Open Source Architecture

Talk – Cameron Sinclair. Open Source Architecture to house the world

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Interesting comments: Consider the Open Source Community – don’t believe in utopia as all problems are local so all solutions are local. Advocate, Integrate, Implement

issues of governance but need 10 million ideas and 10 million solutions

what is it – it is adaptable, has potential for evolution, developed by everyone, useful to everyone. How to do it – it needs to participatory, utilised – open source ideal = global real time multi lingual workspace. Apply standards – proven ideas that are accessible. To be a conduit – to do so without having anybody profit at the expense of someone else.

open source software

• The program must be freely distributed.
• Source code must be included.
• Anyone must be allowed to modify the source code.
• Modified versions can be redistributed.
• The license must not require the exclusion of other software or interfere with the operation of other software.

Terms to consider: Free Software Movement, Open Source Software, GNU Project, Jargon File, Hacker, Phreaking, Internet, B>Open Source Initiative, Linux Kernel

Image of the Internet

The Opte Project

Early Project Idea – collaboration

Take away Lumsden – the take away generation. The aesthetics of the take away

Yeu-Lai Mo’s artwork presents an acute observation of growing up as a British Chinese and working in her parents’ Chinese takeaway in her adolescent years. Incorporating a large-scale, iconic photo-poster, food sculptures and a sound piece, she makes autobiographical and humorous references to issues within the Chinese community and takeaway culture.

Ten Thousand Li touring show

collective behaviour half a billion years old

The evidence shows that collective behaviour is all around us and it has been around for thousands of years. It seems that the worlds existence depends on us working as a collective.

“Collective behaviour is all around us and it’s also within us, the function of cells within in the body is a form of collective behaviour.” October 2008 by Ewen Callaway

We cannot under estimate the power of the collective and we should find our place within it – evolution depends on it.

Dr. Alexandra M. Kokoli

‘If words were enough …’: The difficult partnership between writing and creative practice

Text for discussion
Susan Hiller, ‘Henry Moore: “Truth” and “Truth to Material”, in The Provisional Texture of Reality: Selected Talks and Texts, 1977-2007, ed. A. M. Kokoli (Zurich: JRP|Ringier, forthcoming 2008), pp. 61-70, ‘Women, Language, Truth’, ibid., pp. 115-117

Susan Hiller – described as second generation conceptualist. Exploration into the unconscious of culture, professionally ‘what are artists?’

Ann Douglas – Practice Led Research

Practice Led Research – research for the arts, freedom to be opened ended, framed questions and proposed methodologies. Mono-graphics – following the character of a project. Research studentships attached to the project. Policy Landscape.

Paradigm – rural metropolitan policy/framework

Collaboration Project – experiment control

The experiment control was decided today – this would be the control for both the animal and human groups.

Control parameters – the constant

• Encourager
• Harmonizer
• Compromiser
• Gatekeeper/expediter
• Standard Setter
• Group observer
• Follower

social roles in groups

It is said that when in a group each member plays a particular role. A group is defined as having at least 3 and no more that 15 members. Less than 3 is a dyad, 3 members form coalitions and some kind of organisation exists. More than 15 inhibits communication between members. Interaction and communicatation has to be free and open, develop norms and roles will be taken on – a common goal or purpose brings a group together.

Stanford prison experiment

Stanford Prison Experiment

Within the illusion of life,
Death is the only reality,
but
is Reality the only death?
Within the reality of imprisonment,
Illusion is the only freedom,
but
is Freedom the only illusion?