Line of work
Tools for Postcapitalism
We design and prototype tools that make different economic relations possible: tools for cooperation, shared resources and collective abundance beyond extraction, scarcity and competition.
About
Technology for liberation and joy.
Radical Data is a collective that creates technology for liberation and joy. Bringing together practices from data science, socially engaged art and Latin American activism, we build community-based projects that redefine the role of technology in our present and future.
Our vision
We start from the people usually excluded from designing technology.
Our work starts with the people usually left out of designing technology, even though they live with its consequences every day. People whose knowledge is embodied, local, political and routinely ignored by mainstream tech.
We create spaces to learn, build, argue, imagine and break things together. That means workshops, collective prototypes, artistic experiments and tools shaped with communities from the ground up. Spaces where people shape technology instead of being managed by it.
Our projects experiment with different technological paradigms: tools for collective life, not billionaire fantasies; infrastructures that serve people, not platforms that extract from them.
We build and test radical utopias together, reimagining what technology can do in the present and what kind of future it can help us make.
Our lines of work
Three ways our practice takes shape.
Line of work
Collective Intelligence
We build systems that help people think, decide and act together. We bring different forms of knowledge into the same space: lived, technical, embodied, human and more-than-human.
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Tecnología Popular
We develop community-centred technology practices through education, experimentation and shared learning. For us, technology is not something to passively consume. It is something people can understand, shape and own together.
Our team
People shaping Radical Data.
Founder
Rayén Jara Mitrovich
Rayén is a Chilean artist, activist and researcher whose work focuses on intimacy, bodies and their interaction with technology. After ten years of working on art projects with communities — including Indigenous communities living in isolated areas of Chile, young people in jail, children in social shelters and women who have experienced violence — Rayén co-founded Radical Data to explore the potential of technology for connection and intimacy.
Founder
Jo Jara Kroese
Jo is an English-Dutch mathematician, artist and technologist. Their work uses data and technology to create tools for resistance and real utopias. As the co-founder of Radical Data, they have built tools for anti-fascism, worked as a political consultant for socialists in Latin America, and made an AI that learns to be thankful.
Coordination and Communication
Ágata Bañón
Ágata is a Spanish artist and organiser working at the intersection of gender, technology and collective imagination. With a strong background in communications across public and private sectors, as well as grassroots social activism, she collaborates with Radical Data to strengthen organisational strategy and communications.