Taxi-to-Praxi notes: summarizing the morning session

jonasandersson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:55:56 +0200

Armin Medosch: Collecting good points of practice

- Facilitating shared, open and free platforms
- How much work and/or investments are required?
- What drives people to participate?
- Drupal: every item of information a node

Jaromil: Proposal for ‘solid knowledge’

- Co-operation among people active in education
- Try to compile an ontology of possible knowledge paths
- What makes knowledge solid? 4 points for educational institutions;

Notions (actual items of knowledge) – these are increasingly getting available for all
Maieutical (Socrates, making ideas having birth in students) – still there?
Heuristics (the choices where to look, the direction of discovery) – how are these changing? For good, for bad? What to do about it?
Infrastructure – unevenly distributed

What is meant by solid knowledge? “Producing something that will be useful in 20 years”; something that has durability and is not based on short-term profit and/or exclusivity.
Questions of heuristics and infrastructure: How do I choose programming language – and why do I choose it? Why are certain languages neglected and others taken up?

Lindsay Brown: How does one find categories of knowledge to illustrate and generate methodology?

- Compiling other artists’ work as examples to be inspired by…
- …then incorporating this inspiration into actual experiments
- Thenextlayer.org as a means for this categorization;

Heterogeneous types of data (images, film, text etc.)
Enabling participation with multiple users
Ideal for re-edits and amendments