honorary resident

יום ב’ בריף #2 : להסתדר בשלישיות

דדליין ומעבר לשלב הבא: יום ב’ 18:00

את המשך העבודה משלב זה נעשה בקבוצות. אתם לא מחוייבים לקבוצה זו או אחרת, אבל אתם מתבקשים לבחור את שותפיכם גם מתוך התחשבות בדרך בה רשתות המידע שבנו סביב הקודים שלהם יהיו מעניינות לפתח בהקשר למידע שאספתם אתם סביב הקודים שקיבלתם. בשלב הבא נעמיק את המחקר סביב רשתות המידע שבחרתם כך שזכרו שבשלב זה אתם בוחרים לא רק שותפים לעבודה, אלא גם פיסות מידע חדשות להתעסק בהן.

 
Projects: youarenothere, The Upgrade!, ShiftSpace
People: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Research: Middle East, Open Culture
Tags: honorary resident, in Hebrew

English notice: This post is a part of the “Israeli Sphere: Connection Theory” a workshop I lead in Bezalel Art and Design School in Jerusalem, Israel. More about it in English here

תיאור הסדנה

1948, מפלס הכנרת, בובליל, שמע ישראל… מה הקשר?
במהלך סדנת עיצוב-חוקר נמקם פיסות מידע אובדות בתוך רשת ה”מרחב הישראלי” במטרה לגלות איפה זה בכלל המרחב הישראלי הזה? כיצד מעצבים בתוכו? לתוכו? מתוכו? סטודנטים יעבדו בקבוצות קטנות וינהלו מחקר מרושת בעקבות הקשרים תרבותיים, לוגיים וחזותיים. מתודולוגיית העבודה תחולק לשלושה שלבים: תוכן, מבנה ותצוגה בהשראה מגישות חדשות לתיוג, חיווט והגשה של מידע ברשת. על אף ההשראה והפרקטיקה המרושתת, תוצרי הסדנה אינם מוגבלים למדיום זה או אחר והסדנה פתוחה לסטודנטים מדיסיפלינות שונות כל עוד הם מוכנים לעבוד קשה, לישון מעט ולהתנסות בצורת עבודה חדשה ומאתגרת.

 
Projects: youarenothere, The Upgrade!, ShiftSpace
People: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Research: Middle East, Open Culture
Tags: honorary resident, workshop, israel, design, in Hebrew

Radars & Fences III

Radars and Fences progam, with Laila & me

Radars and Fences progam, with Laila & me

 

We have just uploaded the video documentation for one of the most interesting Upgrade events we had in the past year with Biella Coleman and Zach Lieberman discussing the tensions within the Free Software / Open Source world(s?) on the meaning of “free”. It explores the tensions between ethics and pragmatics, between “to free” and “to open”, between means and ends. If you’re interested in these issues I really recommend you check it out:

 

Please RT! (click the image)

 

NewsShift turns the news page into a node in a networked collaborative journalistic effort, it needs your help

NewsShift is the title of the grant application coming from some of us at the ShiftSpace team in collaboration with LittleSis.org. NewsShift basically turns a news page into a node in a networked collaborative journalistic effort. It has made it through the first round of proposals and is constantly trending as one of the highest rated applications in the 2nd round in the Knight News Challenge site.

 

Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, educator and media activist from Tel Aviv based in New York. This blog attempts to serve as a platform for discussion about a variety of topics from new media to politics, from open source to design.

 
Projects: ShiftSpace, The Upgrade!, youarenothere
People: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Research: Middle East, Open Culture
Tags: honorary resident

We did it!

It took 5 days, no pre-coordination, we didn’t know each other in advance, we don’t necessarily agree on a lot of things, but we wrote a book together – more than 30,000 words written, edited, redited. On Monday it will be sent to the printer and that’s it. Kind of…Well the book is open ended, the first release will be printed next week but anyone can go and add to the book or edit the current version.

The book (PDF & ePub versions to follow soon) turned out way way way more successful than I expected, but maybe it’s only because I didn’t get enough sleep. We covered a lot of ground, many of our chapters are skeptical others are very hopeful. Some of the collaborations mentioned in the book refer to examples as new as last week (Haiti), some are very personal, some are just hilarious.

 
Projects: youarenothere, The Upgrade!, ShiftSpace, Collaborative Futures
People: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Research: Middle East, Open Culture
Tags: honorary resident, transmediale, done, disclaimer, collaborative futures, collaboration, book sprint, in English

4 days of intense collaboration have passed. 1 more day left to go. I’m tired.

Networking with new collaborators


Marta and I comparing quotes and cats - pic by Mandiberg / Flickr

 
Projects: youarenothere, The Upgrade!, ShiftSpace, Collaborative Futures
People: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Research: Middle East, Open Culture
Tags: honorary resident, transmediale, quotes, collaborative futures, collaboration, cats, bullshit, book sprint, in English

It has been another intense day of recursive collaboration at the Collaborative Futures book sprint here in Berlin. Currently at around 23,000 words. Not bad for just 1, 2, 3 days…

 
Projects: ShiftSpace, Collaborative Futures, youarenothere, The Upgrade!
People: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Research: Middle East, Open Culture
Tags: schizophrenia, scale, collaborative futures, collaboration, book sprint, attribution, in English, honorary resident
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