On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:29:18PM +0200, Matt Ratto wrote:
> Hey Bricos,
>
> Lev Manovich and I are doing an evening workshop in London at the
> IDE
Hi Matt et all,
the day before and more exactly on the 21 april there is also Taxi to
Praxi being held at Goldsmiths as part of node.london 2008
http://nodel.org/new_events.php?ID=158&start=1208768400
the conference is documented online on
http://www.thenextlayer.org/taxi-to-praxi
i'll be happy to see you there, i'm planning to give a new lecture
introducing the concept of "Solid Knowledge", addressing cultural
development of the "European Youth" and (stretching the "Philogenesis
recapitulates Ontogenesis" motto) of what Europe calls "developing
nations".
there will also be a new website soon on solidknowledge.org and .eu
that can also benefit from your active partecipation, everything is
still in a embryonic stage of design.
my ambitious aim for the Solid Knowledge cooperation is to form a
committee of people to set open paths of study and research presented
to the wide internet public and our workshop attendance.
The criteria of "Solid Knowledge" will be the heuristical method
proposed for those paths.
the first introductory text follows, suggestions and criticism are
welcome.
As privatisation of educational structures progresses, the Academy
assumes corporate and business mind-set, while we assist to a shift of
the educational mission in society from inclusive to exclusive. The
influential play of industries has permeated most academical
disciplines, in particular regarding the adoption of technologies. The
choice of educators has become biased by logics of short term profit,
rather than Solid Knowledge.
Notions are rapidly becoming universally available. Heuristic,
maieutic and infrastructure functions provided by Academies are best
satisfied by the global action of free software communities
horizontally sharing methods, experiences, working implementations, on
distributed and versioned R&D platforms.
As components can be combined and redistributed, copied and modified
(GNU GPL) students learn a knowledge that is durable, free from
"intellectual properties" restricting their rights to produce and
redistribute creations. This situation will provide an advantage for
new generations, as it does for developing countries.
ciao
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