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 ==== Data Ecologies 14 - various notes ==== ==== Data Ecologies 14 - various notes ====
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 notes from the 2014 edition of [[:data_ecologies]] (as extrapotaed during http://timesup.org/DE14 and http://timesup.org/DE14-booksprint)  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 ====
  
-2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far+ 
 +  * 2003 - 5-6 data ecologies so far
   * originally computational systems and ecology   * originally computational systems and ecology
   * now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation   * now: primarily about abstraction & concretisation
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   * misusing and misinterpret terms and phrases   * misusing and misinterpret terms and phrases
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   * future fabulators: future scenarios and bringing them into everyday life, freedom of exploration   * future fabulators: future scenarios and bringing them into everyday life, freedom of exploration
  
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-=== Scott Smith ===+==== Scott Smith ==== 
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   * Unshocking the future   * Unshocking the future
   * pragmatic perspective: having to solve problems in a concrete way   * pragmatic perspective: having to solve problems in a concrete way
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   * we need a vocabulary to have a better conversation   * we need a vocabulary to have a better conversation
  
-=== Peter von Stackelberg ===+ 
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 +==== Peter von Stackelberg ==== 
   * using transmedia storyworlds to shape the future   * using transmedia storyworlds to shape the future
   * we have to communicate better - we must tell stories about the future 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   * http://hassenzahl.wordpress.com
   * Designing the intangible side of things - experience design approach to industrial design   * 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   * need to make a shift from having technology as a starting point to needs and experiences as the beginning
  
-=== MIT-I ===+==== MITI ====
  
-Transmedia storytelling (to type up from notebook)!+{{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14255891411/}} \\
  
-=== FoAM ===+Transmedia storytelling (to type up from notebook...)
  
-{{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14259096175/}}+==== FoAM ==== 
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   * written notes on [[FoAM at Data Ecologies 2014]]    * 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   * 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 ====
  
 {{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14259106555/in/photostream/}} {{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14259106555/in/photostream/}}
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-=== Justin Pickard ===+==== Justin Pickard ====
  
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   * "professionalisation is killing art"   * "professionalisation is killing art"
   * specialists or generalists? tradeoffs - generalists need to work with people who complement your knowledge; specialists - injokes, inbreeding, no bridging points   * 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+  * you have to become like a pufferfish - weird and spiky… - bruce sterling((https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/comp_game_designers.article))
  
   * social, communal deal with uncertain futures    * social, communal deal with uncertain futures 
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   * performativity & performance (Judith Butler - gender studies) - utterances, actions have effects that you might not have expected   * performativity & performance (Judith Butler - gender studies) - utterances, actions have effects that you might not have expected
   * wizzard of Oz   * wizzard of Oz
-  * legibility (James Scott: Seeing like the state)+  * legibility (James Scott: "Seeing like a State")
   * Danah Boyd "Social Stenography: learning to hide in plain sight (2010) - who are the audiences, who gets the meanings?   * 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   * 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
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   * if you give players the freedom and surrender control, you get interesting emergent characteristic   * 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   * 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…+  * iceland 0.5% 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   * urban acupuncture - architecture should do small strategic interventions in public space, making energy flow better
   * zine culture    * zine culture 
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   * gonzo journalism    * gonzo journalism 
   * disruption of conversations and narratives going in a particular direction   * 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…+  * James Scott "the law of anarchist calisthenics" - getting used 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   * 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   * amplified teams - pooling energies and cooperating using software
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   * disasters can open up weird little autonomous spaces, solidarity, shared adversity - a platform on which we start building stuff   * disasters can open up weird little autonomous spaces, solidarity, shared adversity - a platform on which we start building stuff
  
-===summaries, conclusions, digressions...===+====summaries, conclusions, digressions...==== 
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   * towards electrolyte supplements for the booksprint   * towards electrolyte supplements for the booksprint
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 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)  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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