Citizen-Generated Contexts

@fredgarnett #CityZens Bristol 2nd April 2016

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Social action

Cultural regeneration

Property speculation

Complex social-practices as “extra-institutional structuring”

(or) Structuring Social Media 4 CityZensMunicipality Smart

CityParticipatory City 2.0

City City Hall Real-time City Hall

Distributed City Hall

Institution Bricks & Mortar

Clicks & Mortar

Arch of Participation

Street Tarmac Wifi/Digital Context Engineering

Strategy Urban Plan Urban Vision

Collaborative Vision

Citizen-Generated Contexts; topics

Learner-Generated ContextsAmbient Learning CityCitizens & Participation e-Enabling or Transformational?Metaphors (dynamic)Extra-Institutional Structuring;Complex-Social PracticesCitizen-Generated Contexts

Learner-Generated Contexts

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Web 2.0from

Access(to technology)

toContent

(digital/divide User-generated content YouTube/blogs)

toContext

(Context-shaping / Dialogical activities)

Web 2.0 & Learning

We formed Learner-Generated Contexts group (2006)“A coincidence of motivations leading to agile configurations”Open Context Model of LearningUsing a “development framework” the PAH Continuum

P A HTeacher

School

Teacher/Learner

Learner

Research

Cognition Epistemic

Cognition

Meta-Cognitio

n

Adult

Pedagogy Andragogy Heutagogy

From Andragogy to Heutagogy Pedagogy Andragogy Heutagogy Continuum

Pedagogy the institutionalisation of learning around facts, resource scarcity, subject disciplines; education as a delivery system (cognition)

Andragogy negotiated, collaborative, interest-driven learning brokered into ‘open’ spaces – at best the community is the curriculum (meta-cognition)

Heutagogy self-determined learning where learner creativity enables innovation (epistemic cognition)

Learning could now be…

context shaping

Challenging boundaries; Making Curricula, Organisation, Administration Liminal

“Technology is the essence of politics”

But are we e-enabling or transforming?

Ambient-Learning City

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Can we treat the City

As a range of Learning Environments?

Social Cities of Tomorrow

Some AnswersNew metaphors

New relationshipsObject-centred sociality

Participative curatorial strategiesAggregate then Curate

Post-institutional thinkingParticipatory Cities

Citizens & Participation

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Citizens & Participation

Current participation on Politics; 30%& Voting describe as “participation”Is the choice between smart phones as fantastic technology for diversion?OR Clictivism seeming to be involved with saving everything but absent from place?Or can we use #socialmedia to help structure new relationships?

Rem Koolhaas “fantastic technology”

Evgeny Morozov To save everything; click here

e-Enabling or Transformational?

Citizen-Generated Contexts

e-Enabling or Transformational?Ben Hammersley ‘Towards an Internet of People (2011)Hierarchies vs Networks…

Informations Systems in Society; Hierarchical Business Information Systems vs Everything is Miscellaneous (Weinberger)

(after Taxonomies “information-retrieval is expensive” Brazil 1984)

Development FrameworksOpen Context Model for Learning, included a “development framework” The PAH Continuum;*Pedagogy – subject mastery*Andragogy – interpersonal facility*Heutagogy - enabling creativity

Development Frameworks as “an intermediate structuring process”First as a Heuristic then as a Design Tool

P A HTeacher

School

Teacher/Learner

Learner

Research

Cognition Epistemic

Cognition

Meta-Cognitio

n

Adult

Development Framework as Design Tool

Heuristic Framework for CityZensMunicipality Smart

CityParticipatory City 2.0

City City Hall Real-time City Hall

Distributed City Hall

Institution Bricks & Mortar

Clicks & Mortar

Arch of Participation

Street Tarmac Wifi/Digital Context Engineering

Strategy Urban Plan Urban Vision

Collaborative Vision

Caroline Haythornthwaite on Social Networks

Social Networks offer us strong ties & weak ties Social change comes from a collaborative mix of ties

The Stygmergy of Swarming#socialmedia as extra-institutional structuring…

Meta-Phors…

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Everything is a Metaphor @fredgarnett“deconstruct our currently structuring language use”

Ambient Learning City; Emergence

Digital / Cabinets of Curiosities

Ambient Learning City; Emergence

Digital Cabinets of Curiosities

Cabinets of Curiosities predate MuseumsThen; New Artefacts! New collections!Promoting New futures!Now; museums curate traditional collectionsPromoting old histories :-(Let’s build Digital Cabinets of CuriositiesRewrite our narrative relationships with cultural objects that we own and share

Extra-Institutional Structuring

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Participatory Curation

Learner-Generated Context Research Group interested in;

”Problematising the context space & inventing new

solutions”Creating Development Frameworks, new tools &

extra-institutional structuring…

Aggregate then Curate

#Pararchive Leeds University 2015 Fred Garnett Drew Whitworth

Ambient Learning City; New Models

Aggregate then Curate; Social Media Participation Model

Complex Social Practices

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Complex Social Practices

Social Media Learning Models Violeta SerbuHE use of #socialmedia is based on; 1. Tools, 2. Learning Environments, &3. Complex Social Practices… (CROS)In our comparison of CROS & #WikiQualsWe realised that theComplex Social Practices… Come FIRST…

CROS as Complex Social Practice

Existing Complex Social Practices

Transition Towns, Local Assemblies, MakeSense Meetups, GovCamps, CityCamps #Occupy, Free Schools, Ragged University, UK great @ alt.history

Complex Social Practices

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Social action

Cultural regeneration

Property speculation

Low-tide walks Deptford Creek

Complex Social Practices

Mobility & the City; THEN!…Smart Mobs “ ad-hoc, self-organised, networks of grassroots users of fast comms, challenge existing tech, regulatory regimes & industries” Rheingold 2002 as was… Urban Tapestries (Proboscis) City as MaterialBut Rheingold referenced the Japanese i-Phone, but instead NOW! we havethe iPhone…So proprietary instead of #Open #lastfridaymob

Citizen-Generated Contexts…

Citizen-Generated Contexts

Citizen-Generated Contexts…

We can define CGSs as“structured social media enabling purposeful public agency”With structure social media as extra-institutional structuring &And purposeful public agency fromNew complex social practices…(Ta Aaron Tobey! – Cincinnati)

enabling #participatory City Futures

So, how do we engage with this social change process as it affects us day-by-day?How do we frame our thoughts on the kind of cities we want to live in?Web 2.0 holds potential for participation But existing organisations want more of the same (same as <the past only more intense)Transition Cities or privatised Municipalities?

Build the Society that Pleases You Most

#makesense

BY Solving the problem that annoyed us most

#WikiQuals; self-accredited learning TEDx

Phillipa Young - TEDx

enabling #participatory City Futures

Some ideas from Origin of Spaces (EU)ZAWP – BilbaoRolling process of hyper-local partnerships, permanently debating w/the council “from action to process”LX Factory – LisboaHyper-cool Coworking hub, designing in a social mix. “Hoxton in a factory” a “post-welfare state” solutionROJC – Pula Rebuilding Civil Society (post Civil-War) through NGOsDarwin – Bordeaux Ecological transitions to a sustainable economy

Co-creating Coworking Spaces

“from action to process”

#oosEU

Participatory City Futures

On the design side we need…Development Frameworks to help the dialogical design of The city we choose to live in! Both for

Network Society & City 2.0 or…

CityZens Context EngineeringDevelopment Framework for Network Society

Citizen-Generated Contexts…

We need a “distributed, citizen-centric, diverse, democratic, political architecture”Positively designed for EmergenceWhere people say“How can I participate?” NOT“What can I buy?”

Citizen-Generated Contexts or

Before and After Smart Cities @fredgarnett