Remake tech from below
Collective Action School (formerly known as Logic School) is an online, experimental school for tech workers produced by Logic Foundation with support from Processing Foundation.
Our curriculum draws from the worlds of activism, design, and software engineering. Our program cultivates critical thinking about technology and its impact. We are a community built school.
Collective Action School has a grassroots theory of change. We believe the people who make the tech industry run—its workers—have the power to not only transform it, but to build and imagine new technologies.
At Collective Action School, we’re guided by the idea of “underlying conditions” – what are the underlying conditions that have grown the world we live in now? What are the underlying conditions we need to create, to live in the world we want? We believe technology (from the distributed web to ancestral technologies) has a role to play in answering these questions.
Applications are currently closed.
Year 2 stewards, mentors, advisors and librarians
Year 2 Guest Lecturers
Alex Hanna, Distributed AI Research Institute, DAIR
Ari Melenciano , Afrotectopia / NYU Twitter: @aricianoo
Blunt, Hacking//Hustling
Ifeoma Ozoma, Founder of Earthseed, Director of Tech Accountability at UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice
Clarissa Redwine, Kickstarter Union Oral History , Collective Action in Tech, Twitter: @ClarissaRedwine
Erin McElroy, Assistant Professor of American Studies at UT Austin, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Twitter: @antievictionmap @erin_mc_elroy
Shazeda Ahmed, Princeton University, Center for Information Technology Policy
Stay tuned as we add more year 2 guest lecturers.
Meet our amazing year 1 lecturers!
Timnit Gebru, Distributed AI Research Institute, DAIRFAQs
TL;DR:
Who is Collective Action School for?
We welcome all tech workers — whether you’re a project manager, warehouse worker, software engineer, or ride share driver. Applicants must not be full time K-12 or university students.
When is Collective Action School?
Collective Action School runs for thirteen (13) weeks, from March 23 2023 to June 15 2023, with a one week school break during that time. We meet Thursdays 4-6pm Pacific time/7-9 Eastern time.
What will I do in Collective Action School?
Collective Action School covers issues of justice in tech through a multitude of approaches — whether it’s organizing in the workplace, contributing to an existing data visualization project or worker-owned platform, or building a new platform to nurture creative activism.
As a participant, you will work towards a final project as part of the program. Logic School meets for a live, two-hour session each week. Before a session, you are expected to complete self-guided work: listening, reading, reflecting, and making progress on their final projects. Organizing is a muscle. You will also co-organize some of the school’s sessions, as well as contributing to Logic’s ethos as a community-led school.
Check out our Program page for details or projects from Cohort 1 to see what this looks like in practice.
Is it free?
Yes! Collective Action School is 100% free, thanks to support from Processing Foundation and the financial support of the Omidyar Network’s The Tech We Want Program.
What’s the time commitment?
About 5 hours a week: 2 hours live meeting + at least 3 hours of project work and reading/listening. The live meeting will be scheduled for a weeknight, based on cohort availability and prioritizing US timezones.
Given the time commitment, especially as the program encourages working towards a final project, We offer various types of support, including research help, collaborative office hours and one-on-one advising sessions and a small final project stipend.