Cloud of Cards

<p><em>Cloud of Cards</em>, “a home cloud kit to re-appropriate your data self,” is the final outcome of Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s), a joint design and ethnographic research project investigating personal clouds and data centers.</p> <p>The main results of this design research project have been informed by the preliminary findings of an ethnographic research into the cloud (<em><a style="background: #f2e315; font-weight: 500;" href="https://www.librarystack.org/cloud-of-practices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cloud of Practices</a></em>) and a design sketches phase conducted in parallel. They comprise four digital and physical artefacts, forming a set of modular tools (“cards”), which are delivered in the form of an open-source DIY kit, freely accessible at www.cloudofcards.org and on Github.</p> <p>The purpose of these tools is to enable everyone, in particular the community of designers and makers, to set up their own small-scale data center and cloud, manage their data in a decentralized way and develop their own alternative projects using this small-scale personal infrastructure.</p>