[open-science] last places: Design Patterns for civic empowerment, March 17th, London Knowledge Lab

Thu Mar 12 10:14:15 UTC 2009

Design Patterns for civic empowerment

 A joint workshop of the Pattern Language
Network<http://projects.lkl.ac.uk/planet>,
the Public Sphere Project <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/>, and PRADSA
network <http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/>

*Date*: 17th March, 2009 *Location*: London Knowledge
Lab<http://lkl.ac.uk/contact>
*Registration*: http://socialactionpatterns.eventbrite.com/ *details*:
http://purl.org/planet/Groups.SocialAction/

For the last seven years, the public sphere
project<http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/>has been
developing the Liberating Voices pattern language, which aims to
help people think about, design, develop, manage and use information and
communication systems that more fully meet human needs now — and in the
future. Each pattern in this language, when complete, will represent an
important insight that will help contribute to a communication revolution.
A book that contains the first version of the Liberating Voices pattern
language is now available from MIT
Press<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601>.

To celebrate the release of this book, we will be running a pattern workshop
on the theme of civic empowerment and social action. This workshop will
follow the methodology<http://patternlanguagenetwork.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Outcomes/Methodology>developed
by the Planet project, and refined through a long series of
events.

This workshop will bring together social and technology activists to explore
the opportunities and challenges that participatory media bring to social
action and civic empowerment. It will provide participants an invaluable
opportunity to share their experiences and collaboratively reflect on them,
highlighting common problems and possible solutions.

___________________________
 Yishay Mor, Researcher, London Knowledge Lab
  http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/mor.html
  http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=yishaym%40gmail.com
  +44-20-78378888 x5737
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