#caremakers The co-production of making and caring
Federico Monaco Department of Medicine and Surgery University of Parma
#caremakers INPUT - The co-productionist role of fablabs - Care as a fact of social innovation Menu: ●
- The “fabbrica della cura” (from products to processes) - Organizational culture of WeMake in opencare project (from tasks to situations) - Discussion and conclusions
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#caremakers THE RESEARCH IN NUMBERS: 16 posts published on opencare.cc ● 54 Notes files ● 1320 Pictures ● 225 Videos (91 Gb) ● 41 Audio files ● 283 Screenshots ●
#caremakers 3 MAIN GOALS for tonight: Describing and collect feedbacks and collective intelligence offline (community, classifications, actions) Research on makers role in opencare (plural sector innovation segment and community of practice) Understand practices of care contextualising (breaking the rules of social care... naturalizing social integration)
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Co-production idiom: “the ways in which we seek to know the world both reflect and constitute the ways in which we choose to live in it”
(Jasanoff, 2004) Jasanoff, Sheila. 2004. States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
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Wahlberg, A. (2014) ‘Knowledge of Living’, Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology, 10 November 2014
#caremakers Counterpositions Representation/Practice Zoe/Bios Sound/Silence Social/Technical Neats/Scraffies Hardware/software ...
#caremakers Activity – self referring Inference - self validating
The N – S machine (Barnes, 1983)
Barnes, B. 1983 “Social Life as Bootstrapped Induction” in Sociology, 17(4):524-545
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social/technical “To classify is human” (Bowker, Star, 1999)
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gbowker/classification/
#caremakers Understanding classifying and standardazing “The first two, ubiquity and material texture, speak to the space of actor-networks; the second two, the indeterminate past and the practical politics, speak to their time�. (Bowker & Star, 1996)
http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/class/cas587/readings2/How_things_(actor-net)work_excerpt.pdf
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Makers taking care of stuff!
#caremakers Caremaker for a day
WeHandU: Maker in Residence experience with users
#caremakers Conclusions Urban technography of care Merging people, institutions (healthcare instituions?) and (open!) devices... Heaven as IoT? Makers as joint between institutions and society
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Care & emotions
#caremakers ..the ethnography of cooking..
In the picture maker Sara documenting the lunch ritual
#thankyou monaco.federico@gmail.com
Credits by Chris Collins https://www.chriscollins.it/