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==== Data Ecologies 14 - various notes ==== | ==== Data Ecologies 14 - various notes ==== | ||
- | notes from the 2014 edition of [[: | ||
+ | notes from the 2014 edition of [[: | ||
- | === Time's Up === | ||
- | 2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far | + | Audio recordings of the talks can be found at -> http:// |
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+ | further details and edits from the dilgent TU note takers -> http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Time's Up ==== | ||
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+ | (see also http:// | ||
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+ | * 2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far | ||
* originally computational systems and ecology | * originally computational systems and ecology | ||
* now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation | * now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation | ||
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* misusing and misinterpret terms and phrases | * misusing and misinterpret terms and phrases | ||
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* lots of everyday materials (razors, love letters, radio station, boxing match in the 30s…) | * lots of everyday materials (razors, love letters, radio station, boxing match in the 30s…) | ||
* future fabulators: future scenarios and bringing them into everyday life, freedom of exploration | * future fabulators: future scenarios and bringing them into everyday life, freedom of exploration | ||
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- | === Scott Smith === | + | ==== Scott Smith ==== |
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* Unshocking the future | * Unshocking the future | ||
* pragmatic perspective: | * pragmatic perspective: | ||
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* calibrate uncanniness | * calibrate uncanniness | ||
* guide the audience toward a future | * guide the audience toward a future | ||
- | * "if it is too weird, it will be dismissed as art, and if too normal, it will be effortlessly assimilated" | + | * "if it is too weird, it will be dismissed as art, and if too normal, it will be effortlessly assimilated" |
* getting people to talk to us about how they explored different pieces (both unknowingly and knowingly) | * getting people to talk to us about how they explored different pieces (both unknowingly and knowingly) | ||
* different people reacted differently to it | * different people reacted differently to it | ||
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* we need a vocabulary to have a better conversation | * we need a vocabulary to have a better conversation | ||
- | === Peter von Stackelberg === | + | |
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+ | ==== Peter von Stackelberg ==== | ||
* using transmedia storyworlds to shape the future | * using transmedia storyworlds to shape the future | ||
* we have to communicate better - we must tell stories about the future to shape the future | * we have to communicate better - we must tell stories about the future to shape the future | ||
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- | === Eva Lenz === | + | ==== Eva Lenz ==== |
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* http:// | * http:// | ||
* Designing the intangible side of things - experience design approach to industrial design | * Designing the intangible side of things - experience design approach to industrial design | ||
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* need to make a shift from having technology as a starting point to needs and experiences as the beginning | * need to make a shift from having technology as a starting point to needs and experiences as the beginning | ||
- | === FoAM === | + | ==== MITI ==== |
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+ | Transmedia storytelling (to type up from notebook...) and http:// | ||
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+ | ==== FoAM ==== | ||
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* written notes on [[FoAM at Data Ecologies 2014]] | * written notes on [[FoAM at Data Ecologies 2014]] | ||
- | === Trevor Haldenby === | + | ==== Trevor Haldenby ==== |
* Mission Business: interdisciplinary: | * Mission Business: interdisciplinary: | ||
* design experiences to bring futures to life for audiences who want to explore, interact… | * design experiences to bring futures to life for audiences who want to explore, interact… | ||
* digital / transmedia storytelling & strategic foresight | * digital / transmedia storytelling & strategic foresight | ||
- | * strategic foresight at OCAD - embedded in the oldest of arts and design institutions in Canada | + | * strategic foresight at OCADU - embedded in the oldest of arts and design institutions in Canada |
* i hear and i forget (written scenarios), i see and i remember, i do and i understand - confucius | * i hear and i forget (written scenarios), i see and i remember, i do and i understand - confucius | ||
* Rafael Popper - how are foresight methods selected (2008) | * Rafael Popper - how are foresight methods selected (2008) | ||
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* didn’t manage to do a large scale ethnographic research about how people experienced the project - maxed out schedules | * didn’t manage to do a large scale ethnographic research about how people experienced the project - maxed out schedules | ||
* big nut to crack: how to integrate ethnographic engagement with the audience - in the narrative and metanarrative level - harvesting information about the process | * big nut to crack: how to integrate ethnographic engagement with the audience - in the narrative and metanarrative level - harvesting information about the process | ||
- | * ZED.TO | + | * ZED.TO |
- | ZET.TO ByoLogic | + | ZED.TO: ByoLogyc |
- | * simulation of the end of the world, lifestyle biotech, what would a ByoLogic | + | * simulation of the end of the world, lifestyle biotech, what would a ByoLogyc |
* futures driven by people involved | * futures driven by people involved | ||
- | * involving actors from improv (comedy) and military | + | * involving actors from improv (comedy) and military |
- | * synthetic pandemic immune deficiency disaster | + | * synthetic pandemic: immune deficiency disaster |
* 4 major live interactive performances - 4 archetypal futures | * 4 major live interactive performances - 4 archetypal futures | ||
* 4 tracks / paths through the story - adventure (evacuee), power (paramilitary), | * 4 tracks / paths through the story - adventure (evacuee), power (paramilitary), | ||
- | * online narrative - versatile intern program | + | * online narrative - Versatile Intern Program |
- | * graphic novel in e-ink (backstory | + | * graphic novel in e-ink (backstory) |
- | * videos vimeo.com/byologica | + | * videos: vimeo.com/byologyc |
- | * byologic.com | + | * byologyc.com |
* apps for facebook and twitter - simulate spread of disease through social networks | * apps for facebook and twitter - simulate spread of disease through social networks | ||
* funded through indiegogo, awards… | * funded through indiegogo, awards… | ||
* becomes interesting when it began involving the movers and shakers in the synthetic biology world (e.g. pink army cooperative) | * becomes interesting when it began involving the movers and shakers in the synthetic biology world (e.g. pink army cooperative) | ||
- | * most interesting collab. with Synbiota - open source synthetic biology | + | * most interesting |
* bringing the future to life: http:// | * bringing the future to life: http:// | ||
- | Autodesk Shadowfall | + | Autodesk |
- | * continuation | + | * extension |
* www.byologyc.com/ | * www.byologyc.com/ | ||
- | * how a company might oversimplify decisions with biotech | + | * how a company might oversimplify decisions with biotech, strong AI, asteroid mining, exobiology |
* is there a benefit to keeping forecasting as boring as possible - corporate clients don’t want to make artefacts and results publicly available - worrysome related to ethics and agency | * is there a benefit to keeping forecasting as boring as possible - corporate clients don’t want to make artefacts and results publicly available - worrysome related to ethics and agency | ||
- | * interesting to create a shared storyworld made up of all the stories in a database - corporate clients don’t want this to happen | + | * interesting to create a shared storyworld made up of all the stories in a database - corporate clients don’t |
- | === Julian Bleecker === | + | ==== Julian Bleecker ==== |
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Video of the current works at the Near Futures lab: "A Catalog Of An Extraordinary Future When It Becomes An Ordinary Today" | Video of the current works at the Near Futures lab: "A Catalog Of An Extraordinary Future When It Becomes An Ordinary Today" | ||
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* Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated | * Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
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+ | (NOTE by the note taker: i expected to insert a link to the video that was played, as Julian couldn' | ||
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+ | ==== Justin Pickard ==== | ||
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+ | * "in sync?", | ||
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+ | * futures field - pretence of objectivity, | ||
+ | * you won’t change foresight… great deal of ambivalence, | ||
+ | * ' | ||
+ | * problematic - neutrality, view from nowhere, or view from above | ||
+ | * "gods eye view, the arc" to gods eyes views - meddling helenic gods - rationality + playful/ | ||
+ | * google maps - no fixed borders - it depends where you’re looking from | ||
+ | * donna haraway - " | ||
+ | * professionalisation of foresight - dangers of group think, compulsory passage points - a power of gatekeepers to the profession | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * specialists or generalists? | ||
+ | * you have to become like a pufferfish - weird and spiky… - bruce sterling((https:// | ||
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+ | * social, communal deal with uncertain futures | ||
+ | * sociology of expectation | ||
+ | * legacy of the futures that get out - "where is my jetpack" | ||
+ | * futures go through cycles and rear their heads again when you don’t expect | ||
+ | * cycles of technology development " | ||
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+ | * performativity & performance (Judith Butler - gender studies) - utterances, actions have effects that you might not have expected | ||
+ | * wizzard of Oz | ||
+ | * legibility (James Scott: " | ||
+ | * Danah Boyd " | ||
+ | * strategy and tactics of revealing (game of Go - trying to surround the opponent) - foresight used to be about strategy, now how can it work as tactics | ||
+ | * where are all the travel agents gone? civil society comes up from the bottom up… the wilderness coming into the domestic space | ||
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+ | * how do we currently deal with uncertainty? | ||
+ | * liminal interstate that’s not market, nor state, but liminal, slightly illegal or vague | ||
+ | * doing nothing is very hard, you never know when you’re finished - maybe we don’t need to always take action | ||
+ | * divination, ritual, tarot, astrology - what have you not been looking at - making sense through patterns | ||
+ | * laboratory methods - bruno latour - chemical experiments to generate knowledge out of - uncertainty removed from the equation | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * experiments enacting the laboratory - tuning infrastructure - lab is where experiments happen | ||
+ | * dan williams @iamdanw, stress testing, finding loopholes law-art-practice | ||
+ | * sarah @ablerism - researching signage and ramps in history | ||
+ | * superflux - consultancy and lab (business legible and more playful) | ||
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+ | dealing with uncertainty | ||
+ | * juggad - tinkered together vehicle - it’s a solution to a problem using scarce means | ||
+ | * shanzai in china - solutions through piracy and stealing | ||
+ | * socialisation of uncertainty - our decisions make the world more uncertain for others | ||
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+ | * hydra: what becomes stronger through attack - what is anti-fragile? | ||
+ | * creativity in crisis? networks with a lot of redundancy | ||
+ | * superstruct, | ||
+ | * synchronation of expectation - consensus grows bottom up | ||
+ | * if you give players the freedom and surrender control, you get interesting emergent characteristic | ||
+ | * jessica @jessginger - delphi party - getting everyone’s friends and family to get consensus | ||
+ | * iceland 0.5% of icelands’ population in one room - figuring out what it means to be icelandic? attempt to crowdsource the constitution - spiked… opening up the space for dialogue, changed the narrative… | ||
+ | * urban acupuncture - architecture should do small strategic interventions in public space, making energy flow better | ||
+ | * zine culture | ||
+ | * @gininnovation - discussing innovation with gin, interviewing people in spaces you like | ||
+ | * gonzo journalism | ||
+ | * disruption of conversations and narratives going in a particular direction | ||
+ | * James Scott "the law of anarchist calisthenics" | ||
+ | * be the change you want to see in the world - occupy, the way you live reflects the kind of future you want to live in the world - bootstrapping infrastructure - how do ' | ||
+ | * amplified teams - pooling energies and cooperating using software | ||
+ | * # | ||
+ | * in what cultural context is it appropriate to lie? when are hoaxes ok, where are the edges? | ||
+ | * OEEA - earth as a system without borders - sending evil capitalists into space, they might come back hippy-ish | ||
+ | * unruliness - being weird at people - what is unacceptable | ||
+ | * The Bridge -eco-terrorist pathos… | ||
+ | * Roger Pielke "The honest broker" | ||
+ | * disasters can open up weird little autonomous spaces, solidarity, shared adversity - a platform on which we start building stuff | ||
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+ | ====summaries, | ||
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+ | {{> | ||
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+ | * towards electrolyte supplements for the booksprint | ||
+ | * entry points/ | ||
+ | * from the ' | ||
+ | * expand on various methods to distil and surface discussions -> harvesting (metaphor -> as 'least unpleasant' | ||
+ | * weirdness and confusion (intermittent recurring themes) | ||
+ | * structure <-> vagueness | ||
+ | * agile methods as potential | ||
+ | * x.ref ' | ||
+ | * ways of addressing processes at various scales. permaculture principles -> multiplicity of techniques. fractal selfsimilarity or storyworlds | ||
+ | * references for writing on critical futures (cf. critical theory, richard slaughter and critical futures, [[integral futures]]) further references to relationship with futures and power | ||
+ | * constraints on practice (varieties of domain specificity) | ||
+ | * escaping the filter bubble -> afrofutures, | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * comparative value in refining methods or connecting to other domains? | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * explore intrinsic sources of motivation rather than relying on extrinsic sources | ||
+ | * "old elements finding new homes" | ||
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+ | Booksprint: summary of the seminar, extending discussions, | ||
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+ | Possible topics to expand in the booksprint: reaching out, the ethics of on-ramps, how to integrate people compassionately, | ||
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