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Hacking the public sphere
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Clément Renaud@clemsos
www.sharismlab.com
#sharing, learning,social networks, hack, china, urban...
About Sharism Lab
Sharism Lab is anindependent research centerbased in China experimental methodology & community to empower society by sharing
founded by Isaac Mao
Digital social sphereFrom public to individual sphere
Private
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Public
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WEB
Social
Public sphere & social spaces (cafès, salons...)
Lecture de la tragédie de l'orphelin de la Chine de Voltaire dans le salon de madame Geoffrin. - by Lemmoneit (1812)
Millions of services blooming!
Wikipedia actualises Aufklärung : better knowledge, better society
Diderot & d'Alembert1751-1772
Wikipedia2001- 2012+
Habermascoined the term public sphere ...
Public sphere = production of elite?
... as "bourgeois" : projection of private interests as a public sphere
Technology as areflect of social production
Digital public sphere structure (accumulation)
Who is producing the tools to build this digital public sphere ?
404 : Page not found
Great Firewall in China
Fang Binxing, Chief engineer of the Great Firewall
Appropriation of technologyHow is produced technology? Who owns knowledge?
Build a common memory :
crowd produceSharing to build our public sphere
Crowd are not masses
New way to produce : the crowd-
We-report is a crowdfunding website for news in Chinese
Quoracrowdsource
answers
Crowdfunding support
Jue.so
How to make technologies differently?
Changes in cultural industries Produce less, but more specific
ex. Harvard Book Storeprint-on-demand
Fab Lab : just what you need
Fab Lab in Amsterdam
Small-scale workshop offering (personal) digital fabrication (from Wikipedia)
3d printer for USD 1800created in NYC Resistor print objectssolve problems locallyshare YOUR solution
a a Makerbot
From DIY to DIO
+ produce in small quantity + design products that fit our needs = identify our needs ! + create objects we need / love with others
Arduino provides open-source hardware to create objects.
Answer requests from the market
● local production “made in my city”● very high personalization “made only for
me”● direct customer relation “made by my old
friend in Canada” ● valorization of customer experience “I found
exactly what I needed”● etc.
What about knowledge?
Not everyone is an engineer ! How to use those machine? How to design an object?
Learn at low cost : hack !
China counterfeit products
Shanzhai 山寨
subverting industry copy = create ?
Many universities are now opening their courses online to public audience(MOOC)
Open courses : lifetime learning
From DIY to DIO : Collective individuation
Xinchejian, a hackerspace in Shanghai
Hack to learn, share your skills with society
"Quit your stupid job !"Mitch Altman, father of hackerspaces
Get the meaning back into social
Identify problems around you Involve friends and strangers to solve real-life design problems Create small-scale sustainable business
How to grow plants in 1m²?
From Xinchejian, Shanghai hackerspace
Technology as individuation an ongoing process to become human
Technologies are memories
Technology is an externalization of our memories to face the impossibility of transmission to others Leroi-Gourhan
3 types / scales of memories
Geneticmemory
Externalmemory
Sensitivememory
How tocrowd produce our public sphere ?
How to do it? Should we destroy the machines? Are they friends or foes?
Luddites destroying their work tool
Haps and mishaps of the social brain
Towards cognitive commons
Semantic Web and the machine
● Linked Data● Internet of Things● Smart cities● Ontologies... Semantic Web aims at explaining our human world to the machines (so they can help us...)
Why are we building machines?What should we do with the human?
Are we updating Skynet?
Will robots save the earth?
Technology is not a free gift
Threat AND Salvation
We should face issues before the crash
Keep your things in your pocket ! Control access to your data through different requests (family, friends, boss, marketing company, etc.)
Privacy : Get your data back !build a personal data space
Do you want to share your browsing history for $10 per month?
Maketing company asked :
Social computingPublic data space
Share computing power using existing devices
Create public data spaces
New data geographycreating public space around technology
Photos du projet Dakar Dead Drop Fiction
Social clusteringdistributed structure
A structure reflecting dynamics of group and communities
Digital public spaceshould empower the society
What you need is needed by others. Take the space to make it
Solar powered traffic lights presented in Maker Faire Africa 2010
Describe new models based on common approach
Sharing is an act Sharing is rewarded Sharing is (co-)creating
Sharism
Hack and
share!!
Describe societyIdentify needsSolve problemsChallenge yourselfDefine ideasFind your spaceLearn in doingDesign thingsMake stuffWatch other improve it.... then start again !
@sharimlab
Thanks !
Questions?