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Title: Models for thinking and doing


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Models for thinking and doing
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How we came here
  • Media Computing
  • But how can you make stuff .

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  • Individual Genius ModelCommunity of Practice
    Model

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  • Being alive as human beings means that we are
    constantly engaged in the pursuit of enterprises
    of all kinds, from ensuring our physical survival
    to seeking the most lofty pleasures. As we define
    these enterprises and engage in their pursuit
    together, we interact with each other and with
    the world and we tune our relations with each
    other and with the world accordingly. In other
    words we learn.
  • Over time, this collective learning results in
    practices that reflect both the pursuit of our
    enterprises and the attendant social relations.
    These practices are thus the property of a kind
    of community created over time by the sustained
    pursuit of a shared enterprise. It makes sense,
    therefore to call these kinds of communities
    communities of practice. Etienne Wenger 1998

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Communities of practice
  • What it is about its joint enterprise as
    understood and continually renegotiated by its
    members.
  • How it functions - mutual engagement that bind
    members together into a social entity.
  • What capability it has produced the shared
    repertoire of communal resources (routines,
    sensibilities, artefacts, vocabulary, styles,
    etc.) that members have developed over time.

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  • Learning is, thus, not seen as the acquisition
    of knowledge by individuals so much as a process
    of social participation. The nature of the
    situation impacts significantly on the
    process.So we are all part of multiple
    communities at school, with our friends but also
    special communities of music makers and film
    makers etc.In this there is a concern with
    identity, with learning to speak, act and
    improvise in ways that make sense in the
    community. Wenger

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Defining Social Capital
  • Whereas physical capital refers to physical
    objects and human capital refers to the
    properties of individuals, social capital refers
    to connections among individuals social
    networks and the norms of reciprocity and
    trustworthiness that arise from them. In that
    sense social capital is closely related to what
    some have called civic virtue. The difference
    is that social capital calls attention to the
    fact that civic virtue is most powerful when
    embedded in a sense network of reciprocal social
    relations. A society of many virtuous but
    isolated individuals is not necessarily rich in
    social capital. (Putnam 2000 19)
  • Social capital consists of the stock of active
    connections among people the trust, mutual
    understanding, and shared values and behaviours
    that bind the members of human networks and
    communities and make cooperative action possible.
    (Cohen and Prusak 2001 4)

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Creative Practitioners
  • Skills
  • Knowledge
  • Innovation
  • Community Reputation
  • Contacts

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Major themes / communities
  • The BodyPhysical ComputingLocative
    MediaPerformanceCommunityOpen SourceSocial
    networksPower RelationshipsSocially Engaged
    Practice Hacker ScienceCitizen Journalists
    CultureDatabase CultureRelational Aesthetics

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Relational Art
  • An art taking as it theoretical horizon the
    realm of human interactions and its social
    context, rather than the assertion of an
    independent and private symbolic spaceNicolas
    Bourriaud

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Feedback
  • What was missing were multiple approaches to
    analyse a project and how it fits into a wider
    cultural context.
  • Personal association - ExperienceCritical
    theories - Learn themThe difficult thing is
    how to go from critical analysis to making really
    innovate things.
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