cache: Open Access as a socio-technical system

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Nils Güttler, Niki Rhyner, Max Stadler

The publication project cache addresses the politics of openness and accessibility in the humanities by practically engaging with editorial practice. cache is both an epistemic tool and a publication platform for research groups. The product – the hybrid publication cache with its first issue launched in May 2020 – combines elements of edited volumes (thematic issues), of collective monographs (the collective writing process), of exhibitions (the focus on visual aspects) and open archives (the reprint of archive material in the publication).

Throughout the project we have particularly focused on the social, economic and design dimensions of open access (OA). By treating OA as a complex socio-technical system, the goal of our editorial practice has been to develop strategies for a new understanding of "openness of knowledge". This includes, for instance, the development of an (aesthetically) accessible publication platform, but also an emphasis on mediating the content to a broader public with social events and new educational formats

The project takes place in cooperation with the M.A. program external pageVisual Communicationcall_made at the Zurich University of the Arts (head: Prof. Dr. Sarah Owens) and, on the technical side, with the external pageData and Service Center for the Humanitiescall_made (DaSCH) at the University of Basel.

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