Hi Pedro, You bring up a very stimulating and timely topic. I think this is probably a good group to take on the question of community participation and how technologies shape what types of participation are possible/encouraged/accepted/healthy etc.
When I was at a conference in Italy last year I did a brief ethnographic exploration into the topic: http://mobilecommunitydesign.com/2006/08/non-digital-public-authoring.html Please feel to respond to that post, or expand on your original question. Cheers, Jeff On 10/14/07, Pedro Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a retired graffiti writer, pioneer of this type of manifestation > in Lisbon, Portugal, at the same time that I've graduated in > communication design (1999). > > After graduation and one year in Prague I have quitted practicing, the > mercantilist society that we live in take over graffiti in Lisbon, > cans clothes even mass media adopted the language, and the dream of 10 > young creative minds (that I was one) was drown by the incontrollable > mass of new writers that without any criteria made many mistakes > transforming Lisbon as many other cities full of visual noise that > have plasticity but associated to the drama in some sort of Nietzsche > way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche > > Well I've searched answers in a Urban design PhD, in Barcelona, and in > a Master course in Rome about the theme of participation, trying to > find continuously answers to the problem created in my mind that > relates the will of participation of a teenager and the absence of > opportunities for doing something visible, collectively apprehensible, > by partners and competitors, growing this way a true relation with > places and society, always protected by anonymity. > > My (very resumed) life history enplaned here have the purpose of > putting in focus a suggestion of relation, do you see some or in fact > I'm in the wrong discussion list? > > Best regards > sevenpedro( at )gmail.com > userdesign.org > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > -- Thanks, Jeff ________________________________________________________________________________ Jeff Axup, Ph.D. Principal Consultant, Mobile Community Design Consulting, San Diego Research: Mobile Group Research Methods, Social Networks, Group Usability E-mail: axup <at> userdesign.com Blog: http://mobilecommunitydesign.com Moblog: http://memeaddict.blogspot.com "Designers mine the raw bits of tomorrow. They shape them for the present day." - Bruce Sterling ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
