Organizers Behind this Study
Sara Milkes Espinosa is a pHD Candidate at Georgia Tech studying secondhand economies from heterodox economics perspectives. She has participated in secondhand economies as a buyer and a seller, initially drawn to it by her obsession with old dolls and toys.
Zarya Ajasin is a Georgia Tech graduate and incoming Masters student at New York University interested in using creative and participatory research approaches to explore cyberculture, speculative futures, and how to design software that centers curiosity and play.
Carl DiSalvo is an associate professor at Georgia Tech advising students in this project. His recent book Design as Democratic Inquiry explores how: "Through practices of collaborative imagination and making, or "doing design otherwise,” design experiments can contribute to keeping local democracies vibrant."