A presentation we gave at Cat Meeting III at Centre Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona http://web.mac.com/gerardvilar/CATmeetings/Bienvenida.html

1. From Lab to Expo
Hypermedia and low tech
Two sides of the participatory matter coin
Ramon Sangüesa & Irene Lapuente
UPC/co-creating-cultures
III CATMeeting
Centre Arts Santa Mònica, BCN, May 4-5, 2011

2. Outline
• Media, “hyper” and otherwise
• Possibilities for design
• Examples
• Conclusions

3. Hypermedia?
Digital Code
Digital Media
Digital Matter
IoThings
Wetware

4. Affordances
Plasticity
matter as code
code as matter
media as matter
Connectivity
the people dimension

5. Participation
Different goals, roles
Arnstein’s Ladder
Read, Write,
Build, Lead Building

6. Designing
processes
Cultural prototyping
Media and low tech materials
The exhibition as
a common(s) project

7. Traditional
user-centric process
Empathy Define Ideate Prototype Test
• Design research
• Iterative
• Divergent and convergent thinking
• Designers as facilitators

8. Example I
“From contemplation to participation and beyond”

9. Working
together offline
From collage to concept
prototype

10. Working
together offline
From concept prototype
to design brief

11. Working
together online
From design brief
to virtual prototype

12. Online/Offline
Selecting the design

13. Results and insights
• Virtual space objects as a commons
• Importance of cultural approach
• Reconciling methods online and offline
• Opening and closing
• Methods are plastic: recombine them!

14. Example II
Prototyping with media content

15. Step one:
video as clay
Call for participation
Contributory process
Collaborative, not competitive
Raw material for analysis

16. Step two:
analysis
Text
Content
Discourse
Relations

17. Step 3: data art?
Videos and analysis data as
“design brief”
Call to artists

18. Step 4: building
An exhibition in Arts Santa
Monica of the resulting process

19. Empathy Define Ideate Prototype Test
On On
Off Off
On On
Off Off

20. Research
Questions
Recursivity and fractality of user-designed systems
Users: Wilkie user assemblages
Levels of reflectivity: Metadesign
Virtualization of design collaboration (NSF,
Parsons School of Design)

21. Some references
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• Sanders, E.; Simons, G. A (2010). A social vision for value co-
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cat=5
• Taxén, G.. Introducing Participatory Design in Museums. Report
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• Thomas Erickson, Susan Herring, and Warren Sack. (2002).
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• Metavid: http://metavid.org/wiki/MetaVidWiki
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• Fiscyer, G. Metadesgn
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22. Thanks!
http://co-creating-cultures
ramonsang@gmail.com

23. Photo Credits
• mivochen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/
mivochen/1456184625/
• oskay: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/
3365027346/
• elle carpenter
• derivart