Dan Schmidt
I’m scrappy and like to make things, whether that’s software, video, or something physical.
I just finished a Watson Fellowship: a year living with communities in seven countries, watching how they take up digital tools and building new alternatives together along the way.
Right now I’m living in the Bay Area, apprenticing with Spencer Chang.
Contact
Email | GitHub | Substack | Mastodon | LinkedIn | Strava
Current/recent work
- Working as the experience designer for Kaeru-chan’s Journey Home with the Akiya Collective
- Rebuilt the forum that Svanholm, an intentional community in Denmark, uses to make decisions, and made a way for them to book their shared cars
- Built a community radio interface for low-literacy listeners with Janastu, on a hacker farm in rural Karnataka
- Ran a social tech hackathon with the Akiya Collective in Nagano
- Gave a talk, The Ecology of Social Technology, at Newspeak House in London
- Designed and built a small-scale mesh network to run an interactive livestream on a donkey farm