Riding the Algorithm is a research and design project that repurposes delivery workers' data to create a 'digital commons'—a collective repository of information owned and governed by the riders themselves. The project emerges from a collaboration between the artist, delivery workers in South London, the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union (London) and RidersXDerechos (Spain). It responds to the 'black-boxing' of management algorithms. Currently, platforms extract real-time data from workers making profit of their labor, and of the mapping of such labor. 
The project centers on Sabot, an open-source mobile application designed to subvert this power asymmetry. While platform apps isolate workers by concealing their colleagues and optimizing value from their repeated actions, Sabot repurposes data collection to inform riders' decisions, to contribute to the community of care on the road and generate greater capacity to collectively organize. By treating social and collective knowledge as a shared resource, the project challenges the extractive logic of surveillance capitalism and seeks to allow riders to become active agents who ride the algorithm to their own advantage.
A prototype was developed in conversation with riders in 2022, who defined its features, experimenting and questioning new forms of political organization under datafied and distributed workspaces. As a tool, but also in the process of its development, Sabot calls for political engagement with the social relations that underpin automated management. This requires an active effort dismantling and reimagining the social and political structures from which platform capitalism emerges, and to design alternative forms of technology rooted in collective autonomy.

Sabot – Riding the Algorithm by Júlia Nueno Guitart 
Independent workers of Great Britain: Joe Dunbridge, Kevin Mendez
RidersXDerechos: Felipe Diez Prat, Nuria Soto, Felipe Corredor
With support from: Visual Arts and Critical Thinking Grant in 2022 (Department of Culture of Catalunya); Matadero Intermediae 

Júlia Nueno Guitart (ES) is a researcher and engineer. Her work explores the computational systems that organize life and the spaces we inhabit, with the goal of developing new ways of understanding and acting with and through them. She is currently a member of the Forensic Architecture team and is pursuing her PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths (University of London), where she also teaches on the master's program in the same discipline. She is the editor of Genocidios. Una lectura Forense (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2025), and her articles and opinion columns have appeared in Der Spiegel, The Guardian, VICENews, SpringerIn, FabrikZeitung, and VersoBlog.

Sabot is an app-based project that rethinks the role of data within the gig economy. Built in collaboration with delivery workers, it transforms self-generated data into a shared resource, countering platform models that isolate individuals and maximize productivity. By aggregating real-time information on routes, demand, and working conditions, the app enables forms of collective awareness and coordination that challenge algorithmic management. Rather than optimizing individual performance, Sabot fosters a distributed intelligence grounded in cooperation. In doing so, it proposes a digital commons where data becomes a tool for negotiation and agency, pointing toward new forms of worker-led infrastructures within platform economies.