SHAPE Digital Activism focuses on the activist potentials of computation and networks. The overall project aims are to theoretically and analytically understand what democratic civic engagement and participation is in light of digital infrastructural changes; and, derived from this, to also practically and experimentally investigate how 'activist' technological infrastructures potentially create new visions for civic engagement, participation and co-determination. 

Although 'democracy' and 'participation' are perceived by many as a universal ideals, the overall assumption of the project is that the notion of democratic civic participation is intricately linked to a spatial and temporal organization – i.e., an infrastructure – which varies in context and over time. 

The natural question is how infrastructural changes in the form of increased platformization of software and services, datafication of users, products, and the environments, as well as proliferation of artificial intelligence regulate and affect democratic civic engagement, participation and co-determination – that is, what it means to participate, be engaged, and have a say. 

Within interventionist/activist media, software and net art there is a long tradition of critically reflecting participation, engagement, and co-determination in light of technological and infrastructural changes. The project's theoretical and analytical understandings are therefore based on analyzes of current cultural infrastructural practices rooted in media, software and internet activism; but in a broader perspective, the intention is also to show, practically, how they can create fertile ground for alternative infrastructures