Hi Netbehaviourists, Dan McQuillan, who I met last year, is an interesting activist working at Goldsmiths and he just has written an article in the Guardian about prototyping. Recently, I had a very dynamic conversation with Christian Nold (http://www.softhook.com/) at Pixelcamp at Pxelache (http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/camp12/), in Finland; who is is an artist, designer and educator working to develop new participatory models for communal representation. We discussed whether prototyping projects was a positive way in getting social projects to work more cohesively and in a more grounded way. Christian was not sure it would work, so it's interesting that this article has suddenly arrived. One other reason I'm interested, is because I am wondering whether DIWO could do with being prototyped and what this would mean...
Anyway, here's a bit of info & a link to the article. Could prototyping be the new policy? You can prototype a working project in less time than it takes to fill in an arts funding application, says Dan McQuillan "The hackday approach to prototyping social solutions is emerging all over the shop. Sometimes they're bottom up, like the upcoming Digital Health Hack, or top down, like the Government Digital Service's homeless hackday, or coming sideways out of a traditional NGO, like the first RNIB Hackathon. Stirrings in the arts and culture sector include Culture Hack Scotland and Culture Shift, an international collaboration between the Social Innovation Camp and the British Council. Projects arising from such hackdays follow the path of the lean startup. They aim to get a minimum viable something-or-other out into the world, to test it against real needs. Like the web they're in permanent beta – never finished, always adapting. Practitioners are, like AppsforGood, following the pedagogy of Paulo Freire by critically engaging with transforming their reality." http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2012/may/28/prototyping-replaces-policy-arts-culture -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
