Societies at the edge
Participatory Systems Initiative
Homo Mensura(human being as measure of all things)
Homo Mensurabilis(measurable human being)
Humanitas Mensurabilis(measurable human kind)
New Paradigm of Human Experience
Communities of Systems and People
High Trust Low Trust
Participatory Surveillance
Evolving meta design paradigm
Potential to transform dynamics of power
To conquer > to maintain > to nurture
To control > to direct > to orchestrate
To follow > to deliver > to contribute
To delegate > to mandate > to participate
To make > to produce > to personalize
To craft > to design > to meta-design
How to design for the possibility to act and accept responsibility in complex network environments?
• design for trust: social acceptance, transparency, security, integrity, resilience, robustness
• design for autonomy: empowerment, self-management and emergence
• design for engagement: belonging, agency, co-creation
Health
Energy
Crisis
Food
Water
Transport
Merging Social, Technological, Ecological realities
YUTPA framework: Factors for measuring trade-offs for presence and trust in individual human experience
to be with You in Unity of Time, Place and Action
Trade-offs for trust and truth
Presence research
Things go wrong: Society at the edge
• Ubiquitous monitoring of behaviour
• Personal networks are transparent; power networks
are opaque
• One can be suspect until proven innocent
• Deviant behaviour is immediately detectable
• All devices have built in spyware, malware
installations via upgrades of software
• Invisible abuse of power and disdain of human rights
Liberties are at stake
• to communicate
• to do transactions
• to move
Who are future social scientists?
• Maximizing psychological input?
• Making social algorithms for big data?
• Defining deviant behaviour?
• Facilitating local-global interaction?
• Deconstructing data power?
• Designing engagement?
• Streamlining the masses?
Frame social sciences:
• For high trust participatory contexts?
• For low trust surveillance contexts?
Include systems dynamics:
• Locality of data
• Transparency of ownership
• Transparency of agency
• Trace-ability of data
• Identify-ability of data
• Trust
• Poly-centricity
• Power and governance
Social Layer
Distributed ICT
Infrastructure
Brazier 2011
Engage with art and design:
• Art as research
• Design as research
• Value sensitive design
Just in Time Technology
Humanitas Mensurabilis
Image: Mecky van den Brink
THANK YOU
Top Related