Sharing as Method: Ethics, Organisation, and the Politics of Access
The Royal Danish Academy, the PhD School
Language
English
Lecturer(s)
Michael Asgaard Andersen
Course description
“Sharing as Method” examines sharing as a critical concept across anthropology, commons governance, architecture, political philosophy, and ecology. Taking Jacques Rancière's concept of partage as its conceptual spine, the course asks what happens when sharing becomes not only a topic of inquiry but a method for conducting it. If every act of sharing is also an act of dividing, what does that mean for how we organise research, produce knowledge, and collaborate across disciplines?
The course is structured as three consecutive days following a dialectical arc. Day 1 explores sharing as anthropological foundation and collective possibility, drawing on commons theory, cohousing traditions, and participatory design. Day 2 confronts how sharing is captured, enclosed, and instrumentalised — through platform capitalism, gendered labour divisions, and the modern drive toward total accessibility and control. This day takes the form of either a full-day masterclass with an internationally prominent scholar, or three focused guest lectures. Day 3 examines commoning as renewed practice: cooperative platforms, multispecies cohabitation, and participatory governance.
Where Caring as Method (2026) explored care as an ethical orientation for research, Sharing as Method shifts the focus to the organisational and spatial dimensions of collective practice. It addresses PhD students from architecture, design, conservation, and adjacent fields, and asks how sharing can become a generative method.
Dates
25-27 of May + 17 June
Venue
Physical attendance, Campus Holmen
ECTS
3
Application deadline
28/03-2027via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php