[p2p-research] open source urbanism, query

[Michel Bauwens]

Thanks, Eric, it will be published here at
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/eric-hunting-on-the-open-source-urbanism-workshop-at-wintercamp/2009/03/12

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Eric Hunting <erichunting at gmail.com> wrote:

> Winter Camp is an annual conference event by the Institute of Network
> Cultures which this year was conducted in Amsterdam from the third to the
> seventh of March. One of those interesting intellectual gatherings where the
> arts, design, sociology, philosophy, and technology converge in a Gazpacho
> of sophisticated open exchange which, for some reason, only ever seem to
> appear today in the likes of the Netherlands and its immediate neighbors.
> This Winter Camp event featured a loose organization of artists calling
> themselves MyCreativity whose first-day topic for discussions and
> presentations was Open Source Urbanism. A run-down of that day's
> presentations can be seen in this article from the Winter Camp 09 web site;
>
>
> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/wintercamp/2009/03/05/mycreativity-open-source-urbanism/
>
> This was certainly one of those events this author has only dreamed of
> being involved in and it's really encouraging to see such a random selection
> of creative people apparently who all seem to 'get' the nascent but key
> cultural changes now emerging in western society regarding our built habitat
> and our rights in it. Though focused largely on the issues concerning
> artists/designers and their participation and survival in a commercialized
> and politicized urban ecology, it is interesting to see a cognizance of the
> concept of an Open Source Urbanization where the urban habitat should exist
> as an open community-participatory construct and not a 'product' of distant
> econopolitical power interests. Particularly interesting to this author was
> the discussion of reconsidering Urban Utopianism of the early and mid 20th
> century. Once again we see reference to the work of Constance Nieuwenhuys
> and the recent convergence of architectural language with the language of
> information technology and a rediscovery by the contemporary design
> community of past utopian thought through the influence of that new digital
> culture.
>
> Though the actual participants in this event seemed, from the articles on
> Winter Camp 09, to be bothered by a lack of coherence in their own exchange,
> this author saw in these reports a very clear expression of emerging
> Post-Industrial culture here, even if the participants did not refer to
> that. To paraphrase the late Terence McKenna, one can sense the roiling of
> the surface of the pond hinting at the imminent emergence of some protean
> form. If only such sophisticated venues of exchange were more widespread so
> as to coax things toward critical mass. But then, this may be a phenomenon
> today peculiar to the creative and intellectual cultures of contemporary
> Europe, as such sophisticated socialization and social-networking seems
> remarkably rare elsewhere.
>
> Eric Hunting
> erichunting at gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
>
>> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/wintercamp/2009/03/05/mycreativity-open-source-urbanism/
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> I'm wondering if you could blog about the above for us?
>>
>> Michel
>>
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