Participatory Culture + Design Grace + Randa
Map overview
Participate Helen Armstrong
Participatory Culture at Work:
Hand-drawn animated music video with each frame drawn by a different person using embedded drawing tools to create a collective music video. It represents Cash’s continued existence, even after his death, through his music and his fans. The work continues to grow and evolve as more people participate. A collaboration with director Chris Milk.
Helen Armstrong – Participate Questions:
Perspective: Designer/Educator
What is the relationship between collaboration and participation? Is a participator not an equal collaborator?
What my role is as a Designer? “That of a leader, an educator, who enables the work of others, elevating their creations by contextualizing them within a larger goal. (She) is in a sense, the creative director of a decentralized, largely untrained workforce.” You can choose to become an expert in one area, or you can choose to oversee a larger designed system, or you can choose to do a million other things! I personally like the idea of identifying with design in that way? Do you?
…could anything be turned into a participatory project? Would anything be interesting if it was completed in a participatory fashion?
Convivial Toolbox Liz Sanders & Pieter Stappers
Participatory Research at Work:
Liz Sanders – Convivial Toolbox Questions:
Perspective: Design Research
How can co-creation as a mindset in the front-end be helpful in creating designs that are more representative/and or helpful to the people being served? What happens when the designer tries to be an expert on everything? What are the possible consequences?
Is co-creation as a mindset not an option as the tool approach is described to simply be?
What are the occasions when a completely participatory design approach would be more appropriate than other approaches? and how can I (as a designer) develop a sensitivity to this decision making?
Wealth Yochai Benkler
Peer Production at Work:
“The power of the web to answer such an encyclopedic question comes not from the fact that one particular site has all the great answers…The power comes from the fact that it allows a user looking for specific information at a given time to collect answers from a sufficiently large number of contributions.”
Yochai Benkler – Wealth Perspective: Business
Questions: What are the value and meaning sources of motivation in a p2p economy? What I find interesting about this stigmergic system are the social and psychological theories of motivations that drive the participants to engage in process as a whole. What are they? And how would they not differ from participant to participant depending on their cultural background? If what we deem meaningful or valuable is dependent on a user’s cultural, class, demographic background, what would be the underlying or overarching “common good” or “value determinant” that encapsulates all human motivation? If there are fundamental human values what are they? The search for logic, reason, peace?
The Cathedral & the Bazaar Eric Steven Raymond
Open Source at Work:
Possible, Potential, Plausible. - Miguel Nóbrega
“Possible, Plausible, Potential is a set of three series of isometric drawings generated by code and printed with colored markers on a plotter machine. In these drawings, Miguel explores a bridge between the iterative aspect of algorithms and the utopian aspect of modern architecture. Each drawing is a unique variation of the same set of rules and carefully placed random decisions.”
Eric Raymond – Cathedral + Bazaar Perspective: Programmer
Questions: Do these outlier uses of software validate what Eric Raymond is saying? Can end users who are non-coders have a positive impact on software direction when the request is to stray off the path?
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd
Participatory Culture at Work:
Henry Jenkins – Participatory Culture Questions:
Perspective: Communication
How can we design for different modes of engagement? What are some examples on this being done well? How about poorly?
Is all culture participatory culture? “aren’t all cultures, in this sense, participatory cultures?” As participants in any culture, to what extent should we care about what other people think? And to what extent should we consider the ways that caring affects our behaviors as we participate?
Activity Time! 1. Finish the prompt: “When I was was a teenager…” With a story from your childhood. This will remain somewhat anonymous but should be something you don’t mind sharing with others/ being displayed. 2. Copy and paste into the shared google doc. 3. Respond to the story underneath yours in red.
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What is participatory culture? 1. 2. 3. 4.
Low barriers to participation Strong support for sharing Informal mentorship Members who feel that their contributions matter and care about others’ participation 5. Where members feel some degree of social connection with one another
- Henry Jenkins
co-creation peer production generative design participatory design Helen Armstrong
Eric Raymond
free software
Henry Jenkins
open source participatory culture Yochai Benkler
internet stuff
other stuff
Liz Sanders participatory design
art stuff
participatory culture
Grace + Randa
MAPZ
DADAISM / MARCEL DUCHAMP
THE OPEN WORK -UMBERTO ECO
HAPPENINGS -FLUXUS
|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------|----------------THE DAWN OF TIME
1950s
OPEN SOURCE RICHARD STALLMAN
1960s
ERIC S. RAYMOND READING
1970s
YOCHAI BENKLER READING
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ARMSTRONG READING
2007
LIZ SANDERS READING
HENRY JENKINS READING [participatory design]
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2012