Public Space

# Themes

Here are some of the themes worth exploring: - Private Property - Camelot

# Pages of interest

What I'm trying to do here is to create a rhetorical situation what will help writers get themselves organized and help them create content that can be better built on than we've seen before. The idea of Pages as Public Spaces may or may not work.

William H Whyte's book, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, was a landmark study published in 1980 of the way people adapted to the built environment and Movable Furniture of small plazas in larger cities.

This is a page about the function of passing strangers in carrying messages through networks. See also Journeyman:

This is the title of a book published in 1990, transcribing a series of conversations between radical educators Myles Horton and Paolo Friere in 1987. The phrase Freire is quoting is from a poem about pilgrimage by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado. The key ideas in this poem are that the road is made, or emerges, as we walk it, and its impermanence that it disappears as we move on. See Caminante, no hay camino for a brief discussion of the ideas in this poem.

The starting point is Michale Warner, "Publics and Counterpublics, pdf .

Publics are self-organized spaces organized by discourse. They are impersonal, and an organization of strangers. What holds a public together is that it is addressed as a public. That is, what constitutes a public is attention. It's where discourse circulates, and is circulated by. It's made of links. Publics come and go: they are located. And a public calls into existence the world it exists in.

The Distributed Academy aims to create a decentralised Network of Learning Spaces for Flipped Classrooms and Hyperlocal MOOCs

Happenings in physical space are more like workshops than they are lectures or passive viewing experiences. We should explore how we can use these events to film more things, and interview and bring more people into the conversation.

"We [Americans] have nothing as respectable as the French rendez-vous to refer to a public meeting place or a setting in which friends get together away from the confines of home and work" (p.16).

transmediale reboots itself with a new performative and participatory format for its 29th edition. Under the name Conversation Piece, the event creates an intensive space of exchanges, murmurs, and transitions, with dialogues initiated before the event and continued afterwards - transmediale.de

Here we describe the architecture of conversation, in a system or design perspective, not as a singular temporal event but as a network process that occurs across time and space.

This is the theme of the Institute for New Faculty Developers, and I love it. I'm going to use this space for planning instead of the jobby-job G Docs. Every time I open that account I have hateful emails about academic freedom, the tenure portfolios, and robot textbook integrations. Two days a week I need a respite from this evil. I'm An Easy Target Because Nobody Else Listens: A Memoir

The Real Space Association is an international network of physical spaces that have joined forces to explore the potential of distributed events, unConferneces, and hackathons.

Museums, Public Lands, and Billboards: Toward a Philosophy of the World Wide Web. Roger B. Blumberg. Second International WWW Conference '94. archive

Here we explore various ways in in which information spreads, and how information architectures and conversational routing can affect this spread.

I've been meaning for a while to have a discussion about private property with José-Carlos - either as an interview, or ideally by organising a talk in conjuction with [[Casa afds} in Lima.