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Short Description
The doctoral programme of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki will organize a symposium about openness in November 5.-6., 2009.
OPEN 2009 - Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium is an event for all interested parties who want to understand the ongoing shift in post-industrial societies of moving from exclusive division of labour towards modes of organisation that stresses sharing and collaboration. The role and meaning of information is changing from a fixed, well-guarded asset, to a continuously changing openly shared process. Openness is affecting the relational dynamics between different actors. New ideals, organizational forms and practices emerge. They interfere with older traditions and create a space of conflict.
What does this mean for ...
... organizations?
... consumers?
... citizens?
... research?
... business?
... design?
... culture?
... art?
... society?
... environment?
... you/me/us/everone else?
This symposium aims to explore acting in this space, keeping theoretical and practical knowledge together.
The Call for Papers is open during autumn 2009. For more information, visit http://mlabsymp.uiah.fi/
Updates regarding the event will also be posted to Aalto Openness Interest Group on Facebook. We encourage all interested people and participants to join the group.
The wiki-page about this event on Tutkimusparvi's wiki is the constantly changing up-to-date master document about the event. To find out about recent changes see the revision history. To get in touch with the organizing team send email to opensymposium at taik dot fi.
Call for Papers (draft)
Published at mlabsymp.uiah.fi
Call for Papers
OPEN 2009 - Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium
Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki
November 5.–6., 2009
Helsinki, Finland
OPEN 2009 - Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium focuses on the role of openness in a post-industrial society. The central argument goes as follows: Coupled with the continuous development of an open network infrastructure, new ways of organising, communicating and collaborating are rapidly changing the lives of people globally. The efficiency and resilience of these practices is bringing them from the periphery of the society towards its centre. Thus far, software development and media are areas where new organizational forms have been able to out-compete more traditional forms. Examples stemming from Linux software development and the Wikipedia community have widely been used to describe the trend. They are based on open knowledge and individual empowerment, representing an alternative for the traditional hierarchical power relation. We believe that these phenomena will continue to expand increasingly into other domains in the society.
The Obama campaign and the uprising in Iran indicate that the new strategies can be effective in the struggle for political power. Openness and empowerment are increasingly being considered as important components of strategical thinking in governments and public institutions around the world. Governments in United States, UK and Australia have been active in opening up public data. In Finland, a catalog for open public data, and a competition for building on that data, have been launched recently. The Public Broadcasting Company (YLE) has committed itself to an enabler strategy, which centers on open access and collaborative (re)use of media. Overall, digitalisation and declining costs for data storage and transmission have enabled near unlimited sharing of cultural products. Open collaborations have produced cultural artefacts, ranging from movies and animations to music; furthermore some artists have successfully embraced openness in the form of allowing remixes or distributing their products. Recent cases like the Finnish Carrot Mob and Electric Cars - Now! movement suggest that new organisational strategies will have increasing importance even for the production of consumer goods and services.
However, the shift is not without its contradictions. We can see rifts appearing between the old and new ways. We have already witnessed collisions of new ideals and traditional value systems. For many, the Pirate Bay trial symbolised the fight between old ideals of leadership and control and a more open and networked society, while some question the ethical grounds of sharing copyrighted products. Contradictions have created value-charged discussions. Many people who are actively engaged in openness are not always able or willing to articulate their experiences. For some, openness has become an ideology or a marketing term comparable to "web 2.0". These approaches often foster biased dialogue: The people who are most knowledgeable on openness do not want to speak out critically about it. Did the pirates sell out? In addition, there is an activity divide appearing. The same tools that connect people to each other, and to information, passify and disconnect others. Openness of information can also assist actions that have negative effects for individuals such as cyber-bullying or identity thefts. Any practical attempt to create systems supporting openness has to address the contradictory nature of openness and to position itself in regard to the legacy. What is needed is a critical and constructive discussion on how openness can be supported.
A lot of research has been conducted around the theme of openness on an societal level. It has been researched by several disciplines under concepts such as peer production, open access, corporate transparency, creative commons and so forth. Much of it has approached the theme from legal, political, economical or sociological standpoints. What has mainly been missing, however, is the close scrutiny of openness on the practical level. We think that the way forward is to bring the discussion closer to people and their every-day experiences. How does openness touch our lives?
The symposium calls for contributions on the possibilities and challenges of a more open society. We invite practical, but critical accounts on the theme. The symposium is intended as an open platform for discussion on the ideas brought forward through this call for papers. Therefore, more than academic vigour, we favour insightful contributions based on experience. Through this event, we hope to continue a critical discourse about the meaning of openness in tomorrow's society.
Tracks
1. Life in the Open – Experiences and Practices
This track approaches the theme of openness on the level of individuals and communities. How is openness affecting human capacity to act in the world? The Internet is an unprecedented source for information and an efficient tool for making arrangements. Emotional support, companionship and providing a sense of belonging are all non-material social resources that can be shared online. Openness has been said to increase serendipity - the likelihood of people accidentally discovering something fortunate. On the other hand, the panopticon has been used as a dystopian metaphor for explaining how the threat of being monitored represses individuals. Instead of the digital divide, the ability to be a part of collaborative processes - the activity divide - is becoming a source of inequality. This track strives for finding new conceptualizations of experiences and practices of life in the open. Are there open practices shaping interaction in communities? What conflicts arise when taking into use open ways of interacting? What positive or negative experiences do you have of openness? What motivates individuals into open behaviour?
The participants of this track are asked to submit practical accounts such as:
- experiences from open activities
- ethnographic studies
- practitioners accounts
- descriptions of utopias/dystopias
- demos and art projects
2. Making Openness
This track explores the tools, methods, strategies and practices of creating systems which support open flow of information. Opening the flow of information between humans requires a radically new perspective on the way activities and communication are organised, whether in virtual or real-life settings. We are going to need a new kind of understanding of the design and management of open systems and the organising of open activity. How can the experience and interactions in an open ecosystem be shaped? What insufficiencies can we recognize in current methods? Is the role of a professional changing in an open environment? How is it possible to organise grass-root activities which depend on open participation? How can organisations and businesses adapt to openness? How do you introduce openness on a strategical level, or create the basis for open innovation?
The participants of this track are asked to submit practical accounts such as:
- case studies
- methods
- process descriptions
- best practices
- demos and art projects
Stay informed
More information and technical submission details can be found in August 2009 on our website at http://mlabsymp.uiah.fi/. Updates regarding the event will be posted to Aalto Openness Interest Group on Facebook. We encourage all interested people and participants to join the group. The wiki-page about this event on Tutkimusparvi's wiki is the constantly changing up to date master document about the event. To find out about recent changes see the revision history. To get in touch with the organizing team send email to opensymposium at taik dot fi.
Submissions
To support rich discussion, we are accepting two kinds of contributions for the symposium: traditional presentations and videos.
1. Short papers
Short papers that will be presented by the author(s) and discussed at the event. The short papers should be provided in English using the ACM format. Upper limit 2000 words.
2. Synopses for videos
Short descriptions of original audiovisual productions of 5-10 min length (films, documentaries, animations, presentations etc.) to be presented and discussed at the event. The productions have to be by the author(s) or otherwise licensed for public presentation. Limit 500 words.
Please submit your short papers or synopses to the address opensymposium at taik dot fi. All accepted contributions will be published or linked to on the symposium web site.
Eligibility
The symposium is aimed for researchers, but invites insightful contributions from practitioners, designers, business professionals or activists, among others.
Important Dates
Submission deadline for synopses: September 15th
Submission deadline for short paper: September 30th
Video production deadline: October 15th
Symposium date: November 5.-6., 2009
Symposium language
The symposium language is English.
Brainstorming section
- Symposium site*
Blog address for the symposium is http://mlabsymp.uiah.fi/2009/
- information architecture for symposium site - what information is needed?
Juha: f.ex. CEB has the following structure
1. Home
(2. Call for Papers)
2. Themes/tracks
3. Speakers
4. Programme
5. Extra Programme
6. Important Dates
7. Venue
8. General Information
9. Registration
10. Enablers
11. Scientific Advisory Board
12. Contact
Examples
- Manuscript submission process*
Format and Submission
The short papers should be provided in English using the ACM format with a maximum of four (?) pages.
Video synopses format and max length (words)? Should be in English?
Recommended final video production format and length (minutes)? Can be in English or with English subtitles?
If blind review is used:
Please note that the submissions will undergo a blind review process, which means that the authors of the short papers and video synopses should remain anonymous during the review process. Therefore, remove all names of authors, email-addresses and affiliations, as well as references to works/systems or other information that may reveal your identity from the short papers and video synopses. Use for example "xxxxx" as a placeholder for the anonymized information. The final accepted submissions should include all the contact information.
Both the short papers and the video synopses should be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF) (?) through the conference submission and reviewing system (add a link to the system).
System to be decided:
- Bench>Press
- Open Conference System, used in the previous symposium
- Submission of the final video productions?
In case you have any questions regarding the short papers and video synopses, please email (add contact person email).
Review Process
To be decided:
Final Publication
Accepted works will be included in the final publication of the symposium?
- Event*
It has been suggested that the event would put more effort to improving the chosen presentations than is usually the case. Tutkimusparvi's open seminar format (video presentations before the event + discussion in the event) could work and Kommentoi Tätä could help. This way the event itself could be part of some peoples research (Juha, Petri, Sanna?).
Recent discussions pushed the event towards a platform in which participants would present only tentative cases and ideas which then can be further analysed after the event. In this way, there would not be too much pressure on formalising presentations and the symposium could become a place for common discussion and reflection (as its format of a symposium would suggest).
- Communications*
Places/channels to inform:
- Aalto Openness Interest Group in Facebook
