Co-creation, co-governance and peer-to-peer production of public services

Seminar at Taik Helsinki Friday 22 of October 2010. 9 - 16.

Co-creation, co-governance and peer-to-peer production of public services SIG
The co-p2p special interest group initiative aims to increase stakeholders understanding of the processes, logic’s and incentives that can make possible co-creation, co-governance and peer-to-peer production of public services, as well as chart the limits and implications of these approaches (social,economic, political, technical and cultural dimensions). The members represent different expertise with in the Aalto University in order to provide a multidisciplinary and multifaceted view to these developments.

Focus:
1) The need for a multidisciplinary perspective towards the challenges and opportunities that exist in designing and developing services for participatory modes of governance (including co-creation and peer-to-peer aspects).
2) The mapping of the constellation of new technologies and actors involved in citizen-sensitive public service creation and delivery, and their current and emerging roles.
3) Understanding and proposing new service ecosystem configurations (technological and social) and designs to address the challenges and circumstances identified.

More info on co-p2p webpages, including online registration for the seminar.

Michel Bauwens, link to an audio of the lecture

If you're interested, listen to the founder of P2P Foundation telling about how present economical model has some 20 years left to torture us before giving way to a way more productive form, "commons" - free and open cooperation, production out of interest, without thought of profit. Link here! Thanks to Totuusradio for providing this.

Tuntumaa exhibition

Tuntumaa is an art exhibition designed for all by Marika Leinonen-Vainio, 11.9. - 3.10 in Porin Puuvillan lankavärjäämö.


Wednesdays to Fridays 12 - 18
Saturdays and Sundays 11 - 16.


Be sure to visit!

Michael Bauwens in Tampere 21th of September

If anybody would happen to have the time to visit Tampere on Tuesday September 21th, you must not miss Michael Bauwen's lecture "The Commons and the P2P paradigm". The lecture will be held in lecture room A4 in the main building of Tampere University.

The Facebook invite includes a link to a talk by Michael Bauwens.

See also the group wikiworld - education and commons, "which is a project gathering together learning and research on the commons, especially in the context of education, knowledge creation and social being.

The Internet has introduced many people to the world of peer-to-peer practices, including free and open source software, the Wikipedia and other wikis, Open Access science, data and various forms of peer production. This implies a multitude of interesting questions: what is the commons and what are the forms of the peer-to-peer paradigm? What are the theoretical implications of these phenomena, and where can the peer-to-peer mode be applied? How can, for instance, learning and research be organized as p2p activities? How can the educational commons be enlarged? The EDC project organizes and brings together courses, seminars and research on these questions. There are several ways to get involved."

Mustekala 39: Taide ja talous - Art and Economy

Unfortunately for non-Finnish speakers, only in Finnish, the foremost publication on and around art in Finland, the online journal Mustekala. The latest issue Taide ja Talous has several articles on the topic (Art and Economy). Check it out!

Introduction: "Voiko taidetta ja taloutta sekoittaa vai täytyykö ne pitää tiukasti erillään? Miten käy talouden taikinan kun se kasvaa rajatta? Entä miten käy kun taide lähtee ulos laitoksista ja sekaantuu arkielämän tilanteisiin? Näitä mustekala vatkaa ja leipoo tässä numerossa. Samalla mustekala esittelee ensimmäisenä Suomessa Birgit Jürgenssenin, itävaltalaisen feministitaiteilijan 1970-luvulta."

Traveling blog for the department

This is to announce the creation of a traveling blog for the department. Traveling department is meant for teachers, students, researchers, personnel, doctoral students to give short reports of their travels connected to work, study, conferences, courses, exhibitions etc.

Mail a few lines and preferably some photos to Taina: trajanti@gmail.com, and she will put your story on the blog.

The first story is there, telling about Annu's and Taina's journey to give papers at the 18th International Congress in Aesthetics in Beijing, and visit the Expo in Shanghai 7. - 19.8.2010.

Welcome new and old CBM students to academic year 2010-2011!

We are starting the second year of CBM master program, and kicking off with 14 new CBM students and 16 new VKM students. We have already been introduced to an astonishing range of talent and skills - and we'll hear more about each student when Thu 26th and Fri 27th people will be showing a sample of their portfolios in the afternoons in Ateljee.

Next week we'll also do a walk in Creative Pori Tue 31th, stream on the opening festivities of Aalto in Helsinki Wed 1th, see and hear about last year's projects on the department demoday Rajauksia 2.9. 13 onwards; and take a bus to visit School of Art and Design in Helsinki early in the morning of Friday 3th.