hello spiders and draft slides #mosocoop #mtw3 #oldsmooc

Hellospiders2013

I think this is still fitting together ok

I have tried a draft of slides for the March meeting of the Deming Sig. Also a still of the #tags for Hello Spiders

I still don't have a definition of design Science or a clear distinction from social science. But after the radio show on Thursday there could be some better connections or at least a bit of record on how a radio show might be.

I think it is from user experience design that the energy is coming. Teaching Design is headed the same way but presumably will influence most of education. So there will be management implications that could use similar methods and assumptions.

The MoSO meeting could look at how teaching design can influence how MoSO is presented. Meanwhile #oldsmooc will help me to get a better idea of design science, and #mtw3 to relate this to management.

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Design Science as a link #mtw3 #oldsmooc #mosocoop

I think Design Science could be a link for various ideas. I am getting used to how it is used as part of the OLDS MOOC. Also it is continuing as a topic for the MoSO discussion. there will be a face to face meeting in March which will be a good chance for some talk. There is a limit to online conversation, you need a check every so often. The #mtw3 content looks back to the learning organisation. I think design science continues this somehow but not sure how to map this.

More later, any clues welcome if you have suggestions.

Sound clips on Design Science for Wild Show tomorrow

I have loaded a couple of clips to Soundcloud, partly as a backup but also for people who can't hear Phonic FM in Exeter. There is a web stream but no listen again.

Conversation with JD will continue. He is ok with design but not so sure about science. We will listen to the clips and then design the rest of the show.

Any good bits may well turn up on YouTube later.

Leuphana Digital City, now I am a Supporter

Somehow I have been reclassified as a supporter. Not sure why this is, I thought I had made a start on the current project.

Anyway, it may help me to keep track of my own direction rather than making the deadlines of the plan.

I wanted to add a link to these two photos so now I will continue such things in this blog

I am exploring the city as images, they don't have to be real. I would find it easier to know where ExCel is if I could walk to it. Following conversation on Wild Show we think the cable cars are more likely than a decent footpath from the Olympic site.

Also the cable cars may reach Exeter via the Otter valley. At least we may get that far in the summer. 

Leuphana Digital 3rd Assignment: Develop your vision

This is a start on the third stage of a MOOC on cities. A later version will include other views and could be longer. Not sure where this will go but i am beginning to get an outline. This may continue on this blog, the MOOC has its own timetable and team requirements.

also a Google doc

Third Assignment: Develop your vision


This is more like a blog post for me. Towards the end is more on my situation.

I am finding the various forms of “ideal” city quite hard to follow. Most of these ideas are open to abuse as they are interpreted or realised. There is a constant struggle in society that is more of a context than anything abstract. So I am interested in slight shifts rather than anything grand. The main thing is to look at the internet and online worlds that can complement buildings as they currently exist. There is still a role for actual places. In learning the favoured term is “blended” and this can relate to other scenes as well. It worries me that visions about the city are likely to result in expense to either redevelop existing places or to extend the city into the country.

The functions of the city can be the same as for a set of web sites. Cultural exchange, spiritual sites, education, research / science / technology , shopping both for essentials and entertainment / experiences.

The web has always had an element of idealised vision. Recently the “social media” phase seems to include massive online Public Relations so the original community is often crowded out. But it still has potential to offer the same functions as real space with lower costs and a global reach. The City is associated with finance, much of the gloss is covering financial structures. The web is also based on strong central nodes for a network but there is still some possibility to contest this.

Saskia Sassen "The Future of Smart Cities"



This talk is out of balance I think. It concentrates on the limitations of computer systems on offer from companies. There could be more attention for the networks based in communities. I will come back to this during the next week or so. By the way I find the half hour YouTube clip ok to relate to. The ones on the course are mostly so short I get confused as to which bit follows on.

The main advantage of the web over cities is that space can be more distributed. Some so called cities are really county towns ( Exeter for example where I live ) In theory there could be similar bandwidth throughout the region. Time travel is also possible online. Special environments in time can be as creative as spaces.




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Fourth principle. Heterotopias are most often linked to slices in time — which is to say that they open onto what might be termed, for the sake of symmetry, heterochronies.

http://foucault.info/documents/heteroTopia/foucault.heteroTopia.en.html

from previous document on Significant Detail
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Assuming connectivity through the web, it is possible for creative work in smaller towns, possibly in villages. People sometimes talk about a village as part of a larger site. This may be a sub group, such as pubs with an open mic. One research aim is to explore the minimum requirement to be a base for relating to the web. Exeter may have enough - several mobile phone shops, computer stores, a library with web access. Also cafes with wifi. There needs to be the basics for real existence also, food and transport.

In the UK there is a term “non-viable community”, not official but used by telecoms companies to describe a village or area that they see no need to connect. I’m not sure what is supposed to happen in such places. But there must be something a bit larger that can be sustained.

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More about Exeter, Lancaster, London

I notice more investment in buildings than web sites when I visit the university campus, both in Lancaster and Exeter. The university campus seems now to be comparable to a city centre. However the function is not always improved. In Exeter the new Forum development has resulted in the loss of a bookshop. Apparently a bookshop no longer fits with the design values for the retail space. This may turn out to be very sensible as bookshops face more problems in the high street. But if there is no need for a bookshop, what is the case for a library or lecture seats. It may be possible for the university to return to the city centre. Another loss has been parking spaces for visitors. There are not enough buses to replace this so there are problems in attending the theatre or concerts. In Lancaster there are new buildings for an arts department but a gallery in the centre has recently closed. I get the impression that universities have accepted the idea that new buildings are part of a process in establishing a global brand. They become the local economy rather than part of it. The economics seem to depend on future income from student fees so it is not clear this trend will continue indefinitely. One problem is that a new building is an event, so in a few years they may need another one.

London is still pleased with the Olympics but on a recent visit to ExCel I discovered that the walking route from the Olympic site along the river Lea is unlikely to be completed. There were inspiring plans at the time of the bid but now there is no budget. There is very little attention for the locality around the Olympic site. There has always been a walking route along the canal from Victoria Park to Hackney Marshes. Most of the river has a foot path. The walking connection between the Olympics and Excel will have to be in the imagination or a virtual world. there is a rail link but I don’t think places relate together unless there is a walk so that the surroundings can be seen.

Twinity

I have spent some time in Twinity, starting with Berlin. There used to be maps and streets but this has now gone as the costs are too high. I don’t understand why cities do not find ways to cover this as they benefit from the interest online. Maybe there will be other virtual worlds that relate to actual space. I don’t mind fantasy cities as well as smaller spaces that are easy to live in.


Switchcam test, Phonic benefit tonight #PhonicParty

Just as well I was actually there for the Wild show yesterday and stayed for coffee later., I do know that it is possible there will be at least one extra camera

Zero foillowers

just me as camera shown at the moment

but this is still a beta site. A few examples should get more interest for the next one.

Any links to this or previous Phonic benefits still very welcome.

Links to journals on Design Science #designscience #oldsmooc #mosocoop #mtw3

Couple of Tweets from yesterday

 and yes,  is rooted in a pragmatist epistemology, ala Peirce, Dewey & James 


  see  vs. design / design science 


The links are one that has the PDF available for download

Designerly ways of knowing: design discipline versus design science

Cross, Nigel (2001). Designerly ways of knowing: design discipline versus design science. Design Issues, 17(3), pp. 49–55.

and one for which you need to find a proper library

Design approaches in technology enhanced learning

Mor, Yishay and Winters, Niall (2007). Design approaches in technology enhanced learning. Interactive Learning Environments, 15(1), pp. 61–75.

I will try to find this later at St Lukes. They usually are helpful.

The video from yesterday has some useful explanation of what design science might mean in practice.

Next week is all about open resources so we should find more stuff we can download.


#mtw3 and #mosocoop to reach two other groups also looking at design science.





Sparkle plot and Kurt Vonnegut theory

The DVD has arrived so I have seen Sparkle on a small screen.

It is not the greatest drama ever but the music is very strong and I still don't understand why it was not in UK cinemas ( with very few exceptions, certainly not west of Bristol)

I have now found this on YouTube, which explains the story structure

There are variations in the story but I notice towards the end as happiness is off scale there is a higher proportion of music.

I'm still looking for an Exeter venue.