Hi everyone,
We're hosting an exciting talk this week, please spread the word and join!
Christoph
May 7th, 12 - 1 pm (EST)
Speaker: Marcos García, MediaLab Prado Director 2014 - 2020
Online event: please register here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dci-talk-a-planet-of-citizen-laboratories-tick…> for the zoom link.
In this talk, Marcos García (Director of the Medialab Prado during 2014-2020) will talk about the distributed citizen laboratories project, a project that started in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will hear about their approach and of outstanding projects developed by hundreds of volunteers in response to the pandemic.
Marcos García works in the field of citizen laboratories. He worked at Medialab Prado. Between 2004 and 2006 he was responsible for the educational and mediation program of MediaLab Madrid together with Laura Fernández, where they promoted the Interactivos Project, a collaborative prototyping workshop format that served as the basis for the development of Medialab Prado and its citizen laboratories methodology. Between 2007 and 2014 he was responsible for the cultural program of Medialab Prado together with Laura Fernández, and between 2014 and 2021 its director.
In 2020 Marcos designed, with the collaboration of Diego Gracia, the Distributed Citizen Laboratories project focused on citizen innovation in libraries and other cultural institutions, an initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Medialab Prado to promote the creation of citizen laboratories and cooperation between them, during the Covid-19 crisis. This initiative is part of the Library Laboratories, a program of the Ministry of Culture and Medialab Prado to promote libraries as places of collaboration, experimentation and creation of cultural projects and citizen innovation.
About the Medialab Prado<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medialab-Prado>
The media lab Prado was<https://www.eldiario.es/madrid/levy-desplaza-medialab-prado-emblema-innovac…> a cultural space for open experimentation. The Lab aimed at co-creating city commons through diverse initiatives, such as the Participa LAB (Collective Intelligence for Democracy), the DataLab (open data initiative), and the InciLab (Citizen Innovation Lab).
The lab had become an emblem of cultural innovation for Europe and the World, with a number of international awards and recognitions. For instance, in 2016, their collaborative culture was awarded <https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/politicas_culturales/europa-premia-cultura-…> the Princess Margriet Award by the European Culture Foundation. Further, the lab guided the creation of dozens of citizen laboratories in the Americas.
Hello all,
Andrew Clement has put together a very promising set of events on the basis of the TechOtherwise<https://techotherwise.pubpub.org/> report (Defund Big Tech) that I shared earlier this year.
These are hosted at Ryerson CFE, no censure there :)
I think these are interesting to many of us and our students. Please spread the word.
Best,
Christoph
From: Andrew Clement <andrew.clement(a)utoronto.ca>
Sent: May 18, 2021 7:01 PM
Subject: Announcing event series on "Taming Big Tech", starting this Wednesday (tomorrow)
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce an event series I’ve organized with Ryerson U's Centre for Free Expression<http://cfe.ryerson.ca/> (CFE) called Taming Big Tech: Exploring the Alternatives. As the title suggests, it’s based on our "Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Anti-Trust is Not Enough, Another Tech is Possible”<https://doi.org/10.21428/93b2c832.e0100a3f> statement.
We have 3 events scheduled so far:
In Conversation with Cory Doctorow,<https://craphound.com/> SF author and digital rights activist How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Seize the Means of Computation<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-seize-mea…> (May 19, 4pm EDT)
In Conversation with Meredith Whittaker,<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Whittaker> ex-Googler and Co-founder/Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU<https://ainowinstitute.org/> - "Take Control of Algorithms, Data, and Infrastructure”<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/take-control-algorithms-data-and-infrastructu…> (June 2, 4pm EDT)
Panel on Defund Big Tech, Refund Community<https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/defund-big-tech-refund-communities> with Lilly Irani UC San Diego; Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar, MIT Media Lab; and Dawn Walker, UofT (June 10, 4pm EDT)
Could you pass this on to anyone you think may be interested.
Thanks,
Andrew