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Presentation on the MosiAlong project for Social Cities of Tomorrow Conference Amsterdam February 17th 2012

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Social Cities of Tomorrow

@fredgarnett

Social Cities of Tomorrow

Ambient Learning City

@fredgarnettAmsterdam February 17 2012#SCOT12

Social Cities of Tomorrow

Ambient Learning City

BackgroundBackgroundContextContextEmergenceEmergenceParticipationParticipationNetworksNetworks

@fredgarnettAmsterdam February 17 2012#SCOT12

Social Cities of Tomorrow

The Challenge

How can How can social social media media transform transform contexts contexts

so so cities cities supportsupportnetwork network societysociety

post-institutional post-institutional learning &learning &Participatory Democracy?Participatory Democracy?

Ambient Learning City offers Ambient Learning City offers ideasideas

Ambient Learning City Background

What is an Ambient Learning City?

A new layer of the City, not a propertyAn affordance of new, smart, mediaEnabling post-institutional emergenceSupporting context-responsive learningAn open, adjacent platform that may allow transformation to the network society.Based on the Emergent Learning Model

Ambient Learning City Background

Emergent Learning Model

A new model of multi-context learningPost-Bologna process for i2020 integrating; Informal; self-organising smart mobs Non-formal; content-curation as learningFormal; post-hoc accreditationORSmart Mobs + Everything is Miscellaneous = Here Comes Everybody

Smarter Mobs

in Smarter Cities…

in Smarter Cities…

Ambient Learning City; Context

#mosialong project in Manchester

Partnership linking Manchester University, MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry),Social Media (People’s Voice Media)Community Centres (ArcSpace, MadLab), Community Learning (LSEN)Social Groups (Salford History Group)Cultural Spaces (Cornerhouse)Using new metaphors for engagement

Ambient Learning City; Context

#mosialong with Social Objects

The project rethought cultural relationships;Participative curatorial strategies usingSocial objects (Nina Simon); “Social objects are transactional, facilitating exchanges among those who encounter them” enabling an“object-centred sociality” (Engestrom)Allowing redefinition of cultural relations

Ambient Learning City; Emergence

New metaphors / new relationships

Cultural participation is prescribed by experts Promoting expertise-centred hierarchiesWe needed new metaphors as well asA culturally object-centred socialityWe needed to learn anew how to design for city-centric emergence processes,

New metaphors such as…

Ambient Learning City; Emergence

Digital / Cabinets of Curiosities

Ambient Learning City; Emergence

Digital Cabinets of Curiosities

Cabinets of Curiosities predate MuseumsThen; New Artefacts! New collections!Promoting New futures!Now; museums curate traditional collectionsPromoting old histories :-(Let’s build Digital Cabinets of CuriositiesRewrite our narrative relationships with cultural objects that we own and share

Ambient Learning City; Emergence

New narrative relationships such asAggregate then Curate

A social media participation model derived from object-centred socialityEnabling public narratives based onUser aggregation of their own objects…Curated around personal narrativesCapturing city histories to shareUsing a 7-stage model…

Aggregate then Curate; Emergence

Integrating the Physical & the Digital with Social Media

Ambient Learning City; ParticipationMosi-Along Project learnt that;

Learning can be context-responsiveCulture is based on old narrative historiesSocial media allow new narratives People relate through networks, butCities are built on institutional public spacesWe need networks that allow personal stories to be re-written in new digital public spaces

Ambient Learning City; Networks

Smart Cities / Networked Society / Participative Democracy

Which requires us to ask NEW questions of; existing institutions, social relations & the power structures of democracy & knowledgeWe need to put context back into knowledgeCities have multiple ambient contexts which can both allow for & support new answers;If we design for appropriation by our citizens

Social Cities of Tomorrow

Some Answers

We NeedWe Need;;New New metaphorsmetaphors

New New relationshipsrelationshipsObject-centred Object-centred socialitysociality

Participative Participative curatorial strategiescuratorial strategiesAggregate then Aggregate then CurateCurate

Post-institutional Post-institutional thinkingthinkingParticipatory Participatory CitiesCities

Ambient Learning City; Resources

LinksMosi-along BlogEmergent Learning ModelParticipatory Museum; Social ObjectsRunCoCo Community CollectionsAggregate then CurateDigital Cabinets of Curiosities

Contact; fred.garnett@gmail.com

Social Cities of Tomorrow

@fredgarnett

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