​Together with the project partner Off-University, we are conceptualizing this digital knowledge archive as a place that gathers global repertoires of living together and facilitates dialogue between a diversity of university and non-university knowledge actors. This is a both theoretical and practical search for ways to have digital infrastructure support collaborative academic writing and publishing.

In the framework of the project I also plan to explore local repertoires of living together and extend by expertise on the mahalle in Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire to Central and South Asia. Albeit its meaning changes greatly between regions, mahalle/mohalla/mahalla is the idea of a neighbourhood governed by a ethically, ethnically, professionally, sometimes even religiously homogeneous, but socio-economically heterogeneous community. Often it is the locus of practices that are locally passed on and autonomously controlled practices that define the rules of neighborliness and  living together.