design enables participation in design things, specifically, it enables the construction of proto-publics: experiments in orienting people and resources toward issues.

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