Emerging digital practices of communities (ADIK) (Arjen digitalisoituvat kaytannot in Finnish) ADIK, was a research project of the Arki research group in the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TAIK) that runed from 2004 until 2007.
An important aim of the project was to understand different ways in which new digital tools give room to the emergence of new practices and, conversely, how people through their practices transform and complement these new tools.
To reach these goals the project explored various community practices and how they evolve in interaction with the rapid development of digital technology.
During the course of the project several product and services concepts for home and community applications were developed and evaluated through scenarios, workshops, demonstrations and pilots in close collaboration with different communities of
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