Background
Urban Hosts was established in Dublin, in 2013 as a response for the need to cultivating grass-roots spaces, in which an open, ongoing dialogue around city living could be continually fostered.
Designed as a salon style event, in which contemporary techno-civic issues are discussed in an intimate and welcoming setting. Topics covered to date have focused on urban commoning, shared resource management, sustainable food networks, algorithmic governance, data rights and civic freedoms.
Since its inception, the scope of the project has grown to include a set of feral resources, known as ‘expansions’ that range from experiments in sensing urban rivers and seabeds, to workshops on Unpleasant Design and hosting your own website, to residencies, screenings, publications and tools. Urban Hosts is now home to this interweaving set of materials.