The Conference: Hyperpolis 4 - Augmented Participation (UPDATED!)
Announcing the Hyperpolis 4 conference and celebration of new media.
Presented by the Integrated Digital Media Institue, Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences, Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Polytechnic Institute of NYU.
Topic:
Augmented Participation
The use of media communication tools and practices to facilitate, accelerate, intensify, and follow up in participatory design processes, from curricula to neighborhoods to bodies politic.
As successive technological revolutions have been touted in the service of prior concepts of society, culture, planning, and process (print, film, television, the internet, computer games), new practices have indeed emerged, in the service of a very broad spectrum of understandings of "participation", from crowdsourcing to new forms of community involvement in urban planning and design. In "developed" countries, the recognized technical impediments to direct democracy in government, architecture, media, and education have been removed... and yet, we still find that we have work to do.
Sessions:
Designing Participation (October 16, 10am)
What tools and techniques have worked for what kind of participation? Must we recognize or reject the idea that every participatory process starts with a measure of social engineering? Must there be a meta-design process at the outset of some projects? Full disclosure of the methods and rationale for the choices made?
Failures (October 17, 12pm)
Case studies of participatory processes that have failed to meet expectations or goals: how? why? what can we infer from the particular case moving forward?
Successes (October 17, 2pm)
Case studies of participatory processes that have achieved their goals: how? why? what can we infer from the particular case moving forward?
The submission deadline for papers is May 15, 2009.
For more information or to register for the conference and/or propose a workshop visit the Hyperpolis website: http://idmi.poly.edu/hyperpolis
