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 ==== Data Ecologies 14 - various notes ====
 notes from the 2014 edition of [[:data_ecologies]] (as extrapotaed during http://timesup.org/DE14 and http://timesup.org/DE14-booksprint)
+further details and edits -> http://wiki.physicalnarration.org/wiki/index.php/DE14
-=== Time's Up ===
+==== Time's Up ====
-- 5-6 data ecologies so far
+  * 2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far
   * originally computational systems and ecology
   * now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation
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   * misusing and misinterpret terms and phrases
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   * 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
-=== Scott Smith ===
+==== Scott Smith ====
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   * Unshocking the future
   * pragmatic perspective: having to solve problems in a concrete way
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   * we need a vocabulary to have a better conversation
-=== Peter von Stackelberg ===
+==== Peter von Stackelberg ====
   * using transmedia storyworlds 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://hassenzahl.wordpress.com
   * 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
-=== FoAM ===
+==== MITI ====
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+Transmedia storytelling (to type up from notebook...)
+==== FoAM ====
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   * written notes on [[FoAM at Data Ecologies 2014]]
-=== Trevor Haldenby ===
+==== Trevor Haldenby ====
   * Mission Business: interdisciplinary: theatre, games, futurist, play theorist. now moving to become experiential futures consultancy - not so much for mass audiences
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-=== 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"
   * Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated
+  * http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/
+(NOTE by the note taker: i expected to insert a link to the video that was played, as Julian couldn't make it, but it seems the link is private... I'm afraid I didn't //take any notes while the video was playing...)//
+==== Justin Pickard ====
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+  * "in sync?", work in progress
+  * futures field - pretence of objectivity, expertise, de-politicised…
+  * you won’t change foresight… great deal of ambivalence, not all futurists are like this
+  * 'futurist as a label' - how do you orient yourself in the futures space
+  * problematic - neutrality, view from nowhere, or view from above
+  * "gods eye view, the arc" to gods eyes views - meddling helenic gods - rationality + playful/chaotic side of things
+  * google maps - no fixed borders - it depends where you’re looking from
+  * donna haraway - "situated knowledge"
+  * professionalisation of foresight - dangers of group think, compulsory passage points - a power of gatekeepers to the profession
+  * "professionalisation is killing art"
+  * specialists or generalists? tradeoffs - generalists need to work with people who complement your knowledge; specialists - injokes, inbreeding, no bridging points
+  * you have to become like a pufferfish - weird and spiky… - bruce sterling
+  * social, communal deal with uncertain futures
+  * sociology of expectation
+  * legacy of the futures that get out - "where is my jetpack" - persistence of 70s and 80s futures visions
+  * futures go through cycles and rear their heads again when you don’t expect
+  * cycles of technology development "Gartner Research" (May 2003), Moore’s law - simplification, but becomes socialised - the statement made real - self fulfilling prophecies by people ' who have the 'special knowledge' - performative statements that run out in the world and begin running amok
+  * performativity & performance (Judith Butler - gender studies) - utterances, actions have effects that you might not have expected
+  * wizzard of Oz
+  * legibility (James Scott: Seeing like the state)
+  * Danah Boyd "Social Stenography: learning to hide in plain sight (2010) - who are the audiences, who gets the meanings?
+  * 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
+  * how do we currently deal with uncertainty? - through the lens of risk, boiling it down until it can be quantified in numbers - dangerous - mistaking what is unknown and unknowable for something we can deal as a probability
+  * 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
+  * "masons, tricksters and cartographers" - a book on building cathedrals in the middle ages - learning by doing - taking sometimes over a century
+  * 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)
+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
+  * hydra: what becomes stronger through attach - what is anti-fragile? you don’t want to be a hercules, you want to be a monster
+   * creativity in crisis? networks with a lot of redundancy
+  * superstruct, justing game master for the 'outlaw planet'
+  * 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 1/2 % 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
+  * anarchist calystenic - getting uses to breaking laws - begin with jay-walking, reclaiming agency, getting comfortable lying to bots…
+  * 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 'occupy' disaster recovery - tactical not strategic
+  * amplified teams - pooling energies and cooperating using software
+  * #quadrantconfusion (real-real, real-fake, fakereal, fake-fake)
+  * 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" - making sense of science in policy and politics, but other hats are also available
+  * disasters can open up weird little autonomous spaces, solidarity, shared adversity - a platform on which we start building stuff
+====summaries, conclusions, digressions...====
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+  * towards electrolyte supplements for the booksprint
+  * entry points/rabbitholes and the ethics around disclosure and consent. advocate for compassionate methods
+  * from the 'suspension of disbelief' toward the 'active engagement of belief'
+  * expand on various methods to distil and surface discussions -> harvesting (metaphor -> as 'least unpleasant' or 'part of a cycle')
+  * weirdness and confusion (intermittent recurring themes)
+  * structure <-> vagueness
+  * agile methods as potential
+  * x.ref 'exploratory forecast'
+  * 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, gulf futures, ASIS futures, etc+
+  * "futures and foresight is dissolving" time for sharpening tools may be over, seep into other relevant domains
+  * comparative value in refining methods or connecting to other domains?
+  * "socialisation of awareness"
+  * "walking backwards into the future" (c.f. Dougald Hine Promethean / Epimethean view )
+  * explore intrinsic sources of motivation rather than relying on extrinsic sources
+  * "old elements finding new homes"
+Booksprint: summary of the seminar, extending discussions, distilling issues
+Possible topics to expand in the booksprint: reaching out, the ethics of on-ramps, how to integrate people compassionately, ethnography of experiential futures, actively investing belief in an experience, surfacing stories that live in communities, lead ins and lead outs from a futures experience, weirdness, confusions, structure-vs-antistructure, preciseness vs vagueness, politicisation, literacy, education, impact on people in the long term, harvesting information as a part of a whole lifecycle of people’s engagement in futures, playfulness, enabling situations, call creating, disappointments when a future doesn’t happen, what happens as hope disappears, agility, future as a dynamic complex system rather than a point in time, iteration and adaptation, anti-fragility, exploratory forecasts, a wide range of futures to move away from dystopia, how to teach the processes and methods of futures thinking, issues of scale (permaculture principles, fractals, acupuncture, NNNI), ethics, critical theory of futures, consider positions of priviledge, dissolution and re-absorption of foresight, future of futures, socialisation of futures (of observation, awareness, filtering, synthesizing, storytelling and communication), how can we stitch together foresight and other practices, where you experiment the lab is, what is the motivation, historical perspective (walking backwards into the future), humour, different perspectives and modalities (and everything above)
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