Matt Ratto

Assistant ProfessorDirector

Critical Making LabFaculty of Information

University of Toronto, Canada

Matt Ratto

Assistant ProfessorDirector

Critical Making LabFaculty of Information

University of Toronto, Canada

SHIFT

ExpertsProducersProprietary

NoviceConsumers

Open Access

AbilitiesOpportunities

ExpertsProducersProprietary

NoviceConsumers

Open Access

AbilitiesOpportunities

EngageMaterial & Conceptual Critique

SHIFT

Tux PhoneProject

2005

Open Development of Cell Phone OS and Hardware

by Deva Seetharam (France Telecom Research) and Surj Patel

Tux PhoneProject

2005

Open Development of Cell Phone OS and Hardware

by Deva Seetharam (France Telecom Research) and Surj Patel

Tux PhoneProject

2005

Open Development of Cell Phone OS and Hardware

by Deva Seetharam (France Telecom Research) and Surj Patel

YochaiBenkler

YochaiBenkler

“Commons-based Peer Production”

YochaiBenkler

“Commons-based Peer Production”

YochaiBenkler

“Commons-based Peer Production”

Hipster

YochaiBenkler

“Commons-based Peer Production”

Hipster

“User-generated Content”

POTENTIALLY great

POTENTIALLY great

+

POTENTIALLY great

+Socio-Technical Reflection & Critique

Critical MAKING

3- Material

4- Conceptual

reconnecting

“Critical design is related to haute couture, concept cars, design propaganda, and visions of the future, but its purpose is not to present the dreams of industry, attract new business, anticipate new trends or test the market. Its purpose is to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the aesthetic quality of our electronically mediated existence.”

Anthony Dunne

ConstructivistMethodology

Materiality of Knowledge Making & Sharing

CRITICAL MAKING LAB

Research, Teaching & InfrastructureMaterial Semiotics of Digital Information

Winter 2008, Toronto

Activity: Critical Making

Topic: Critical Information Issues

(intellectual propertyprivacy

questions of embodiment)Subjects:

Masters StudentsKit:

Arduino

“How can we draw together matters of concerns so as to offer to political disputes an overview, or at least a view, of

the difficulties that will entangle us every time we must modify the practical details of our material existence?”

Bruno Latour