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Dear inspiring all,

The idea of Taz, autonomous homes, meeting in privates homes, theatre in
apartments in the former Soviet Union, secret schools to provide Greek
education in the interior of Crete during occupation, and illegal Rave
parties with their secret codes leading to Thatcherian law forbiding
repetitive music (sic) for example, were initiatives, which all have
provided new ways of developing new ideas, away from the mainstream, and
have been proved necessary for surviving.

How would technology today offers new safe sanctuaries ? During the occupy
wall streets movement, activists were fobidden to act, so part of the
'revolt' went
online or in augmented reality
https://docubase.mit.edu/project/ar-occupy-wall-street/

I take the opportunity to mention the release of a music compilation, where
the benefits
goes to activists to buy VPN
https://syrphe.bandcamp.com/album/civil-disobedience-part-3-4

Luca

Le ven. 26 f?vr. 2021 ? 11:00, <yasmin_discussions-request@ntlab.gr> a
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:23:01 +0000
> From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
> To: roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>
> Cc: "xDxD.vs.xDxD" <xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com>, Annick Cell Bureaud
> <abureaud@gmail.com>, yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr,
> yasmin_announcements@ntlab.gr, nake <nake@uni-bremen.de>
> Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] [Yasmin_announcements] yasmin
> phoenicians and pirates: overcoming touch deprivation pharmakon and
> provokaon
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> Meetings in private homes was also important in the 17th century. See the
> story of the Lunar Men in England, some of whom were barred from
> Universities because of religious beliefs but many of whom made important
> advances.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Lunar-Men-Friends-Curiosity-Changed/dp/0374528888
>
> Ernest
>
> ______________________
> http://ernestedmonds.com
>
> > On 24 Feb 2021, at 3:42 pm, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > ?klaus frieder et yasmin pirates and phoenicians
> >
> > the discussion about 'little research labs' reminds me of the
> discussions thirty
> > years by ago by Hakim Bey
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
> > advocating Temporary Autonomous Zones
> >
> > but also three years ago we started an artscience Air B and B in our
> > family house in paris, annick bureaud has now been running a series
> > of art science residencies there- where there MUST be a mixture of guests
> > from different disciplines staying at the air b and b at teh same time
> >
> > private homes are where 19th century salons gathered proust and picasso
> > and carl jung -universities are great-lots of heat and internet- but the
> kind
> > of discussions that can go on in TAZ air b and b culture are really i
> think
> > more generative of desirable outputs
> >
> > roger malina
> >
> >
> > Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 2:18 AM xDxD.vs.xDxD <xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Frieder
> >>>
> >>> I am afraid, that takes away a lot from the situation of the little
> research center.
> >>
> >> it's really a choice. And it has its pros and cons. In a small
> organisation you have more freedom and agility, and you don't necessarily
> have to adhere to the rankings and mad quantities (for example of students
> and publications each year). You have a say in what you choose to do.
> >> On the other hand there's more risk involved, and you have to be really
> active: there's no big organization that will back you up, or to provide
> the prestige or reputation. You will always be the odd one, or the one who
> really has to fight to get the point across.
> >> But there's space for everyone. If the Internet taught us anything is
> that there is space both for Amazon and for niche boutiques. That is if
> boutiques manage to generate narratives and imaginaries that allow people
> to find them.
> >>
> >> Me and my wife abandoned universities like 6 years ago, and opened this
> "little research center".
> >> Even if we're really small (there's 15 of us, plus several people who
> go back and forth) we partner with other larger universities and
> organizations, we work with the EU Commissions and governments etc: we do
> all the things which other research centers do. But being smaller, we can
> discuss and choose.
> >>
> >> We publish. We have institutional and strategic communication.
> >> We have students, internships, masters. Many times, we hire (or work
> with) the people we taught something to.
> >>
> >> Soon, we will have an hotel, where we will live (some permanently, some
> temporarily), research, experiment, teach, learn, eat, invite, leave from,
> arrive at, etc
> >>
> >> In a way, we're more similar to what Donna Haraway would call a new
> type of kinship. Which is a nice thing to explore as a research center.
> >>
> >> And we have a model for it (we're completing the documentation right
> now (for now there's this:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YUwoq5yLXcHlC5YBelflJQhUZ0cvsU49/view?usp=sharing
> ), so that it's also replicable, evolvable etc
> >>
> >> This is also a nice thing to explore on Yasmin: how to organize
> ourselves. Hope you explore with us!
> >>
> >> kind wishes
> >> Salvatore
> >>
> >> (note: what address should we use in the Yasmin-phoenix transition? I
> saw that it is currently defaulting to forwarding to both addresses, as
> well to personal addresses. I will do this last one like this, and maybe
> from the next one I will only use the discussions address?)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Art is Open Source - http://www.artisopensource.net
> >> Human Ecosystems Relazioni - https://www.he-r.it/
> >> Ubiquitous Commons - http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:46:06 -0600
> From: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@ntlab.gr>
> To: "xDxD.vs.xDxD" <xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com>, Annick Cell Bureaud
> <abureaud@gmail.com>
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> overcoming touch deprivation pharmakon and provokaon
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> klaus frieder et yasmin pirates and phoenicians
>
> the discussion about 'little research labs' reminds me of the discussions
> thirty
> years by ago by Hakim Bey
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
> advocating Temporary Autonomous Zones
>
> but also three years ago we started an artscience Air B and B in our
> family house in paris, annick bureaud has now been running a series
> of art science residencies there- where there MUST be a mixture of guests
> from different disciplines staying at the air b and b at teh same time
>
> private homes are where 19th century salons gathered proust and picasso
> and carl jung -universities are great-lots of heat and internet- but the
> kind
> of discussions that can go on in TAZ air b and b culture are really i think
> more generative of desirable outputs
>
> roger malina
>
>
> Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 2:18 AM xDxD.vs.xDxD <xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Frieder
> >>
> >> I am afraid, that takes away a lot from the situation of the little
> research center.
> >
> > it's really a choice. And it has its pros and cons. In a small
> organisation you have more freedom and agility, and you don't necessarily
> have to adhere to the rankings and mad quantities (for example of students
> and publications each year). You have a say in what you choose to do.
> > On the other hand there's more risk involved, and you have to be really
> active: there's no big organization that will back you up, or to provide
> the prestige or reputation. You will always be the odd one, or the one who
> really has to fight to get the point across.
> > But there's space for everyone. If the Internet taught us anything is
> that there is space both for Amazon and for niche boutiques. That is if
> boutiques manage to generate narratives and imaginaries that allow people
> to find them.
> >
> > Me and my wife abandoned universities like 6 years ago, and opened this
> "little research center".
> > Even if we're really small (there's 15 of us, plus several people who go
> back and forth) we partner with other larger universities and
> organizations, we work with the EU Commissions and governments etc: we do
> all the things which other research centers do. But being smaller, we can
> discuss and choose.
> >
> > We publish. We have institutional and strategic communication.
> > We have students, internships, masters. Many times, we hire (or work
> with) the people we taught something to.
> >
> > Soon, we will have an hotel, where we will live (some permanently, some
> temporarily), research, experiment, teach, learn, eat, invite, leave from,
> arrive at, etc
> >
> > In a way, we're more similar to what Donna Haraway would call a new type
> of kinship. Which is a nice thing to explore as a research center.
> >
> > And we have a model for it (we're completing the documentation right now
> (for now there's this:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YUwoq5yLXcHlC5YBelflJQhUZ0cvsU49/view?usp=sharing
> ), so that it's also replicable, evolvable etc
> >
> > This is also a nice thing to explore on Yasmin: how to organize
> ourselves. Hope you explore with us!
> >
> > kind wishes
> > Salvatore
> >
> > (note: what address should we use in the Yasmin-phoenix transition? I
> saw that it is currently defaulting to forwarding to both addresses, as
> well to personal addresses. I will do this last one like this, and maybe
> from the next one I will only use the discussions address?)
> >
> > --
> > Art is Open Source - http://www.artisopensource.net
> > Human Ecosystems Relazioni - https://www.he-r.it/
> > Ubiquitous Commons - http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org
>
>
>
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yasminer colleagues but in particular frieder slavatore klaus ernest

i would like to pick up the discussion on how the world of research centers
may change after the pandemic- i append salvatore iaconesi's article
with oriana persico and daniele bucci
on creating a research center in todays society

ernest emphasised the role of peoples homes as being overlooked in the
history of ideas, and it
seems the pandemic has re injected their importance- its a fact in
complex systems that the larger
it is ( eg universities) the less reactive/adaptive it can be. The
pandemic has perhaps demonstrated
this as more of us work in our home studios and home offices rather
than in the university facilites

yes many catastrophes in human history, pandemics etc, have sometimes
led to a variety of desirable
consequences, eg the Re-Naissance. So maybe yasminers can take the
lead in revitalising yasmin
as part of a network of independent non university research labs ?

roger malina
here is salvatore and colleagues article

salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico (1, 2, 3), Daniele Bucci (4)

salvatore.iaconesi@he-r.it, oriana.persico@he-r.it

Creating a research center in today's society

Data, AI, territories, communities, knowledge and rituals for a New Living

Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico (1, 2, 3), Daniele Bucci (4)

salvatore.iaconesi@he-r.it, oriana.persico@he-r.it

Affiliations:

Founders of the ?HER: She Loves Data? research center

Founders of AOS ? Art is Open Source

Visiting professors Aalborg University, Department of Architecture,
Design and Media Technology

Designer, researcher and facilitator


Abstract english:

What is a research center? How does its role change in the age of data
and computation? The article describes the theoretical and conceptual
foundations that in 2020 led to the redesign of the research center
HER - Human Ecosystems Relations, founded in 2013 by the artist duo
Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, to create a new type of
organization capable of positioning research at the center of society,
using art as a strategy and data to create sensitivities toward the
complex phenomena of our globalized and hyper-connected world - from
climate change, to migration to poverty. HER: she Loves Data, the new
organization whose model is described, assumes as its main mission the
creation of the Archive of Rituals of the New Living, embracing data
and computation as existential and cultural boundaries of contemporary
human beings and societies.


Keyword english:

Research, Knowledge, Education, Participation, Sociology of Science,
Anthropology of Science, Technology, Data, Computation, Artificial
Intelligence,


Introduction

Our society has radically changed during the last few years, and we
did as well. Our intimacy and the ways we spend time together have
changed. The ways in which we communicate and relate. The ways in
which we perceive the world, try to understand it and deal with it.
The ways in which we learn and interact, and in which we share our
knowledge and information.

We are now in a globalized (Beck, 1997) and hyperconnected (Shaviro,
2003) world.

The existences of human beings and of the rest of the environment and
its actors (animals, plants, microorganisms, the rest of the
biosphere, but also actors with legal personality and computational
actors) are increasingly in close and intricate relationships with
each other, organized into interconnected processes, which can be
considered separately only at the cost of not being able to deal with
the complexity that is required for their governance (Di Felice,
2019).

Our existences and our lives depend on ? and are increasingly mediated
by ? data and computation: our Onlives (Floridi, 2014b) and are
increasingly connected to the infosphere in which we are immersed (
Floridi, 2014a).

The phenomena we experience can take place anywhere and anytime in the
world: they roam the entire planet and beyond (eg.: the images and
data coming from our human devices on other planets, or in space). To
be able to experience these phenomena and to deal with them, means
interacting with enormous quantities and qualities of data and
computation.

But the current data and computing industries are extractive
industries. Like all extractive phenomena of our present and past,
they have serious implications for the environment, society, rights,
democracies, freedoms, and the ways in which technologies can be used
to exert power over us, our bodies and our psyche. (Iaconesi, 2017)

If, on the one hand, we find ourselves forced to continuous protective
actions (privacy, censorship, algorithmic biases), on the other hand
we need enormous quantities and qualities of data and computation in
order to exist on the planet. (Iaconesi, Persico, 2019a)

This is a tragic condition our times, whose two aspects pull in
dramatically different directions, disorienting us. Let?s just think
about, in the current pandemics, about data, which is simultaneously
used to violate us and to save us, in a classical Double Bind
constraint. There seems to be no exclusively technical solutions to
this tragic condition, and the ways of dealing with it are positioned
in the nexus of Science, Technology, Art, Design, Psychology,
Philosophy, Society. (Iaconesi, Persico, 2016b)

A different type of need emerges: to reposition ourselves in a novel
cosmology, along an epistemological evolution, to achieve new
possibile experiences and performances in our ecologies. The
opportunity for these transformations come from new possible alliances
with computational agents: not extractive anymore, but generative,
with us.

These new alliances must be designed: ecologically, in society and in
the environment we inhabit.

To do this, we have started to research a possible evolution of what
we now would call ?research center?, to study and reinvent the rituals
which we take part in to live on our planet.

This article tells the story of this process, to try to invent such a
new form of research center: HER: She Loves Data.


Towards a Theory of Research Centers in Contemporary Society

In the Treccani encyclopedia a ?research center? is defined as that
?organism or entity that promotes research and coordinates studies
about specific topics?. In Wikipedia ?a research institute (or
research center) is an organization created on purpose to operate and
to promote research in one or more fields of science?.

These definitions presume that the scientific ?professions? and
?methods? are concrete entities that are already well present and
positioned in our society. But ?research center? is a recent concept
in human history, although various places of a more remote human past
already had these characteristics.

Bayt al-?ikmah (??? ???????), for example, the House of Wisdom, also
known as Baghdad Great Library ? an important intellectual center in
the city during the Abbasid caliphate in the golden islamic age in the
VIII century ?, closely resembles a research center: it hosted and
translated the most advanced research of those times; it produced
original contributions through its residents in medicine, surgery,
alchemy, physics, mathematics, astrology, paper production,
philosophy, literature; and it hosted large research infrastructures,
like the astronomical observatories.

To find more structured entities we have to proceed along the years,
arriving at the scientific revolution after the Renaissance and, then,
throughout the XVIII century with Illuminism: London?s Royal Society
in 1660 and the Acad?mie Royale des Sciences in France, in 1666.



Romanticism, as a reaction to Illuminism, saw the rise of Schelling?s
Naturphilosophie; the study of cosmologies and cosmogonies; the new
science of biology; the investigation of conscious and unconscious
mental states, and of what was ?normal? and ?abnormal?; the study of
the secret forces of nature, such as electricity, magnetism,
galvanism. Goethe?s observation countered Newton?s works on optics.

Science mutated in this way according to opposing cycles of
transformation and evolution, also changing the ways in which human
beings formed relationships in scientific research, organizing it.

After Romanticism, the evolution of science and of its positioning in
society and in our psychology passed through the Industrial
Revolutions, World Wars, XX century?s Globalization and the Digital
Revolution in the beginning of the XXI century.

Each of these periods has its own characteristics which resonate in
their cultures, for example through literature?s and cinema?s monsters
and characters of the different times: Dracula and steam; Frankenstein
and the forces of electricity and of life; Charlie Chaplin, first with
industry and then with the Great World Wars. With Zombies a peculiar
transformation arrives: daily lives and ordinary human beings become
the monsters, in the shopping center, with consumerism and
Globalization. Information Society brings the monster of Artificial
Intelligences and computation in general.

Floridi?s (2014a) 4 revolutions resonate the same concept: the social
positions and geometries of sciences transform. The illuminist
character of the copernican revolution dismantles the anthropocentric
understanding of the universe. Romanticism?s reconnection with Nature
gives Darwin the opportunity to bring human beings and animals closer
together in the process of natural selection. Freud decrees the end of
the integrity of human being ? divided between conscious and
unconscious ? between the Industrial Revolutions and the Great World
Wars.

>From the great wars to the Digital Revolution, Turing shows how
intelligence is not only human.

Each of these revolutions bring new conceptual instruments which can
be used to understand ourselves and the world we live in, and we can
use them in science, philosophy, art, and in all the other disciplines
and their interconnections.


In this scenario, the observation of the current conditions of
humanity and of the planet ? hyperconnected, globalized and, thus,
fully pervaded by complex issues at all levels of society and of the
environment ? gives us a hint about what these new instruments and
concepts for these times are: data and computation.

Infact, the availability of enormous quantities and qualities of data
? and of the computation which needed to collect, process, represent
and interpret them ? is the necessary ? but not sufficient ? condition
to be able to know, to experience and to be able to confront with
complex issues such as climate change, health, poverty, education and
the other planetary issues which we face (for example with United
Nations? Sustainable Development Goals).

Thus, it is not entirely wrong to affirm that our survival on planet
earth is connected to data and computation, that

Non ? quindi sbagliato affermare che la nostra sopravvivenza sul
pianeta ? connessa a dati e computazione, which in fact are
transformed: they move from being technical matter, becoming an
existential one.

On top of that, data are characterized by tensions and paradoxes:

They are the protagonists of the largest extractive phenomenon on our
planet and, as such, they live in separation: they are extracted from
our existence, our bodies, our behaviours and from the environment,
and they are used in laboratories, industries, and in the governance
of their processes.

They come in enormous quantities, qualities and interconnections.
Counting them is not interesting anymore, as it brings small
differentiation. On the contrary, the possibility to discover forms
and recurring patterns in them and in their interconnections brings
enormous value, as it enables governance of complex phenomena. This is
the role of Artificial Intelligence.

They are presented as objective, indisputable truths. ?Data says
this.? As such, they are used to enact rigid, lineas, industrial
procedures that are not able to deal with the extreme diversities of
human beings, biology, environments, cultures and their relations.
Instead, it is true that data are highly ideological entities. To be
able to measure a phenomenon, we must first construct an ideology
about how the phenomenon can be measured, about what are the important
things to be measured, and how, through which variables, parameters,
expressions, and using which sensors and practices. The equation
according to which data is supposed to be a measure of a certain
phenomenon is in itself a complex phenomenon which does not have a
single, or simple, or linear answer. Ecosystems? complexity can be
dealt with through the coexistence of multiple perspectives, not
through consensus or through those mono-cultures that, for whatever
reason, is dominant or hegemonic at a certain time.

To be able to have the availability of many types of different data ?
about people, behaviours, processes, environment, biology, culture,
etx ? a tragic paradox takes form:

On the one hand, a protective modality is needed (for example through
privacy laws), to defend people?s rights and liberties, their health,
environment, information, education, and so on.

On the other hand, data must be freely accessible and usable in
enormous quantities and qualities, to be able to confront the complex
issues that put our existence at risk (the recent issues of the
COVID19 pandemic are striking proof of this).

This is a tragic condition: it has no solution. At least none in the
sense of a univocal, technical one. This is a type of problem that
cannot be addressed in an exclusively engineering sense. This type of
problem is of an existential and cultural type, and to face it it is
necessary to have the possibility of dealing with systems that allow
paradox, incompleteness, indeterminacy, presence / absence,
relationship and all its consequences.

Therefore, an idea of Science in Society is needed that is capable of
adopting the approaches, methods and tools of Philosophy, Psychology,
Art and Culture among its strategies, not as a mere ornament. The
research centers that carry out this type of science should therefore
have a geometry and a very different structure from the current ones:
both internal and in the relationship with society and the
environment. is able to adopt the approaches, methods and tools of
Philosophy, Psychology, Art and Culture among its strategies, not as
mere ornament. The research centers that carry out this type of
science should therefore have a geometry and a very different
structure from the current ones: both internal and in the relationship
to society and the environment.

Sociologia della Scienza e Antropologia della Scienza

Engelbart (1968) stated:

?Though the primary research goal is to develop principles of analysis
and design so as to understand how to augment human capability,
choosing the researchers themselves as subjects yields as valuable
secondary benefit a system tailored to help develop complex
computer-based systems. This "bootstrap" group has the interesting
(recursive) assignment of developing tools and techniques to make it
more effective at carrying out its assignment. Its tangible product is
a developing augmentation system to provide increased capability for
developing and studying augmentation systems.?

This type of bootstrap process is very interesting, and one can
imagine making active protagonists not only researchers, but also
students, publics, organizations and institutions, so as to obtain an
inclusive and participatory that brings in from the very beginning the
collaboration of more actors in society or in the organization.

Disciplines such as Sociology and Anthropology of Science can help us
to design organisms whose life is the complex result of the lives of
so many different types of actors.

Sociology of Science studies the socio-cultural processes that are
constitutive of scientific systems, as well as its interactions with
other systems like schools, institutions, innovations, industry,
territories.

This influences:

the choices of the subjects of research;

the conceptual models of research, and the vision of the world which
is a direct result of scientific conceptualization, observation,
analysis and communication:

the internal and external objectives of research;

And the pragmatic domains of research, which describe what it means to
?research?, in terms of the socially recognized practices.

Anthropology of Science uses a different approach, which is expressed,
for example, in Bruno Latour?s ways of looking at it: observing
science ?in action? is very different from observing science?s ?black
boxes?, because we can attribute a role to it only when we are able to
explore its dynamic history, contents, evolutions and relations
(Latour, 1987).

Applying the methods of Anthropology and Ethnography to Science allows
to reconstruct the cultural, symbolic and psychological dynamics, as
well as the dynamics of the boundaries of collaboration and conflict,
by dedicating attention to those actors that play roles in these
dynamics and in their implications, together with ?information about
sources of funding, the career backgrounds of participants, the
citation patterns in the relevant literature, the nature and origins
of instrumentation and so on.? (Latour, Woolgar, 1986, 278)

The objective is to dive into the ecology of nature/society (Latour,
2015), to participate in science (Latour, 1990) according to varying
arrangements, which correspond to a diversity of epistemological
approaches.

If ?ecology [...] is not the irruption of nature in public space, but
the end of Nature as a concept which is capable of synthesizing our
relationship with the world, and of pacificating it? (Latour, 2015,
50?51), then all the actors of the whole nature/society, in their
incredible diversity ? between human, non human, legal, computational
? ? must be considered as potentially active and interactive actors
(and, thus, significative) in science, according to recurring patterns
and forms that we must learn to recognise: the new cosmologies of
science.

The case of ?HER: She Loves Data?

HER: She Loves Data (in the following: HER), is a small, private
research center which in its first version was founded in London in
2013, under the name of HE ? Human Ecosystems. The occasion for its
creation was provided by the possibility of exploiting the
intellectual property for a technological platform by the same name
that had been created in an EU project of the FP7 programme of the
European Commission. Human Ecosystem (both software and research
center) was born as a platform which was able to collect large
quantities of data from the social major social network in those times
(Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) so that they could be used in
territorial and community analysis and in citizen science projects.

These large scale data collection processes has a few peculiarities:

They formed commons, that is a resource that could be used in common
by researchers and communities only after having established
relationships and codes between the two about this usage; this was
part of the methodology, and it was applied through the software
platforms; (Iaconesi and Persico, 2016b)

They contributed to shaping the cultural processes that took place
among the members of the communities together with researchers,
technologists, artists, designers, educators, organizations and
institutions; these data were used in workshops, near future
design/speculative design participatory processes, and collaborative
processes of policy design;

The results of these processes assumes aesthetic and communicational
forms, such as works of art, data visualizations, interactive and
immersive interfaces, which composed the Realtime Museum of the City,
which was a place that was created and whose content was produced
through the practices of participation in the city/territory, by
representing the needs, desires, expectations and imaginaries of the
communities under the form of cultural artifacts;

The strategic and operative model of this type of operation lay its
foundation on the possibility to use data to capture the essence the
Relational Ecosystems (among people, organizations, institutions,
devices, services and the environment), and to use computation to
analyze and represent it, by describing interactions, exchanges,
communications, so that precise and inclusive interventions could not
only be designed, but imagined in the first place.

This methodology was called Digital Urban Acupuncture, DUA (Iaconesi
and Persico, 2016b).

DUA?s conceptualization requires the design of two concepts that
contribute to the idea of data and computation as pervasive entities
of nature/society that are in existential relationship with all
actors, human and non-human:

The Third Infoscape, which is composed by the myriads of
micro-histories that are generated by small agglomerations of data,
information, images, articles and reactions, taken into account in the
irreducible complexity and richness of interactions; Third Infoscale
cannot be describes in terms of the simple geometries, but only
according to the myriads of the sub-narratives which emerge from all
these data, information and interactions; (Iaconesi, 2017)

Ubiquitous Commons, which is a cultural, technological, social and
legal protocol according to which the identities of the actors of
ecosystems can have different modalities ? individual, anonymous,
collective, temporary, transitive and remixes of these ?; in the
ecosystems that are composed by the relations and interactions among
human and non human actors (such as buildings, companies, territories,
forests?), it becomes, thus, possible for these types of identities to
generate data (eg: the data which a condo building can produce, a
territory, a forest, an event?), to self-represent themselves, as in
an autobiography; in a similar way it is possible to attribute access
to these data to different identities (eg: to the researchers of a
certain research project, or to an organization). (Iaconesi and
Persico, 2015)

In 2016, HE changed to HER ? Human Ecosystems Relazioni ? as it moved
to Italy, taking its headquarters in Rome in the San Lorenzo, Pigneto
and Torpignattara neighbourhoods, both because of their multicultural
life and because of the concentration of designers, artists and of the
largest part of the city?s undergrounds and subcultures.

This positioning in the city profoundly contributed to the idea of a
research center that does not live in the separation of the
laboratory, but, rather, that promotes a concept of science that is in
the dynamic center of society, and fully participates in it. This is
demonstrated by a series of permanent projects of the center:

HER: She Loves San Lorenzo, a festival of arts, data and artificial
intelligence in which the entire neighbourhood transforms into an art
exhibition whose artworks are created through data and AI, and where
the mechants, the baristas, and the other inhabitants of the
neighbourhood transform themselves into the curators and narrators of
the artworks in the exhibit, thus creating a diffused experience in
applied didactics which is highly effective;

The Scuola di Quartiere di Arte, Dati e IA (Neighborhood School for
Arts, Data and AI); it emerged right after the first edition of the
festival and it uses the model of the carnival, in which the school
operates all year round to prepare the festival?s next edition; a
series of initiatives in which the inhabitants of the neighbourhood
transform themselves in the artists who are capable of creating the
works of art that are made using their own data, used not in
extractive mode, but in an autobiographical and self-representational
ways, which would be included in the exhibit; (Iaconesi, 2018a e
2018b)

IAQOS, Intelligenza Artificiale Open Source di Quartiere (Open Source
Neighbourhood Artificial Intelligence), a project in which the
Torpignattara neighbourhood saw the emergence of a new technological
infrastructure (AI, just like water, electricity and public transport
before it), under the form of a new, peculiar inhabitant of the
neighbourhood, young IAQOS; technology is not only a technical issue
anymore, and becomes an actor with which to relate, to negotiate
reality, to discuss and debate the world that each actor brings to the
community. (Iaconesi e Persico, 2019b)

At the beginning of 2020, the COVID19 pandemic contributed to the
perception of the urgency of unveiling new forms of ?Science in
Nature/Society? that are able to engage human and non human actors,
and to explicitly avoid extractive processes, moving to process
centered on the concept of ?caring? (Iaconesi and Persico. 2016a),
defined as the possibility to perceive oneself not as a center, but as
one of the actors/performers of a human and non human
ecosystem/network that relate and interact. Moving away from
extraction, and towards ecology. Thus, HER: She Loves Data was born,
with its focus of bringing together Science, Technology (and
especially Data and Computation), Art and Nature/Society, to uncover
the Rituals of the New Living (Rituali del Nuovo Abitare).

Methodology and Process

The elements that are characteristic of the research center also give
shape to its processes. These are:

The approach described in ?La Cura? (Iaconesi and Persico, 2016a),
which is a systemic-relational one; issues are never dealt with in a
way which is purely technical, but move along complex relational
networks, extending eventually to the whole of society; for example,
data and the research that uses them are never used solely in the
separation of the ?lab?, but are the object of multiple types of
relations, through different actors; art and design are a fundamental
part of this type of process.

A non-extractive approach, according to which processes are not
designed to extract (data, value, knowledge?), but to generate, and
are intended as autobiographical and self-representational expressions
of the human and non-human actors involved.

An approach which is not oriented to consensus, but, rather, to
coexistence. Processes are designed around the possibility of
compresence of conflicts, not on the idea of their final resolution
through forms of consensus.

A Commons oriented approach, according to Elinor Ostrom?s definition
(1990), in which the commons is not only a certain resource pool, but
also the high quality relational ecosystem that is linked to it,
together with the fact that the ecosystem has a code which is used to
govern it.

An human/non-human ecosystemic approach, according to which human
beings are not at the center of the ecosystem (as, for example, in
Human Centered Design), but, rather, part of complex relational
networks together with organizations, computational agents, other
actors in the biosphere, etc: Ecosystemic Design.

A Near Future / Speculative Design approach, in which design is a
participatory practice and it is dedicated to the creation of future
scenarios, not only by looking through the lens of what is technically
possible, but also through the ones of what is desirable, preferable,
imaginable, or even paradoxical or mysterious, to reveal the
inconsistencies and the violences of our presents, exploring together
with society, critically and constructively.


The design of the research center is centered around a progressive
process which, step by step, valorizes the relations that manifest
themselves. At the same time, it is an open process, so that many
actors can take its elements and create conflicts around them, to
unveil ways for coexistence.

The following sections describe the three phases of the design process.


Creation of an inner circle

The first phase takes place in a selected, curated community in which
the quality of relations, trust and mutual knowledge is outstanding.
It is tightly knit and interactions are frequent (once a week, with
assignments in-between). The objective is to design the initial
concept of the research center, its organizational and relational
dynamics, its themes, its aesthetics, the way in which it builds its
roots in a community; the outputs of this phase are listed below.


Senses

A set of multimedia narratives whose aim is to communicate the colors,
sensations, sounds and images of the research center in an immersive,
literary way.

?Stepping inside HER: She Loves Data, you find yourself immersed in a
small hydroponic forest. The life of the environment, and its relation
with humans generates data which we use to live better. HER: She Loves
Data generates food, well-being, health, communication and knowledge
to augment the capacity to inhabit both the analogue and digital
spheres, establishing relationships and connections between people,
communities, territories, organizations and institutions.

Amidst the deep green of this forest ? which is, simultaneously,
architecture, environment, source of food and herbs, tool and
educational space used to learn and research the Rituals of the New
Living, between nature, art, science, technology, data and computation
? you can see the reception, the spaces that are used to work, to live
experiences, have meetings, eat, rest, establishing bridges between
physical and digital dimensions.

Further in that direction, along the intrigue of the small forest, are
the living quarters, the kitchens, the spaces for physical and digital
conviviality, where the two dimensions coexist and integrate with the
life of the research attractor and of its inhabitants.

I wouldn?t be surprised to find out that there are some spaces that I
haven?t discovered yet.?


Structure

A set of diagrams is constantly kept updated to show the structure of
the research center.

Image 1 ? the structure, in July 2020


In July 2020 the structure diagram?s report said:


?HER: She Loves Data relates with Communities/Territories and with
Organisations/Companies/Institutions. These two parts are not
disjoint, and can work together.

HER: She Loves Data is composed by a variable number of thematic
Communities of Practice (CoP, Lave and Wenger, 1991), focused around
health, learning, food, communication, organizations, and all the
research themes for which there will be researchers and organizations
that are willing to host the theme. CoPs can work together: health can
work with education, art can work with food, communication can work
with audience development, ect, in all combinations that form along
the way.

CoPs can establish partnerships and have their clients, which compose
HER: She Loves Data?s relational ecosystem.


CoPs have the availability of a series of tools, methods and
infrastructures, with the basic first three elements will be:

UC ? Ubiquitous Commons (Iaconesi and Persico, 2015), a
legal/technological/social protocol which is used to manage variable
forms of digital identity (individual, anonymous, collective,
temporary, transitive and remixes) using distributed, accessible
technologies, and its associated technical infrastructure. Through UC
data will be managed giving up the extractive paradigm, and adopting
the new autobiographical, self-representational one.

NFD ? Near Future Design, the speculative design methodology, tools
and professional figures (designers, facilitators, researchers, etc),
which enables to work with communities, territories and ?tribes?
(online, for example); it is used to create participatory processes to
design near future scenarios which are able to trigger imagination,
communication, reflection and feedback, to the scenarios can be
transformed into products, services, objects in public space, schools,
offices, etc, going beyond what is ?technically possible? and arriving
at what is desirable, preferable, just.

KNOW ? Knowledge Ecosystems, which is composed by a technical and
interactive infrastructure which can be used to collaboratively govern
and manage shared, interconnected knowledge; it contains the Archive
of the Rituals of the New Living, in which the practices in which
people, communities, companies, organizations and institutions use
data and computation to confront with complex needs are stored,
classified, organized, connected, studied and generated as new
research; CoPs, through their activity, enrich the Archive (with new
concepts, research, prototypes, code, case studies, works of art?), so
that other CoPs can use them.

HER: She Loves Data?s infrastructure takes the name of Datapoiesis.

A specific CoP (called Core CoP) is dedicated to the maintenance and
evolution of the infrastructure.

Other CoPs which, over time, may have acquired specific importance in
the ecosystem, can evolve and become infrastructure.

HER: She Loves Data can be replicated, and each replica does not
necessarily have the same evolution history as the others. Just like
in nature, an evolutionary diversity exists, and an instance in Italy
could be different from one in Australia, each providing a diversity
of contributions to the Archive. This also means that in replicating
the research center in different contexts, one could choose one of the
many evolutionary paths/trees that have already been followed ? and,
thus, benefiting from the knowledge about their success in similar
contexts, for example ?, or a remix of different ones.?


Near Future Narratives

Each inner circle?s participant is called to compose a design fiction,
a short story of a future scenario which narratively shows some of the
design characteristics of the research center: its inner and outer
workings; its processes; the objects inside it; etc.

All of this constitutes a Future Ethnography, in which participants
are called to perform their vision, by writing their field notes from
the future.


Networked writing

A Google Drive add-on was created that allows using documents and
spreadsheets as networked writing tools, to obtain non linear
narratives. This type of tool makes it easier to compose ontologies
and other forms of relational graphs: one just selects the titles,
words, numbers and other elements of documents, also across different
documents, and states what type of relation lays between them. Graphs,
then, can be explored using an interactive data visualisation.

The first documents that were represented in this way have been the
Near Future Narratives, to highlight and interconnect recurring
narratives, make comparisons and to synthesize them, ways that are
rich and oriented towards complexity.


Similarities and complementarity

A study of the organizations that, for any reason, are similar or
complementary to the objective of the research center. For example,
they could be similar for one of the characteristics defined in the
previous sections, or for some other desirable quality: the use of
art and design to bring concepts and practices to society; the
attention to the ecological detail of proposed practices and rituals,
not only by an environmental point of view, but also from the
perspectives of social, informational, communicational and
psychological ecologies.

And complementary, meaning those organizations who are able to have an
impact on the daily lives of millions of people (like energy/utility
companies, schools, the great nodes of distribution and
communication). All these are large data concentrators and, thus, they
constantly have a need for innovation of the processes and
technologies which they use to deal with such enormous quantities of
data. This makes them a perfect match to try to bring even radical
innovation in data management and governance, for example by
addressing how these actors could better manage data while also being
able to respond to the needs and aspirations of individuals and
communities, and to become major bearers of impacts in the upcoming
confrontation with the complex issues of the planet, starting from the
SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) of the United Nations.

These similarities and complementarities have been looked for within
organizations of all kinds, sizes, across domains. When the final
output was produced, this knowledge base was opened for public review
and contribution.


Communication kits

Different types of actors have different communication needs,
languages and each of them represents different opportunities for
interaction. To communicate with these types of actors in society we
have started to develop what is becoming a distinctive trait in the
communication of the research center, the communication kits. These
are different and used to follow different approaches, narratives,
visual languages, according to the type of audience.


Controlled dissemination and feedback

A phase of controlled dissemination began in July 2020. While the work
of the inner circle continued, other actors received the outputs and
were invited to provide feedback, proposals and to participate. Among
them are researchers in various disciplines, entrepreneurs, policy
makers, designers, educators, academics, social innovators and other
profiles. It wasn?t still an open call, as it maintained some control
on the disclosure, and the process paid attention in disseminating
first of all to those who had already manifested interest in the
initiative.

The objective was to obtain general feedback about the process and the
quality of the implementation, and specifics about the ways in which
different types of actors could imagine to act with and within the
proposed architecture or in its variations.



The ?Open Notes? and the public debate

The project team has paid much attention to communication in the
public sphere, both through its own initiatives and by participating
in the ones of other actors and organizations.

The Open Notes have possibly been the most evident of these
initiatives, in collaboration with Opera Viva Magazine, an online
publication dedicated to the arts, philosophical speculation,
decolonisation and critical theory.

The open notes are a narrative and dissemination format which we used
to publish documentation which could also be not definitive or in
progress, to trigger public debate around it. The initiative has a
twofold aim: to make the process known to a wider audience and to
obtain feedback that could also be informal, for example through
comments and posts on social networks.

The series of 10 articles is titled ?La Cura ai tempi del Coronavirus?
(Iaconesi, 2020, ?The Cure at the time of Coronavirus?). The narrative
starts from a disruption: during the COVID19 pandemic Salvatore
Iaconesi, one of the founders of the research center, has a cancer
relapse. The experience of La Cura (?The Cure?, Iaconesi e Persico,
2016a) ? through which Iaconesi had transformed in 2012 his brain
cancer into a new way to position disease in society through a
collaboration among science, technology arts and design ? had shown a
way in which data and computation could have a role in society to
confront complex issues. The planetary pandemics was the way in which
the necessity of an epistemological disruption could be highlighted,
embodying in the new research center.

Each article was published and shared on major social networks
(Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Academia and Researchgate).
In this way the first 7 articles that had been published by the end of
2020 achieved a reach of around 70thousand, more than 4 thousand
reactions, around 400 re-shares and, most importantly, a little less
than 800 comments.

The first one, titled ?Sogni e nuovi rituali? introduced the general
format ? a near future narrative, followed by a critical analysis and
by a series of methodological indications ? and started talking about
the Rituals of the New Living, to exist in an hyperconnected and
globalized world characterized by ecosystemic challenges such as
climate change, pandemics, health, poverty and, sadly, many others,
and on the idea that surviving in this scenario requires new alliances
with data and computational agents.

The second article, titled ?I rituali del nuovo abitare. Dopo la
tragedia.?, confronts with the theme of establishing a Culture of
Ecosystems (Cultura Ecosistemica) which results from the conflict
between two opposing agencies: ?the individual ones, of and around our
bodies, psychologies, centers? and ?the ecosystemic ones, which is
diffused, systemic, ubiquitous, social and oriented to complexity?.
The solution is found in Art ? which is able to deal with the
dimension of tragedy, incompleteness, mystery and paradox ? and
sensitility, the attitude of transforming ?things? into entities that
can be the subject/object of forms of sensorial experience.

The third article, titled ?Intimit?, Incompletezza, Interpretazione.
Rituali del s? connettivo dopo la tragedia?, starts dealing with data
and computation. Currently, both constitute extractive processes in
our society. The article explores the ways in which they can be
transformed into phenomena of autobiographical expression and of
self-representation. A first point made in the article is to open up
to the opportunities represented by what we intend as forms of life ?
whether they are carbon based, or made of silicon, or of legal
contracts ? and, thus, to deal with a world which we know is
ambiguous, paradoxical, incomplete, only partially knowable,
mysterious and interpretable.

?This is a substantial difference, because while in the first modality
[the one of incompleteness and interpretation] data is the beginning
[...], in this second modality [the one of extraction and computation]
data is an end: data is used to construct a representation, and that
is the end of the discussion. In quantified self data exists only at
one level: extraction, through which a device can be fabricated to
consume oneself. In the New Rituals, instead, we want to orient
ourselves towards a larger capacity, towards a wider communicational
and meta-communicational bandwidth, towards the possibility of
enabling interaction on more, different levels, with diverse types of
contributions.?

The fourth article, ?Quelli che Immuni non ??, starts off from the the
worldwide adoption of contact tracing apps to contrast the pandemics
(Immuni is the name of the app used by the italian government), to
observe and speculate around new ways in which data and computation
can be part of new rituals of our daily lives. Can these rituals be
only useful, or only effective? Of course there is no single answer,
and the article introduces the notion of the emotional, relational,
symbolic, cultural, expressive, even magical valence of objects,
services (which are, to all effects, peculiar rituals), platforms and
others. In general, the capacity of generating a sense of meaning and
ownership, and the aesthetics ? the characteristic of being exposed to
the senses ? of all these things largely depends on these last
factors.

The fifth article, ?La Spirale della Conoscenza?, enters in vivo in
the models that direct the life of the research center, its
architecture, its geometries and its practices. In the specifics, the
performative knowledge model that is used in the research center is
closely described. Knowledge is seen as alive and organic in society,
only as it is performed by different types of actors.

?From this point of view, knowledge can be described as a living
organism: when it is born, it is for the
combination/reproduction/alteration of two or more concepts, actors,
information, data, objects, or other. While it lives, it does so in
the interpretations of the actors who interact with it: people and
organizations that use this technology in their lives, computational
entities that collect or use it for something ? to use in a search
engine, or feed it to artificial intelligences, or something/someone
else. (Note: in the age of digital mediation, can knowledge enter in
relationship with a tree, or with the sea, or with other non-human
actors? Certainly.)?

The same article gives a first public iteration for a definition of
the research center, its themes and its inner workings:

?HER She Loves Data deals with data and computation in its
psychological, relational, social and environmental dimensions and
implications. HER She Loves Data uses existential models, not
extractive ones: data and computation are treated as elements of the
existence of the actors of which they are expression, and of the ways
in which these actors decide to express and represent themselves. Data
is not extracted from behaviours and from the environment, to be then
processed, studied and represented in the separation of laboratories
or of data centers. Instead, they are generated by the actors of the
ecosystem and by their aggregations, and live in a new alliance among
them and researchers, other people, computational agents,
organizations and the environments, where they all become partners in
the research process.

HER She Loves Data uses Art as a mode of participatory knowledge. It
experiments, studies and designs the ritualities through which data
and computation manifest themselves in people?s lives and in the ones
of communities, organizations, institutions and of non-human actors ?
for example of the environment, or computational actors ?, for how
they inhabit the world, individually and in relation with the other
actors.

This knowledge model constitutes HER She Loves Data?s fundamental
infrastructure, and is called the Archive of the Rituals of the New
Living.?

The sixth article, titled ?Fisica, Chimica, Biologia ed Ecologia del
Nuovo Abitare? starts building in practice the way in which this
knowledge can be created and shared. It does it by establishing a
parallel between the ways in which other scientific disciplines work,
their axioms, theories, theorems and hypotheses.

The article features a starting definition of the New Living:

?New Living is the condition in which a new cosmology is adopted,
where human beings are not at the center, but part of a dynamic and
diverse network of actors and agents: human, non-human, computational,
with legal identity, plants, animals, complex actors such as forests
and the seas. In this new living, data and computation have an
important role. Given the globalized and hyperconnected character of
the contexts that we inhabit, our senses are not sufficient anymore to
perceive and understand what is and happens around ourselves.

This is only perceivable and understandable through enormous
quantities and qualities of interconnected, incomplete and
interpretable data, that can only be dealt with through the mediation
of computational agents. For this, we need new senses/sensibilities ?
to bring these dimensions to sensitility, to that which can be
experienced through our senses ?. The New Living is all about these
new possible alliances with data and computational agents.?

Thus, the new disciplines of the New Living, according to which this
new knowledge can be defined, are laid out:

The Physics of the New Living, that tries to explore how things work,
function, live.

The Chemistry of the New Living, that tries to explore matter in this
context, its particles, waves, atoms, bonds, molecules, crystals,
materials, reactions.

The Biology of the New Living, trying to understand what combinations
of humans, non-humans, data, information, knowledge, computation and
elements of the environment are able to express the characteristics of
life, that are: order (cellularity, complexity); encoding (information
processing); regulation (homeostasis); growth and evolution
(autonomously, given enough resources); energy (metabolism);
irritability, sensibility, mobility (interaction among peers, or with
others); reproduction (giving life to other fertile organisms);
evolutionary potential (horizontal, vertical, genetic, environmental
and epigenetic, hence the capacity to adapt).

The Ecology of the New Living, which holds the previous ones together,
studying their relations, and that does not limit itself to
observation, but proceeds to a performative attitude that is
transformative of the present, throgh a social performance of
imagination (for which we use the collaborative exploration of the
present/future through Near Future Design).

The seventh article, titled ?L?Archivio dei Rituali del Nuovo
Abitare?, describes the main asset of the research center, the
archive: ARNA, Archivio dei Rituali del Nuovo Abitare (Archive of the
Rituals of the New Living).

ARNA is described as:

?ARNA is the archive of the knowledge developed about the Rituals of
the New Living [...], which are the recurrent and encoded practices
[...] in which data and computation enter daily life in ways that have
a sufficient emotional engagement, an aesthetic component ? which can
also be characteristic of different cultures in different times ?, an
evolution ? to update its significance ?, a social function ? that
allows to build and refresh bonding ?, and that have a defined
positioning at a level of our psychology (unconscious, conscious,
relational, social...)?.

Derrida's Mal d?Archive (1995) is used to establish a parallel between
psychology and the archive, to describe the ways in which power
manifests itself in the research center, as well as the way in which
reading the archive can revolutionize psychology (a data-psychology?).

The Archive ?leaves open spaces that we can fill with ourselves, and
that we can use to explore ourselves, in the archive and through the
archive. In the space in-between.?

Thus, if ARNA is the knowledge about the Rituals of the New Living (as
we have defined it in the previous article), the Archive itself is the
Psychology of the New Living, because it allows to:

observe the New Living as an instrument for the exercise of power (who
decides the order, and what is included/excluded/forgot/moved...);

observe the open spaces that are created within the order, to
understand how other actors express and take ownership, for their own
self-representation;

observe the synthesis, the instability, the game that is played, the
resulting movement, to try to understand life-through-the-archive and
archive-through-life.

The following three articles will deal with:

an autobiographical take on the meaning of why we are designing the
research center in this way;

the sustainability of the research center, both environmental,
economic and psychological, with a section on Intellectual Property;

the next steps.

The next steps

The next steps in the design and creation of the research center will
be the following:

the creation of a communication format for the open peer review, in
which the concept of the research center will be broken down in
different sections and each section will undergo a public peer review
under the form of recurrent events;

network building and extended feedback; using the outputs of the
previous steps, and engaging the actors that have participated up to
this moment together with their reference networks, with the role of
validating/correcting the model and to start forming the CoPs, the
Core CoP and the services and infrastructures;

headquarters and fundraising; at this stage, the kinds of spaces,
infrastructures, materials and skills needed for the research center
will be clear and, thus, a fundraising stage and the active search for
the headquarter/locations/services will begin, with private and public
participation and also in consideration with the desired engagement
with the local communities and territories;

detailed design, executive design and multi-year planning of the
implementation; we, then, will be ready to start planning for
execution, to transform the concepts and diagrams into architectures,
live processes and the life of the future research center.


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> > On 24 Feb 2021, at 3:42 pm, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > ?klaus frieder et yasmin pirates and phoenicians
> >
> > the discussion about 'little research labs' reminds me of the discussions thirty
> > years by ago by Hakim Bey
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
> > advocating Temporary Autonomous Zones
> >
> > but also three years ago we started an artscience Air B and B in our
> > family house in paris, annick bureaud has now been running a series
> > of art science residencies there- where there MUST be a mixture of guests
> > from different disciplines staying at the air b and b at teh same time
> >
> > private homes are where 19th century salons gathered proust and picasso
> > and carl jung -universities are great-lots of heat and internet- but the kind
> > of discussions that can go on in TAZ air b and b culture are really i think
> > more generative of desirable outputs
> >
> > roger malina
> >
> >
> > Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 2:18 AM xDxD.vs.xDxD <xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Frieder
> >>>
> >>> I am afraid, that takes away a lot from the situation of the little research center.
> >>
> >> it's really a choice. And it has its pros and cons. In a small organisation you have more freedom and agility, and you don't necessarily have to adhere to the rankings and mad quantities (for example of students and publications each year). You have a say in what you choose to do.
> >> On the other hand there's more risk involved, and you have to be really active: there's no big organization that will back you up, or to provide the prestige or reputation. You will always be the odd one, or the one who really has to fight to get the point across.
> >> But there's space for everyone. If the Internet taught us anything is that there is space both for Amazon and for niche boutiques. That is if boutiques manage to generate narratives and imaginaries that allow people to find them.
> >>
> >> Me and my wife abandoned universities like 6 years ago, and opened this "little research center".
> >> Even if we're really small (there's 15 of us, plus several people who go back and forth) we partner with other larger universities and organizations, we work with the EU Commissions and governments etc: we do all the things which other research centers do. But being smaller, we can discuss and choose.
> >>
> >> We publish. We have institutional and strategic communication.
> >> We have students, internships, masters. Many times, we hire (or work with) the people we taught something to.
> >>
> >> Soon, we will have an hotel, where we will live (some permanently, some temporarily), research, experiment, teach, learn, eat, invite, leave from, arrive at, etc
> >>
> >> In a way, we're more similar to what Donna Haraway would call a new type of kinship. Which is a nice thing to explore as a research center.
> >>
> >> And we have a model for it (we're completing the documentation right now (for now there's this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YUwoq5yLXcHlC5YBelflJQhUZ0cvsU49/view?usp=sharing ), so that it's also replicable, evolvable etc
> >>
> >> This is also a nice thing to explore on Yasmin: how to organize ourselves. Hope you explore with us!
> >>
> >> kind wishes
> >> Salvatore
> >>
> >> (note: what address should we use in the Yasmin-phoenix transition? I saw that it is currently defaulting to forwarding to both addresses, as well to personal addresses. I will do this last one like this, and maybe from the next one I will only use the discussions address?)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Art is Open Source - http://www.artisopensource.net
> >> Human Ecosystems Relazioni - https://www.he-r.it/
> >> Ubiquitous Commons - http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org
> >
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> klaus frieder et yasmin pirates and phoenicians
>
> the discussion about 'little research labs' reminds me of the discussions thirty
> years by ago by Hakim Bey
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
> advocating Temporary Autonomous Zones
>
> but also three years ago we started an artscience Air B and B in our
> family house in paris, annick bureaud has now been running a series
> of art science residencies there- where there MUST be a mixture of guests
> from different disciplines staying at the air b and b at teh same time
>
> private homes are where 19th century salons gathered proust and picasso
> and carl jung -universities are great-lots of heat and internet- but the kind
> of discussions that can go on in TAZ air b and b culture are really i think
> more generative of desirable outputs
>
> roger malina
>
>
> Roger in Dallas, please phone/txt/ +15108532007 if urgent
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 2:18 AM xDxD.vs.xDxD <xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Frieder
> >>
> >> I am afraid, that takes away a lot from the situation of the little research center.
> >
> > it's really a choice. And it has its pros and cons. In a small organisation you have more freedom and agility, and you don't necessarily have to adhere to the rankings and mad quantities (for example of students and publications each year). You have a say in what you choose to do.
> > On the other hand there's more risk involved, and you have to be really active: there's no big organization that will back you up, or to provide the prestige or reputation. You will always be the odd one, or the one who really has to fight to get the point across.
> > But there's space for everyone. If the Internet taught us anything is that there is space both for Amazon and for niche boutiques. That is if boutiques manage to generate narratives and imaginaries that allow people to find them.
> >
> > Me and my wife abandoned universities like 6 years ago, and opened this "little research center".
> > Even if we're really small (there's 15 of us, plus several people who go back and forth) we partner with other larger universities and organizations, we work with the EU Commissions and governments etc: we do all the things which other research centers do. But being smaller, we can discuss and choose.
> >
> > We publish. We have institutional and strategic communication.
> > We have students, internships, masters. Many times, we hire (or work with) the people we taught something to.
> >
> > Soon, we will have an hotel, where we will live (some permanently, some temporarily), research, experiment, teach, learn, eat, invite, leave from, arrive at, etc
> >
> > In a way, we're more similar to what Donna Haraway would call a new type of kinship. Which is a nice thing to explore as a research center.
> >
> > And we have a model for it (we're completing the documentation right now (for now there's this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YUwoq5yLXcHlC5YBelflJQhUZ0cvsU49/view?usp=sharing ), so that it's also replicable, evolvable etc
> >
> > This is also a nice thing to explore on Yasmin: how to organize ourselves. Hope you explore with us!
> >
> > kind wishes
> > Salvatore
> >
> > (note: what address should we use in the Yasmin-phoenix transition? I saw that it is currently defaulting to forwarding to both addresses, as well to personal addresses. I will do this last one like this, and maybe from the next one I will only use the discussions address?)
> >
> > --
> > Art is Open Source - http://www.artisopensource.net
> > Human Ecosystems Relazioni - https://www.he-r.it/
> > Ubiquitous Commons - http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org
>
>
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