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What happens when your local WhatsApp group goes completely off the rails? �
GOOD NEIGHBOURS is a tongue-in-cheek immersive experience and a social design project that reveals the hilarious and uncomfortable truths about neighbours and their surveillance tools.

GOOD NEIGHBOURS is weaving together live performance, technology and placemaking to spark conversations about safety and inclusion in neighbourhoods. The project addresses a key problem in cities: social profiling that is being normalised by communities and enabled by domestic surveillance technologies. At the heart of this issue is a global explosion of commercial surveillance tools including platforms like Nextdoor and WhatsApp; smart doorbell cameras such as Ring and Nest; and automotive surveillance tools like the Tesla-cam. In general, domestic surveillance threatens social cohesion in neighbourhoods. If left unchecked, citizen-led surveillance can easily escalate from fear and paranoia into rampant civic policing and vigilantism in neighbourhoods. GOOD NEIGHBOURS is motivated by one key design speculation: Can neighbourhood surveillance networks be reimagined as networks of trust and inclusion?

The GOOD NEIGHBOURS live performance, based on a specific neighbourhood and guided by an app, has been part of three neighbourhoods: Layerthorpe in York (UK), Transvaalbuurt in Amsterdam and Lombok in Utrecht.

GOOD NEIGHBOURS received support from the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the City of Amsterdam.

GOOD NEIGHBOURS has been nominated for a Golden Calf Digital Culture 2021 and the Dutch Design Award, category Design Research 2021.

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