Presentation delivered at the Cultural Leadership Forum in Taipei on December 1st 2018. It deals with cultural leadership issues based on my experience at DesignLab, Waag Society, V2_ and Tetem.
DesignLab is a creative and cross-disciplinary ecosystem, connecting science and society by way of creative intelligence and transdisciplinary innovation. It fosters an entrepreneurial mind-set; contributes to educate global citizens of tomorrow, focuses on societal challenges and forges new and effective collaborations. Faculty and students from various academic fields work together with companies and governments to implement and develop scientific and technological insights that can be used in finding and shaping creative, innovative and meaningful solutions for complex societal challenges. Positioned deliberately at the cross-roads of design (thinking), technology, science and humanities, it both bridges and transcends traditional ways of innovation.
Educational technology, academic labour, and a pedagogy for class struggleRichard Hall
My presentation at the Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution, Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Edinburgh, on Friday 6 September, 2013. See: http://www.richard-hall.org/2013/09/01/educational-technology-academic-labour-and-a-pedagogy-for-class-struggle/
DesignLab is a creative and cross-disciplinary ecosystem, connecting science and society by way of creative intelligence and transdisciplinary innovation. It fosters an entrepreneurial mind-set; contributes to educate global citizens of tomorrow, focuses on societal challenges and forges new and effective collaborations. Faculty and students from various academic fields work together with companies and governments to implement and develop scientific and technological insights that can be used in finding and shaping creative, innovative and meaningful solutions for complex societal challenges. Positioned deliberately at the cross-roads of design (thinking), technology, science and humanities, it both bridges and transcends traditional ways of innovation.
Educational technology, academic labour, and a pedagogy for class struggleRichard Hall
My presentation at the Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution, Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Edinburgh, on Friday 6 September, 2013. See: http://www.richard-hall.org/2013/09/01/educational-technology-academic-labour-and-a-pedagogy-for-class-struggle/
FemTechNet is a network of international scholars and artists activated by Alexandra Juhasz and Anne Balsamo to design, implement, and teach the first DOCC (Distributed Online Collaborative Course), a feminist rethinking of the MOOC. The course, Feminist Dialogues on Technology, will be offered in fifteen classrooms, at least one in every continent, in the Fall of 2013. This project uses technology to enable interdisciplinary and international conversation while privileging situated diversity and networked agency. Building the course on a shared set of recorded dialogues with the world’s preeminent thinkers and artists who consider technology through a feminist lens, the rest of the course will be built, and customized for the network’s local classrooms and communities, by network members who submit and evaluate Boundary Objects that Learn—the course’s basic pedagogic instruments.
FemTechNet invites interested scholars and artists to join this project and help build this course. In this seminar, Alexandra Juhasz and Anne Balsamo discuss how this innovative project got started, explore the model of distributed online collaborative courses, and lead a discussion of how FemTechNet or similar courses might fit within the liberal arts curriculum.
Speakers
Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, and Anne Balsamo, Dean of the School of Media Studies, New School for Public Engagement (New York).
Presentation given by W. Joseph King, president of Lyon College, at the University of Wyoming Summit: The AI Disruption of Work - Educational Responses on June 15, 2018.
This is an update of an earlier presentation so is part repeat, but reflects my own growing in understanding of open scholarship over the last year or so.
Linking the spaces between unitec research symposium presentationJay_dub
Presentation to the Unitec Institute of Technology annual Research Symposium, 2 October 2014, relating the scale and scope of a community media project in Auckland, New Zealand. The project is comprised of layers: the creation of documentaries for broadcast, with student involvement and community stakeholder engagement, as well as a research component As the work is in progress, this presentation gave the opportunity to review and reflect on the multiple challenges and opportunities inherent in this collaborative work.
I am an Australian-born, NYC-living entrepreneur that cares deeply about creating authentic education experiences that utilize technology to improve student lives.
Presentation on the Center for Science (a national collaborative network of science centers) and other collaborative networks impacting STEM education. Moderated by Carol Valenta, speakers: David Chesebrough, Chris Dornfeld, Jennifer Jovanovic, Christian Greer
The European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) is a two-year project co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme. The project helps Creative Hubs connect and collaborate across Europe.
A lecture by Outi Kuittinen for The New School’s Transdisciplinary Design MA program on how to use co-creation as a strategic tool for change.
Email: outi.kuittinen(a)demoshelsinki.fi Twitter: @outikookoo
Pauline is a young French professional who graduated in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at SKEMA, Suzhou, China. After working in different sustainability-focused startups and in a Parisian incubator for web startups, she is now China coordinator for GROUPE SOS, one of the foremost European social enterprises. GROUPE SOS fights against poverty and social exclusion, and also supports social entrepreneurs through consulting missions, incubation programs and impact investing. After exploring the local market of social economy, she is starting to work on some co-created projects with local actors in order to foster social entrepreneurship in China.
The Social Express is a non-profit that organizes original trips to support the social entrepreneurship sector and its actors while training the youth to be more impactful. After a trip to Paris and Bucharest last year to work on the 10 entrepreneurs projects, The Social Express is heading to Shanghai for the 2015 Asia edition.
FemTechNet is a network of international scholars and artists activated by Alexandra Juhasz and Anne Balsamo to design, implement, and teach the first DOCC (Distributed Online Collaborative Course), a feminist rethinking of the MOOC. The course, Feminist Dialogues on Technology, will be offered in fifteen classrooms, at least one in every continent, in the Fall of 2013. This project uses technology to enable interdisciplinary and international conversation while privileging situated diversity and networked agency. Building the course on a shared set of recorded dialogues with the world’s preeminent thinkers and artists who consider technology through a feminist lens, the rest of the course will be built, and customized for the network’s local classrooms and communities, by network members who submit and evaluate Boundary Objects that Learn—the course’s basic pedagogic instruments.
FemTechNet invites interested scholars and artists to join this project and help build this course. In this seminar, Alexandra Juhasz and Anne Balsamo discuss how this innovative project got started, explore the model of distributed online collaborative courses, and lead a discussion of how FemTechNet or similar courses might fit within the liberal arts curriculum.
Speakers
Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, and Anne Balsamo, Dean of the School of Media Studies, New School for Public Engagement (New York).
Presentation given by W. Joseph King, president of Lyon College, at the University of Wyoming Summit: The AI Disruption of Work - Educational Responses on June 15, 2018.
This is an update of an earlier presentation so is part repeat, but reflects my own growing in understanding of open scholarship over the last year or so.
Linking the spaces between unitec research symposium presentationJay_dub
Presentation to the Unitec Institute of Technology annual Research Symposium, 2 October 2014, relating the scale and scope of a community media project in Auckland, New Zealand. The project is comprised of layers: the creation of documentaries for broadcast, with student involvement and community stakeholder engagement, as well as a research component As the work is in progress, this presentation gave the opportunity to review and reflect on the multiple challenges and opportunities inherent in this collaborative work.
I am an Australian-born, NYC-living entrepreneur that cares deeply about creating authentic education experiences that utilize technology to improve student lives.
Presentation on the Center for Science (a national collaborative network of science centers) and other collaborative networks impacting STEM education. Moderated by Carol Valenta, speakers: David Chesebrough, Chris Dornfeld, Jennifer Jovanovic, Christian Greer
The European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) is a two-year project co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe programme. The project helps Creative Hubs connect and collaborate across Europe.
A lecture by Outi Kuittinen for The New School’s Transdisciplinary Design MA program on how to use co-creation as a strategic tool for change.
Email: outi.kuittinen(a)demoshelsinki.fi Twitter: @outikookoo
Pauline is a young French professional who graduated in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at SKEMA, Suzhou, China. After working in different sustainability-focused startups and in a Parisian incubator for web startups, she is now China coordinator for GROUPE SOS, one of the foremost European social enterprises. GROUPE SOS fights against poverty and social exclusion, and also supports social entrepreneurs through consulting missions, incubation programs and impact investing. After exploring the local market of social economy, she is starting to work on some co-created projects with local actors in order to foster social entrepreneurship in China.
The Social Express is a non-profit that organizes original trips to support the social entrepreneurship sector and its actors while training the youth to be more impactful. After a trip to Paris and Bucharest last year to work on the 10 entrepreneurs projects, The Social Express is heading to Shanghai for the 2015 Asia edition.
Intelligent school design - english versionVoD_group
VoD platform proposes the postgraduate course “Intelligent school design” in order to give a practical interpretation to the recent D.M. 11/4/2013, guidelines for sustainable design of schools. The course works both in distance learning and in face to face learning. The organization of the course is thus light and interactive, it doesn't interfere with the working activities of the participants. Thou the low cost of participation, it gives a high surplus value, both professional and social, thanks to three final collaborative workshops.
Presentación de Steve Harding y Alexa Torlo, de la Birmingham City University, en el III Encuentro Nacional de Asociaciones de Diseño, para el Proyecto 1. Bases para las Políticas Públicas del Diseño en España. Completado con el caso práctico de Andy Hartwell (Substrakt, Ltd.).
Más info: www.designread.es/3enad
The project had its fundamentals from the OCSE Manual “A guide for local
governments, communities and museums ” that explains the importance and effect
on local community of transforming a museum from a place to visit into a “living
museum”, seen from the citizens and local government like the central point of the
local development.
Beyond the smart city. How open data, maker spaces and open IOT infrastructures can empower citizens to become the makers of change we duly need. While technology can make our lives easier and service provisioning more efficient, disruptive innovation comes from people who want to take their futures into their own hands. Entrepreneurs, hackers, designers, civil servants and inhabitants unite: here comes the hackable city.
Presentation delivered at Mess & Order, Stavanger, during the 2016 Hackathon.
A rapidly growing number of Smart Citizens take the future of the cities in which they live, work and play into their own hands. This takes knowledge, stamina, and access to networks of likeminded people. A large number of labs – like Fab Labs, Wet Labs, Maker Spaces and Code Clubs - are the places where this is happening at an increasingly massive scale. Their protagonists are artists, scientists and hackers, together cracking the code of hardware, software and wetware, coming up with new ideas and developing meaningful applications. In doing so, they gain a deeper understanding of the issues and forces that shape our world, and become (once again) the makers of change that our societies dearly need.
Presentation delivered at the Joint Research Center on April 9th.
Makers of Change & The Third Industrial Revolution - which might be up for revision since the Forth has been announced. However, here it is, marvelling the advances and aims of the Maker Movement for changing the Way Things Work.
Presentatie tbv. de kick-off van Schiedam Lab, op 5 november 2015. Over slimme burgers in slimme steden, en digitale sociale innovatie: deeleconomie, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding & collective intelligence. Over zelf maken en verantwoordelijkheid voor de plek waar je woont, werkt en leeft.
Het nieuwe maken - de derde industriële revolutieFrank Kresin
Presentatie tijdens Emerce Eday, 8 oktober 2015, over het nieuwe maken. Hoe ziet de maker movement eruit, waar zijn die makers te vinden, wat zijn hun ambities en resultaten, en hoe kunnen bedrijven hierop inspelen?
Environmental pollution is causing a wide range of diseases and premature deaths. Yet, public understanding of these important issues are lacking. The Smart Citizens Lab helps citizens to use open source hard- and software to complement existing environmental sensor networks and gain a better understanding of the current state of pollution, and make this insight actionable.
This presentation was delivered first at the Montréal Smart City Expo, March 26 2015.
Presentation delivered in a World Bank workshop on innovation hubs in Gran Concepcion, Chile, on October 6th till 10th 2014. The slideshow outlines Waag Society's approach and consists of four themes: ecosystem, delivering value, developing services & business, and delivering to the real world.
More information on the workshop (mostly in Spanish) can be found here: http://www.innovationhubs.org
Smart Citizen Kit in Barcelona, Amsterdam & ManchesterFrank Kresin
From March till June, the Barcelona built Smart Citizen Kit was implemented in Amsterdam. The project aimed to help citizens to get a better grips on the local climate, and to stimulate discussion between citizens, and between citizens and city officials and servants. This presentation talks about the reason for the project, the affordances of the Smart Citizen Kit, and
The project was initiated by Waag Society and Amsterdam Smart City, and partnered with Fablab Barcelona and FutureEverything. It was additionally funded by the Fund for the Creative Industries, NL.
Waag Society @ Labs for Creativity & InnovationFrank Kresin
Presentation about Waag Society, Institute for Art, Science & Technology, delivered by me at "Labs as Interfaces for Creativity and Innovation" in Berlin, 23th of June 2014.
CyberSalon - Smart Citizens, Cities & the Case for CitySDKFrank Kresin
What is the role of open data in smart cities - and how to get the most value out of it. The CitySDK Linked Data framework allows cities to publish real-time, five star linked open data; it allows developers to make software that scales, and citizens to choose for the best apps from around the world. Amongst the cities to implement CitySDK are Amsterdam, Manchester, Helsinki and Lisbon; many more to follow.
More information:
http://www.citysdk.eu/ & http://citysdk.waag.org/
Presented on the 27th of May at the CyberSalon in London, thanks for Eva Pascoe & friends.
Smart Cities, Smart Citizens and the case for the CitySDKFrank Kresin
Presentation at Information Access in Smart Cities workshop in Amsterdam, 13/04/2014 - on how smart citizens should be the focus in smart cities, and what CitySDK does to make it possible. The presentation starts with some design rules for smarter cities, then introduces Waag Society, and quickly moves on to the Amsterdam Case for Open Data. Then the shortcomings of this approach are described, after which it introduces the City Service Development Kit - a set of bottom up, harmonized API's for software development that scales across cities and countries. Some examples are presented, and it gets back to the central thesis: design smart cities with the people, not for or against them.
CitySDK Linked Data API presentation delivered at the National Open Data Congress, 28 februari 2014, Eindhoven, and, extended, at FutureEverything 2014, Manchester. CitySDK LD API provides services to collect, annotate, link, share and build on Open Data. It is used by cities, developers and small & medium sized enterprises to build applications that scale across departments & cities. More info can be found on http://citysdk.waag.org/api
CitySDK is a platform to share real-time data and making it available to developers and citizens alike. By implementing CitySDK, cities and citizens can make use of applications built elsewhere, while developers massively extend their potential reach. Opening up can lead to better services, and eventually better cities.
Open Innovation Methodologies @Waag Society Frank Kresin
How to design & develop technology for Social Innovation? Presentation delivered at ESADE, Barcelona, during the City as a Lab workshop by the World Bank.
White wonder, Work developed by Eva TschoppMansi Shah
White Wonder by Eva Tschopp
A tale about our culture around the use of fertilizers and pesticides visiting small farms around Ahmedabad in Matar and Shilaj.
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Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
1. Cultural Leadership
at Waag & DesignLab University of Twente
Frank Kresin - f.j.kresin@utwente.nl - @kresin
Managing Director DesignLab - Fellow Waag Society - Supervisory Board TETEM & V2_
2. Cultural Leadership
Cultural leadership is the act of leading the cultural sector. Like culture itself, it comes
from many different people and can be practised in many different ways. It concerns senior
managers and directors in subsidized cultural institutions; public officials developing and
implementing policy for the cultural sector; and a huge range of producers, innovators and
entrepreneurs in small companies, production houses and teams. In the cultural world,
nobody has a monopoly on leadership.
Leading the cultural sector is practised in two different ways. First, it concerns competently
managing the organisations of the cultural sector, ensuring that they are financially
viable, legal and with well-organised staff. Second, it means leading culture itself - making
work, productions and projects which show different ways of thinking, feeling and
experiencing the world - bringing dynamism to the economy and wider society.
British Council
3. Challenges
Cultural organisations are geared towards producing new ideas. It is their production of
these new ideas as performances, exhibitions, styles and sounds which makes them
cultural. Balancing this priority, with the need to run a financially sustainable organisation
and hopefully one that makes a positive difference to the world, is which gives cultural
leaders a unique set of challenges
• Defining value: never self-evident
• Working in networks: never alone
• Living dangerously: never repeat oneself
• Societal impact: never self-self-possessed
British Council
4. European Agenda
New European Agenda for Culture 2018
The European Agenda for Culture aims to “harness the full potential of
culture to help build a more inclusive and fairer Union, supporting innovation,
creativity and sustainable jobs and growth”. For this, the Agenda has three
strategic objectives:
1. Social dimension – Harnessing the power of culture and cultural
diversity for social cohesion and well-being.
2. Economic dimension – Supporting culture-based creativity in education
and innovation, and for jobs and growth.
3. External dimension - Strengthening international cultural relations.
20. Societal Impact
noun
/ˈɪmpakt/
1. the action of one object coming forcibly into
contact with another.
"there was the sound of a third impact"
2. a marked effect or influence.
“our regional measures have had a significant
impact on unemployment"
verb
/ɪmˈpakt/
1. come into forcible contact with another object.
"the shell impacted twenty yards away”
2. have a strong effect on someone or something.
"high interest rates have impacted on retail
spending"
21. relational
aesthetics*
users as
designers
code
=
culture
learning by
making
critical design
if you can’t open it,
you don’t own it
*a set of artistic practices which take as their
theoretical and practical point of departure the
whole of human relations and their social
context, rather than an independent and
private space
Nicholas Bourriaud
https://waag.org/en/about-us
22. Multiple Strategies for Impact
Society
Events
Teaching
Artistic
Research &
Development
Spin offs
Books Services
Lobby
23. Creative Research
Form - Context - Transformation
Users as Designers - https://waag.org/sites/waag/files/Publicaties/Users_as_Designers.pdf
24. Users as DesignersUsers as Designers - https://waag.org/sites/waag/files/Publicaties/Users_as_Designers.pdf
25. Science 2 Design 4 Society - https://www.slideshare.net/kresin/designlab-university-of-twente
37. Empowering Vision & Mission
Vision
DesignLab will realize new connections between university and society,
by linking academic research and education to societal issues and
challenges. We use creativity and interdisciplinarity to co-design
answers to societal questions, and to anticipate social implications of
technology during the process of innovation. By engaging students in
our work, we establish new connections between research and
education. By focusing on projects that are both scientifically
challenging and societally relevant, we open up new sources of impact,
and new sources of funding, combining private and public sources.
Mission
DesignLab will be the obvious place to go to for research and advice on
complex, interdisciplinary questions involving the interactions between
technology and society that require a creative and cross-disciplinary
approach. DesignLab will become a well-known and respected,
sustainable hub for Design Thinking for societal challenges. It is closely
aligned with Dutch, European and UN societal and sustainable
challenges and builds up a wide portfolio of projects, and a network of
talented and motivated researchers, designers and students.
38. Team Effort - Daniel Pink - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_About_What_Motivates_Us
42. Annual Budget
3,5 M euro
Local Government
Arts Funding
Creative Industries
& Arts Fund
National Research
& Arts Funding
EU Research
& Arts Funding
Training Fees
Specific Domain
Innovation Funding
Consultancy
Local Government
Innovation Funds
Waag Annual Financial Report (Dutch) - https://waag.org/sites/waag/files/2018-05/ANBI-Jaarverslag-2017.pdf
43. Risks
• Take your existence for granted
• Keep doing what you are good at
• Succeed in all your efforts
• Forget to build internal leadership capacity
• Don’t invest in your network
• Get carried away by content
• Engage in group thinking
• Don’t talk to your audience
58. Cultural Leadership
at Waag & DesignLab University of Twente
Frank Kresin - f.j.kresin@utwente.nl - @kresin
Managing Director DesignLab - Fellow Waag Society - Supervisory Board TETEM & V2_