March 18, 2026

Online seminar

Online seminar and presentation of the final report of the European project Redistributive Imaginaries (University of the Arts London, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Zurich, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, University of Lapland).

We invite you to attend the online seminar taking place on Wednesday, March 18, from 12:00 to 13:30 (CET) to present the final report of the project Redistributive Imaginaries: digitalization, culture and prosocial contribution. REDIGIM is a 3-year research and knowledge exchange project funded by CHANSE and carried out in Spain, Finland, Montenegro, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

More information and registration: https://www.ema.uzh.ch/en/register/redigim.html 

About the Project: In Europe’s mixed economies of welfare, redistribution practices are dispersed through civil society. Voluntary organisations involved in the delivery of welfare increasingly rely on digital tools and platforms to raise funds and manage relationships with donors. The project interrogates the systems of meaning that people use to make sense of redistribution and welfare provision. Through platform analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, we have examined emerging practices in the voluntary sector and identified some of the significant ways in which digital platforms are shaping dominant and emerging redistributive imaginaries.

In this seminar, members of the research team will discuss the project and its key findings, followed by discussion with respondents John Clarke, Eva Frade and Hanna Kuusela, and a Q&A with the audience.

Chair: Emma Dowling (University of Vienna)

Presenters from the research team: Rebecca Bramall (University of the Arts London), Milana Čergić (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz), Moritz Ege (University of Zurich), Mercè Oliva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Respondents: John Clarke (Emeritus, Open University), Eva Frade (Platoniq Foundation), Hanna Kuusela (University of Jyväskylä)

Download the report: https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/publications/how-do-digital-platforms-shape-meanings-and-practices/ 

Visualization of project's key findings: https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/imaginaries/

Project website: https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/