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Agenda

Activities

Lit Review:

  • on instrumentation. E.g. Agarose gel electrophoresis which is instrumentation or a method or openwetware?
  • Finishing up Background v1. Goal is to finish Emergence by end of the week so that Background, Methods, and Emergence v1 will be ready for review. Up next, State-of-the-Art categories v1

Other research

  • early hardware documentation archive databases
  • read: Raasch, et al. (2009) On the Open Design of Tangible Goods. A case study approach in understanding how design processes differed from OSS design to OSH design. After a selection process, the researchers decided to observe and study six OSH peojcts and their communities of developers and users "over a 10-week period reading triggering email list discussions, chat conversations, and forum entries." This also included 3-6 in-depth interviews per case in the study. Findings were categorized in to the actors' skillset and characteristics, the artefacts modularity and complexity, the transition from digital to physical, and the openness of all aspects from development to the end product(s).
  • started to read: Mies, et al. (2020) Development of OSH in Online Communities: Investigating Requirements for Groupware
  • watched/listened to Nancy Baym - New Media, New Work, and the New Call to Intimacy book talk. It was about the music industry and how musicians have adapted to the social media landscape in order to survive as laborers in the music industry and how social media and changed the musician/performer relationship with the audience/fan.
    • Made me think about how (1) labor in open source and what that means to the various models of labor in tech/open source (see book s recommended by Baym). The labor input, output, and value differs between OSH and OSS. (2) how OSH and the sharing platforms broke d own the barrier of intangible goods from corporations and made it more intimate and personal (e.g. musicians closer to fans).
  • is this osh? Scientists Just Released a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine Under a Creative Commons License
  • new book, could be of interest: Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, by Nadia Eghbal. If anything, her newsletters are v good
  • What can I do to start preparing for research project proposal?

Other questions

  • Interesting fall course: INSC 598 - Civic Media Co-Design Studio Instructor: Chris Coward (with Eric Gordon, Visiting Professor, MIT) The Civic Media Codesign Studio is a project-based studio course in collaborative design of civic media. Students work with a range of organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world community needs. Covers theory and practice of codesign, including methods for community participation in iterative stages of project ideation, design, pro totyping, testing, launch, and stewardship. This semester, the course will focus on building systems of collaboration between municipal government and local care networks to facil itate effective response to crisis. Working with organizations in Boston and Seattle that have struggled to coordinate their immediate response to COVID-19, the class will explore novel human and technical systems for more resilient cities.

In response to the ongoing meta-systemic shock of the global COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to better align the strategic outreach and formal information dissemination activit ies of municipal governments with citizen-led cooperative groups focused on local distribution of goods and services, or what we’ll call networks of care. Latent community-based n etworks of care coalesce in response to shocks, boosting community resilience by coordinating the provision of services and goods, as well as open up effective alternative communi cation routes. Increasingly these informal groups are coordinated and sustained through WhatsApp, Facebook, NextDoor and a variety of other digital and non-digital platforms. Ofte n, such networks are independent from government, sometimes because the public sector has failed to care for historically underserved communities, such as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and peo ple with disabilities (Tronto, 2013).

This class will explore novel tools and processes that can enable networks of care to effectively collaborate with top-down, centralized, governmental COVID-19 responses. We will work with care networks, public libraries, and municipal government in Boston to codesign outcomes. The outcomes we will explore will ideally be flexible to a variety of disasters and crises, and usable in less extreme contexts to build resilience to future pandemics or other crisis events. We will explore privacy protections and data formats, as well as d ata literacy, collection, storage, cleaning, analysis, visualization, use, and deletion. Ultimately, the goal of the class is to reimagine how municipal government can more effec tively partner with communities to create transformative policy and service provision.

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