Dear Air-L members, I would like to share my recently published article : Sandra Álvaro (2019) "A topological space for design, participation and production. Tracking spaces of transformation", Journal of Peer Production, Issue #13 http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issues/issue-13-open/peer-reviewed-paper... In this study, I applied the tool Hype - developed at the Media Lab at Sciences Po- to tracking the online relations between hackerspaces within the general web. Furthermore, I applied network analysis to answer some research questions concerning the mapping of global and local relations and the collective projects shared across different Hackerspaces. One of the anonymous reviewers defends the opinion that: " The quantitative analysis presented in this article is interesting to some extent but not sufficient to support the ambitious concepts put forward in the introduction.". I would like to take advantage of this comment and open a discussion with the members of this community about the significance of quantitative methods for dealing with questions concerning big communities and complex assemblages. Also, How these methods could be complemented with qualitative methods. I will appreciate any comment and lecture recommendation. Best regards, Dr Sandra Álvaro