Citizen Laboratories and Digital Humanities

Given the growing popularity of laboratories as spaces for innovation, we present a framework of reference on the fundamentals that characterize them and explore their possibilities of incorporation into the academy, particularly in the field of digital humanities. We start from the hypothesis that the digital humanities in Spanish-speaking Latin America can recover some of the contributions of citizen laboratories to expand their reach through the incorporation of new actors and methodologies; establish a critical position against the dominant systems of knowledge production in the humanities on our current geopolitical scenarios; and design, make visible and recognize models and alternative loci of production, circulation and consumption of knowledge. Therefore, this article aims to characterize the culture of the laboratory and analyze the possibilities of its appropriation to promote processes of production of open knowledge in university environments, and in particular in the field of Ibero-American digital humanities.