Aggregate then Curate

#Pararchive Leeds University 2015 Fred Garnett Drew Whitworth

Participatory Curation

a model for integrating curation and the story-telling of communities

“MOSI-ALONG; personal narratives about economic history in Manchester

during a recession using #socialmedia”

@fredgarnett @drewwhitworth1Pararchive Conference Leeds University March 27 2015 #pararchive

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TopicsLearner-Generated Contexts GroupAmbient Learning CitiesEmergent Learning ModelMOSI-ALONG projectPartnership Building in ManchesterEverything is a MetaphorDigital Cabinets of CuriosityAggregate then Curate

Aggregate then Curate; full paper

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Learner-Generated Contexts GroupCame together in 2006 to develop post-Web 2.0 models of learningCreated Open Context Model of Learning 2007; a multi-context open pedagogy to help design learning in new contexts like cities…Ambient Learning Manchester; can #socialmedia transform contexts so learning can take place everywhere?Open Context Model of Learning

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What is aLearner-Generated Context?

”A Coincidence of Motivations leading to Agile Configurations”

Or new open Partnerships leading to new social Processes…

Participatory Curation

What is an Ambient Learning City?

A new layer of the City, not a property

An affordance of new, social media

Enabling post-institutional emergence

Supporting context-responsive learning

An open, adjacent platform that may allow

transformation to the network society

BUT Ambient Learning City was designed

to test multi-context learning so Mosi-Along

Social Cities of Tomorrow

Participatory Curation

Mosi-Along in Manchester

Partnership linking Manchester University,

MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry),

Community Centres (ArcSpace, MadLab),

Community Learning (LSEN, Libraries)

Social Media (People’s Voice Media)

Social Groups (Salford History Group)

Cultural Spaces (Cornerhouse) for…

Digital Storytelling about economic

histories creating possible futures

Participatory Curation

Learner-Generated Context Research Group interested in;

”Problematising the context space & inventing new

solutions”

Creating Development Frameworks

Participatory Curation

#MosiAlong project Manchester

The project rethought cultural relationships

between community & institution with;

Participative curatorial strategies using

Social objects (Nina Simon);

“Social objects (owned by participants) are

transactional, facilitating exchanges among

those who encounter them” enabling an

“object-centred sociality” (Engestrom)

Allowing redefinition of storytelling tropes

The Participatory Museum

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New metaphors / new relationships

The Participatory Curation problem is;

Cultural participation prescribed by experts

Promoting expertise-centred hierarchies

We needed new metaphors as well as

A cultural object-centred sociality

We needed to learn anew how to design for

city-centric emergent processes,

Using *new* metaphors such as…

Everything is a Metaphor

Participatory Curation

Digital / Cabinets of Curiosities

Participatory Curation

Why Digital Cabinets of Curiosities?

1. Cabinets of Curiosities predate Museums

2. Then; New Artefacts! New collections!

Promoting New futures! A mystical fascination

3. Now; museums curate & codify traditional

collections. Promoting old histories :-(

Let’s build Digital Cabinets of Curiosities

Rewrite our narrative relationships with cultural

objects that we own and choose to share…

1835 Museums Act 1870 Education Act

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New Metaphors New Narratives;

Examples in Social Media Festival 9/2011

1. Films about Digital Cabinets of Curiosities

2. Manchester Ship Canal Artefacts on Facebook

3. A realtime History of Manchester in 100 Objects

(Google Doc celebrating Manchester positively

during riotous times)

More on MOSI-ALONG Blog

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"The very act oftelling your story possesses power

The end result is that... we become courageous”

Do Stories – Bobbett Buster

Digital Cabinets of Curiosity 1

Julia’s personal Cabinet of Curiosities

Digital Cabinets of Curiosity 2

Daniel’s computer games Cabinet of Curiosities

Digital Cabinets of Curiosity 3

A (riotous) history of Manchester in 100 objects

Digital Cabinets of Curiosity 4

Betty’s Bits n Bobs Cabinet of Curiosities

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Using inclusive #socialmedia processes designed

to capture emergent behaviour such as

Aggregate then Curate

A social media participation model derived from

object-centred sociality

Enabling public narratives based on

Users aggregation of their own objects…

Curated around personal narratives

Capturing city histories to share…

Aggregate then Curate

Aggregate then Curate; Emergence

Integrating the Physical & the Digital with Social Media

Aggregate then Curate; Final version

As applied to Mosi-Along, ascribing roles, responsibilities & values

Aggregate then Curate; Final version

This is the point at which learning pathways are embedded:

a point of tension between the informal and formal

Analysis of critical issues in moving informal interest-driven activities into formal structured processes

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Mosi-Along Project learnt that;

Learning can be context-responsive BUT you

have to create new processes for new contexts

Culture is based on old narrative histories

Social media allow new narratives

People relate through networks/communities,

Cities are built on institutional public spaces

We need networks that allow personal stories

to be re-written in new digital public spaces

Participatory Curation

a model for integrating curation and the story-telling of communities;We developed;New social, media partnershipsNew context-responsive metaphorsNew social media trainingNew processes for capturing participationUnderstoodHow to apply andragogy & heutagogyThe need for a Digital Public SpaceThe utility of Social Scrapbooking

Participatory Curation

a model for integrating curation and the story-telling of communities

But, as Terry Gilliam says in Brazil;

“Information Retrieval is Expensive”

Ambient Learning City; Resources

Links

Aggregate then Curate Research Paper

Mosi-along Blog

Emergent Learning Model

Participatory Museum; Social Objects

RunCoCo Community Collections

Aggregate then Curate

Digital Cabinets of Curiosities

Social scrapbooking; Bibblio & xtlearn.net

Aggregate then Curate

Contact; fred.garnett@gmail.comdrew.whitworth@manchester.ac.uk

Ambient Learning City; Networks

Smart Cities / Networked Society / Participative

Democracy

So these require 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 & support new answers;

If we design for appropriation by our citizens

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Emergent Learning Model;

A new underpinning model of smart 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

Emergent Learning Model