social cities of tomorrow 2012
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Presentation on the MosiAlong project for Social Cities of Tomorrow Conference Amsterdam February 17th 2012TRANSCRIPT
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; Emergence
Examples in Social Media Festival 9/2011
Films about Digital Cabinets of Curiosities
Manchester Ship Canal Artefacts on Facebook
A History of Manchester in 100 Objects(Google Doc celebrating Manchester positively during riotous times)
More on MOSI-ALONG Blog
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; [email protected]
Social Cities of Tomorrow
@fredgarnett