Hi Jaromil,
ahh - just booked my tix and arriving on the 22nd. Bummer...
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
> > 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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Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
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