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The Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies is formed by a fluid group of artists and engineers working in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). It was initiated by artist and cultural critic Dani Ploeger in 2022. Combining art and engineering, the center investigates and develops visions and practices for a postcolonial technological culture that builds on the principles of democratic confederalism, a form of libertarian socialism that constitutes the backbone of the Rojava Revolution. It is based on decentralized, stateless governance, gender equality, cooperative labour and ecology.

To date, artistic research projects have been conducted into post-digital propaganda in public space, decolonial domestic technology and myth-based defense systems. In addition, a reader with key texts has been published in Kurmanji, Arabic and English.

Revolution Refridge – a prototype of a Kurdo-futuristic refrigerator for a decentralized technoculture – received a Nomination for the STARTS Prize 2024, the grand prize of the European Commission for science, technology and art.

Based in: Qamishlo, Autonomous Administration Of North And East