Spring term 2011 has begun

And we have plunged into work as if Christmas Holidays had never happened. Marjo is going to be a prominent figure in CBM studies this term - in the first period she begins with her course Creative Producer on Wednesdays, and the Media and Gender course on Thursdays. Marjo is also coordinating the CBM Final thesis seminar. In the second period she will be teaching the courses History of Mass and Multimedia, and Cross-media project.

Taina is taking it easy, beginning the term with CBM Research Methods on Tuesdays, which is also directed to the VKM-students who don't speak Finnish. In the second period she'll teach the Medianarration course titled "Moving Metropolis" in collaboration with The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Otaniemi. And will do some project work in collaboration with Pia.

CBM students will also start thinking about their "Creative projects" (Industry Project/ Luovat projektit) - joint ventures with TuKKK students. Teachers can make some suggestions and mediate some commissions, but use your imagination and make a project, if you don't find one ready for the taking! This is a great opportunity to try your hand at something you've dreamed of! The kick-off is on Tuesday 18.1. at 13 - 16 in class 255.

We'll be having a feedback meeting with all CBM students Wed 19.1. at 14 - 15 in Ateljee. Niilo and Aapo are also collecting student feelings for Aalto University's "TEE - Teaching Evaluation Exercise".

And later in the Spring we shall check everybody's HOPS, personal study-plan - to see what you've done so far and what are your ideas about the rest of your studies now.

Have a nice, productive and thought-provoking term - and remember to take a break every now and then!

Application to CBM masters' program is open!

Creative Business Management masters' program

This pioneering cross-disciplinary international program offers the possibility to understand creative economy as a phenomenon that transgresses traditional economic thinking and to study management of creative processes through experimental projects. The cross-disciplinary studies include media management and theory of media culture offered by the department of Art and Media, and studies in economy and digital culture and cultural heritage offered by the University of Turku. Languages English and Finnish. 

Application period 3.1. - 28.2. 2011

For more info see:

MA application guide: http://www.taik.fi/en/opiskelu/haku_opiskelijaksi/hakuoppaat.html

Hakuopas: http://www.taik.fi/opiskelu/haku_opiskelijaksi/hakuoppaat/taiteen_maisteri.html

At the department you can contact

Nina Sjölund, Amanuensis
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Taina Rajanti, Head of the MA program
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Marjo Mäenpää, Professor in Media management
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Kick It Over Manifesto

Kick It Over

An international student movement to free the economics curriculum from its neoclassical straightjacket was launched last week at the University of California at Berkeley.

For its first action, students worldwide are being encouraged to post the following manifesto, preferably printed on brightly coloured paper, on the doors and bulletin boards of their univeristy’s economics department. See Tere Waden's Nuvatsia blog!

Kick It Over Manifesto
We, the undersigned, make this accusation: that you, the teachers of neoclassical economics and the students that you graduate, have perpetuated a gigantic fraud upon the world.

You claim to work in a pure science of formula and law, but yours is a social science, with all the fragility and uncertainty that this entails. We accuse you of pretending to be what you are not.

You hide in your offices, protected by your mathematical jargon, while in the real world, forests vanish, species perish and human lives are callously destroyed. We accuse you of gross negligence in the management of our planetary household.

You have known since its inception that one of your measures of economic progress, the Gross Domestic Product, is fundamentally flawed and incomplete, and yet you have allowed it to become a global standard, reported day in, day out in every form of media. We accuse you of recklessly projecting an illusion of progress.

You have done great harm, but your time is coming to a close. Your systems are crumbling, your flaws increasingly laid bare. An economic revolution has begun, as hopeful and determined as any in history. We will have our clash of economic paradigms, we will have our moment of truth, and out of each will come a new economics – open, holistic, human scale.

On campus after campus, we will chase you old goats out of power. Then, in the months and years that follow, we will begin the work of reprogramming your doomsday machine.

Available as a PDF file here

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."