Difference between revisions of "Open 2009 notes"

Revision as of 12:48, 6 November 2009

General

• Open 2009 website
• about 100 participants
• everything working nicely
• great audio/video -systems, multiple cameras
• online broadcast
• too long day program (9:00 to 18:30)
• too long sessions maybe... (1h 30 min - 1h 45 min)
• note to self! Check out PollDadd extension for Mediawiki and http://www.polldaddy.com
• Qaiku -channel for (informal) comments etc. during the presentations is quite interesting idea but it seem to have some technical "thingys" so I do not think of using it.
• It is getting quite clear that wiki is the best available solution for OA method. Very few presentations actually have a clear tool or a system which is used in almost everyday life and for multiple purposes like Opasnet wiki is.

5th of November

Keynote: Yrjö Engeström - The educational value of learning by cheating

• Tries to explain why cheating is good
• Studying stuff that will be on tests, not the whole content
• learning vs. grades
• not very useful to memorize lots of irrelevant stuff
• Italy has a culture of cheating in final exams
• It takes months to prepare a good cheating ware (belts etc.)
• Gathering data from multiple sources to create a synthesis of knowledge
• Preparation involves parents, grandparents and friends
• Bad cheating is to use a ready made cheating slips
• Good cheating is to create your own slips
• Several students did not need to use cheating slips -> preparing them was enough
• Cheating involves bad questions (fixed answers) and bad teaching
• In a test with good questions (no fixed answer) cheating is not that useful -> you can't find correct answers anywhere

Keynote: Jiri Räsänen - eCars Now!

• Open design EV
• eCars now! community, mostly finnish people participating
• Open source, documentation and CAD models
• Community has a wide range of backgrounds
• Electric cars have a history beginning from early 1900's
• Conversion takes only one weekend
• Compromises needs to be made because of fund limits related to material world
• Note to self: check out google sketch

Microdemocracy

• NOTE tool (database for ideas)
• works as a organizational memory
• different channels for posting notes
• somehow linked

Somus

Wikiplanning

• Public participation in planning (city planning)
• No actual electric tool yet...

Openness, inclusion and participation in museums

• Open = inclusion + participation

Open-ended engagement

• OpenKiasma...

Killer fashion revolution

• Wikisite

Living laboratories as human centric innovation centers

•  ?

Collaborative board game design

• http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/uutiset/siirtolapuutarhapelit-megapolis-2024/
• variations on the idea of Carcassone

6th of November

Keynote: Massimo Menichinelli - openp2pdesign

• Strategic design project that offers Open P2P design projects
• Designing things openly, software etc. not limited to immaterial stuff
• OpenMoko (Open mobile phone) http://www.openmoko.org
• Open source projects are complex
• Open P2P design is open tools + open process

Keynote: Saara Taalas - Notes on fan organisation

• http://www.dabbawalla.com
• Fandom: organisation of production and consumption

World wide views on global warming information videos

• because climate change affects everyone, everyone should have a vote?
• http://www.wwviews.org

Ubiquitous open participation platform - yet another push for deliberative democracy

• what is deliberative democracy
  • public
  • open
  • argumentation is valued, HOW?
  • opinions may be changed due the dialogue
• some prototype mobile phone software

CANVA(S)s

• study attempts to identify the elements that create urban experiences
• Note to self! Check out http://www.vimeo.com
• there's no places in the downtown helsinki where you can spend some time without buying something...

Visual design in the age of network

The future of personal digital information

ICT for personal regulation of physical resource consumption