From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Wed Jun 9 19:31:05 2021 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 19:31:05 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?q?Wicked_Problems=2C_Tech=2C_and_the_Com?= =?utf-8?q?munity_--_Community_Day_=E2=80=94_FREE?= Message-ID: Ooops! Late getting this out… Please help by forwarding this announcement to appropriate groups… Ongoing collective intelligence for the common good work!! Thanks for your help. Community Day will take place *virtually* on June 20, 2021, the day before the regular sessions of the Communities and Technologies conference . Community Day is FREE to the public. Please register ASAP to reserve your place and help us with our planning. Community Day is intended to help inform the research community about the practice community—and vice versa. It was going to be in the physical city we call Seattle but other phenomena intervened. This is the first time the C&T conference is offering a Community Day and we hope to learn from our successes (and mistakes) for future Community Days. *Wicked Problems, Tech, and the Community* Our purpose is to encourage productive conversations in which academics and researchers directly interact with community members and activists about the tools they need and their views and experiences with technology. Community Day will be a day of mutual learning as both groups have specific useful knowledge and insights that the other group might not have. The idea is to help bring deeper understanding of the realities of communities and technologies by focusing on those issues as they are manifested in the host city. Community Day should be of interest to anybody who is interested in community and its relation to technology. It should be of special interest to community organizers, social service and other professionals, community tech practitioners, journalists, educators, artists, activists, community managers, and all others with a stake in community life. Many issue areas are relevant but issues such as social justice, inclusion, democracy and misinformation, environmentalism, public health, homelessness and displacement, and labor rights are likely to be on the agenda. Finally, it is our hope and intention to help move this work forward via our findings and our new relationships. *9:30 - 10:45 Panel Discussion ~~~ Seattle Facing Wicked Problems* Panelists from diverse perspectives will present their projects and discuss their relation to tech—positively and negatively—and what might be able to be done about it. * Maru Mora Villalpando, Co-founder and community organizer, La Resistencia * Miranda Marti, co-lead, 350 Seattle Maritime Solutions Team * Roxanne White, Missing and Murdered Indigenous People / MMIP and Their Families *10:45 - 11:00 Break* *11:00 - 12:30 pm Workshops* We are offering three workshops, each of which is intended to help inspire and empower researchers and community members. Registration in advance for these workshops is encouraged because they will have limits on how many people can participate. (contact us at communityday at comtech.community for the Design Fiction or Design Creativity workshops.) Animating Climate Campaigns: Using the *Liberating Voices *Pattern Language to Connect and Start New Initiatives; Organized by Aldo de Moor, Douglas Schuler. [call for participation ] [registration ] Design Fiction for Smart Cities in Seattle and Beyond; Organized by Konstantin Aal and Tanja Ertl Design Creativity; Organized by Natasha Tylosky and Priscilla Van Even *12:30 - 1:30 Community Lunches * Not necessarily "lunch" but a break from the formal events for various groups to meet up. At this point we have established a community lunch for graduate students who are working in the community and technology field and one (or more) for people who want to keep the workshop discussions going but we will set up other "lunches" as requested. *1:30 - 2:30 Moving Forward with Communities and Technologies* In this session we will consider the various discussions and themes of the day and look towards the future. Three researchers-practitioners, Chris Coward (University of Washington), Jasmine Jones PhD (Berea College), and Lisa Nathan (University of British Columbia) will also introduce ideas and proposals that they think are needed if Communities and Technologies is to be successful as not only a field of research but as a field that works intentionally with others, inside and outside of academia to help address the wicked problems of the 21st century. -- 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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