From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Thu Jan 9 18:34:41 2020 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 18:34:41 -0800 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Please take a look... The Green New Deal is the Real Deal Message-ID: Happy New Year! We hope... As some of you know I've been working on an article tentatively called "The Green New Deal is the Real Deal." I'm now in the process of getting feedback on the paper. Please let me know if you think you might even be the tiniest bit interested and I'll send you a copy! The paper makes the case that patterns and pattern languages could be very useful for helping to loosely coordinate a big Green New Deal meta-project working across various boundaries that includes state and non-state actors, small and large actors, formal and informal actors. I suspect that this sort of focus is critical — and that the pattern language approach could help supply this. If you're not familiar with the topics your feedback might be even more useful since I've included background information on the basic concepts. Thanks so much for considering this! — Doug PS. Aldo de Moor and Justin Smith and I are working on a more ambitious piece called (tentatively) "Can Pattern Languages Help Us Address Wicked Problems? A conceptual framework based on patterns and pattern languages" in which we lay out ideas for helping to make the use of patterns and pattern languages generally more accessible, useful, and widely known. The idea is that this current paper can help pave the way to approaching the "wicked problems" paper. -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hfinidori at yahoo.com Fri Jan 10 05:41:40 2020 From: hfinidori at yahoo.com (Helene Finidori) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Please take a look... The Green New Deal is the Real Deal In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <18986935.11188012.1578663700171@mail.yahoo.com> Hi Doug, Nice to hear from you! Happy new year. Were you at the Plop conference in Ottawa? I unfortunately had to cancel because of health issues. I would love to read your paper on the Green New Deal. And I am also interested in the paper on wicked  problems, especially if there are technology solutions involved. This is a topic I have been researching for a while. We have talked about it in the past, I also met Aldo for a project on Patterns that Connect. I'm now engaged in a PhD research on Pattern Literacy and how it can support systems literacy and system intervention -a philosophy / theoretical framework-, the challenge being to bridge the gap between fragmented knowledge and language -both in kind and in perspective-, and the increasing intricacy of emergent 'reality' at various levels and scales. I'm particularly interested to document in my thesis technologies that can assist in this matter. I have laid out lots of 'requirements' -:P- but still have not found what I believe would be needed. But lots of progress certainly has beenmade since I was more  actively searching... All my work is available on my Academia.com page. In particular: Towards a Fourth Generation Pattern Language: Patterns as Epistemic Threads for Systemic Orientation (Purplsoc 2015) Patterns that Connect: Exploring The Potential of Patterns and Pattern Languages in Systemic Interventions Towards Realizing Sustainable Futures. (ISSS2016)Configuring Patterns and Pattern Languages for Systemic Inquiry and Design (Purplsoc 2018). I'll be in LA for a conference at the end of January, before I go back to France for good end of March. Where are you currently based? Would love to catch up! BestHelene On Thursday, January 9, 2020, 9:34:57 PM EST, Doug Schuler wrote: Happy New Year!   We hope...   As some of you know I've been working on an article tentatively called "The Green New Deal is the Real Deal." I'm now in the process of getting feedback on the paper. Please let me know if you think you might even be the tiniest bit interested and I'll send you a copy! The paper makes the case that patterns and pattern languages could be very useful for helping to loosely coordinate a big Green New Deal meta-project working across various boundaries that includes state and non-state actors, small and large actors, formal and informal actors. I suspect that this sort of focus is critical — and that the pattern language approach could help supply this. If you're not familiar with the topics your feedback might be even more useful since I've included background information on the basic concepts. Thanks so much for considering this! — Doug PS. Aldo de Moor and Justin Smith and I are working on a more ambitious piece called (tentatively) "Can Pattern Languages Help Us Address Wicked Problems? A conceptual framework based on patterns and pattern languages" in which we lay out ideas for helping to make the use of patterns and pattern languages generally more accessible, useful, and widely known. 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All main sessions will be held in parallel (morning in Los Angeles, evening in Bristol), with local events in addition to these main sessions. LIMITS in the UK will be co-located with ICT4S. LIMITS 2020 aims to reach computing researchers outside of the LIMITS community who might ask: "what does research in a LIMITS future look like?" Suppose the ideas of LIMITS have diffused throughout both computing research and broader society, such that LIMITS 2030, ten years from now, need not exist as a separate venue. What would researchers and engineers be building in that future world? To reach this audience, we solicit papers on "future systems". Such systems are socio-technical systems that are responsive to the LIMITS 2030 world that might exist. This year we specifically discourage "critical", "analysis", and similar types of papers. A future systems paper concerns the design, implementation, and/or evaluation of a real tool, system, app, or any other artifact situated in a future (year 2030) world. Such contributions would be of a flavor that could be imagined to be published in a more applied venue of computing (e.g., UIST for HCI researchers, NSDI for networked systems researchers, etc.). That is, if the researchers from more-applied, less-critical areas of computing were to shift their topics of interest to align with this envisioned world of 2030, what would they build? Empirical evaluation is strongly encouraged; papers without an empirical evaluation are acceptable if they provide substantial evidence regarding the practical usefulness of the future system(s) described. We look to a classic vision outlined by Donella Meadows (see LIMITS website for details) for the future world of 2030 papers should be placed within. That is, authors should imagine that one or more of the economic, societal, business, energy, and other changes that Meadows describes here are already coming into being, but require computing to help them take shape. *** Abstract registration deadline: March 6, 2020, 11:59pm Pacific Time Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2020, 11:59pm Pacific Time Paper reviews available: April 10, 2020 Camera ready deadline: May 15, 2020 *** Program Co-Chairs: Oliver Bates, Lancaster University, o.bates at lancaster.ac.uk Barath Raghavan, USC, barath.raghavan at usc.edu -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! 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The Media Architecture Biennale is the world’s premier event on media architecture, urban interaction design, and urban informatics, bringing together world-renowned architects, artists and designers, leading thinkers on urban design, key industry and government representatives, and students. The event offers workshops, symposia, a conference with an academic research track and keynotes by leading thinkers in the field. It closes off with a ceremony in which the biennial Media Architecture Awards will be presented to outstanding works of art, architecture and design. Our aim is to provide an excellent forum for debate and knowledge exchange; to offer a unique opportunity that brings together the best minds and organisations and to highlight state-of-the-art and experimental research in media architecture. MAB20 invites papers from academics, students, and industry practitioners that align to the theme Futures Implied and the sub-themes described below. The paper contributions should address current practices, discuss theoretical approaches, or present novel research that explore and further develop our understanding of media architecture through relevant case studies, design processes, and community and industry examples. MAB Theme: Futures Implied The theme for the Media Architecture Biennale 2020 is Futures Implied. Papers should address one or more of the following issues: * The Aesthetics and Poetics of Responsive Urban Spaces: How can media architecture contribute to a sense of place, deepening citizens’ understanding of and attachments to local sites and making them more legible, imaginative, and inclusive? * Citizens’ digital rights in the era of platform ecologies: How can media architecture articulate public values and allow citizens to govern through digital platforms, rather than be governed by them? * Playful & Artistic Civic Engagement: How can media architecture help to enact people-centric interventions through which citizens themselves learn, negotiate, and create innovations through play and games? * Restorative Cities: How can media architecture enable societies to regenerate socially, ecologically, and physiologically on multiple levels, from the individual to the city as an entity of systems? * More-Than-Human Cities: How can media architecture move beyond its legacy of human-centric design, and foster and embrace the well-being of the natural ecosystem as a whole? Important dates * Paper submission deadline: 5 April 2020 * Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2020 * All revisions due and Camera Ready paper deadline: 20 September 2020 Preparing your submission * The conference invites research presentations from both academia and industry: * We invite papers with a minimum of six and a maximum of ten pages in length, in ACM format; * The papers should clearly explain the research question addressed, research methods and tasks, findings or results, and contributions of the work. Papers should also provide sufficient background and related work to situate and contextualise the authors’ work within a greater body of research; * Submissions should consist of original work not previously published or concurrently under consideration for any other conference, workshop, journal, or other publication with an iSBN, iSSN, or DOI number; * Authors must provide a 30-word contribution statement for their paper upon submission; the contribution statement should explain the contribution made by the paper to the Media Architecture community; * Papers will be peer-reviewed by multiple members of a program committee consisting of experts in a range of disciplines that shape media architecture; * Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (approval pending). Paper submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/mab20. Submit by 5 April 2020. About the Media Architecture Biennale The Media Architecture Biennale is an initiative of the international Media Architecture Institute (Vienna/Sydney). After editions in Vienna, Aarhus, Sydney and Beijing, it is now organized by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with Utrecht University and a number of local partners from governments, cultural institutions, and the creative industries. Close ties to both research and industry are a central element of these events. MAB20 will take place in Utrecht and Amsterdam, November 23-27, 2020. An overview of all current and upcoming calls (Workshops, Papers, Demos & Posters, Late Breaking Work, Student Exhibition, Media Architecture Awards) can be found at our website. www.mab20.org. More information & Contact Twitter: @MABiennale. Facebook: facebook.com/MABiennale. Website: http://www.mab20.org. For inspiration, please have a look at the papers from MAB 2016 and MAB 2018: https://mab16.org/pages/conference.php https://mab18.org/conference/ We are looking forward to receiving your submissions Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Queensland University of Technology (Paper Chair) Joel Fredericks, The University of Sydney (Paper Chair) Dr Joel Fredericks | Lecturer Design Lab | Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning The University of Sydney Wilkinson Building G04, 148 City Road, NSW 2006 e: joel.fredericks at sydney.edu.au | w: joelfredericks.com | t: @mistaricks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: