Social Cities of Tomorrow
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Social Cities of Tomorrow Ambient Learning City
@fredgarnett Amsterdam February 17 2012 #SCOT12
Social Cities of Tomorrow
Ambient Learning City Background Context Emergence Participation Networks @fredgarnett Amsterdam February 17 2012 #SCOT12
Social Cities of Tomorrow
The Challenge How can social media transform contexts so cities support network society post-institutional learning & Participatory Democracy? Ambient Learning City offers ideas
Ambient Learning City Background What is an Ambient Learning City? A new layer of the City, not a property An affordance of new, smart, media Enabling post-institutional emergence Supporting context-responsive learning An 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 learning Post-Bologna process for i2020 integrating; Informal; self-organising smart mobs Non-formal; content-curation as learning Formal; post-hoc accreditation OR Smart Mobs + Everything is Miscellaneous = Here Comes Everybody
Smarter Mobs
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 using Social 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 hierarchies We needed new metaphors as well as A culturally object-centred sociality We 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 Museums Then; New Artefacts! New collections! Promoting New futures! Now; museums curate traditional collections Promoting old histories :-( Let’s build Digital Cabinets of Curiosities Rewrite our narrative relationships with cultural objects that we own and share
Ambient Learning City Emergence New narrative relationships such as Aggregate then Curate A social media participation model derived from object-centred sociality Enabling public narratives based on User aggregation of their own objects‌ Curated around personal narratives Capturing city histories to share Using a 7-stage model‌
Ambient 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; Participation Mosi-Along Project learnt that; Learning can be context-responsive Culture is based on old narrative histories Social media allow new narratives People relate through networks, but Cities are built on institutional public spaces We 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 & knowledge We need to put context back into knowledge Cities 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 Need; New metaphors New relationships Object-centred sociality Participative curatorial strategies Aggregate then Curate Post-institutional thinking Participatory Cities
Ambient Learning City; Resources Links Mosi-along Blog Emergent Learning Model Participatory Museum; Social Objects RunCoCo Community Collections Aggregate then Curate Digital Cabinets of Curiosities Contact; fred.garnett@gmail.com
Social Cities of Tomorrow
@fredgarnett