Savic, SelenaBedö, ViktorBüsse, MichaelaMartins, Yann PatrickMiyazaki, Shintaro2021-10-252021-10-2520202451-347410.1515/culture-2020-0015https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/32704https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-3913This article explores the use of agent-based modelling as a critical and playful form of engagement with cooperative housing organizations. Because of its inherent complexities vis-à-vis decision-making, commoning is a well-suited field of study to explore the potential of humanities-driven experimental design (media) research to provoke critical reflection, problem-finding and productive complication. By introducing two different agent-based models, the interdisciplinary research team discusses their experience with setting up parameters for modelling, their implications, and the possibilities and limits of employing modelling techniques as a basis for decision-making. While it shows that modelling can be helpful in detecting long-term results of decisions or testing out effects of unlikely yet challenging events, modelling might act as a discursive practice uncovering hidden assumptions inherent in the model setup and generating an increase of scientific uncertainty. The project “ThinkingToys for Commoning” thus argues for a critical modelling practice and culture, in which models act as toys for probing alternative modes of living together and explor- ing the constructedness of methods. In countering late forms of capitalism, the resulting situated and critical practice provides avenues for enabling more self-determined forms of governance.enAttribution 3.0 United Statescommoningmodellingconviviality(media) design researchhousing cooperative01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift143-153