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Subject: [i-announce@ischool] Design Futures talk, April 13: Parul Vora
(Wikimedia Foundation) - Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement
From: "Elizabeth Goodman" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, April 11, 2011 1:05 pm
To: [email protected]
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"Berkeley Institute of Design Lab" <[email protected]>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">Wednesday April 13<br>
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6:00 - 7:30 pm
<p>Parul Vora, <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home";
target="_blank">Wikimedia Foundation</a> and <a
href="http://www.thelaboratorium.com/index2.html";
target="_blank">The Laboratorium</a><br>
<i>Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement</i></p>
<p>People don’t always do what’s profitable, they also do
what’s
fun. People don’t always do what serves their self-interests,
they
also do what is collectively right and good. People aren’t
always
rational and predictable, sometimes they are novel and creative.
This talk presents studies, artworks, and projects that embrace
these human motivations to be social, participatory, and
collaborative, including Wikipedia, a practical and functioning
example of the power of human cooperation and collective action.
Wikipedia substantiates our idealism, but it’s not without issue
and it’s mission demands the projects’ perpetual
evolution. This
talk will also present some of the challenges that Wikipedia faces
to keep up in the ecosystem of online engagement it helped create.
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<p>Parul Vora is a Designer, Researcher, Technologist, User
Experience Specialist, Hacker, and Interactive Artist. She has
studied at UC Berkeley, Columbia, the MIT Media Lab, the Stanford
d.school, at home, in the shop, and out of doors. Her work
involves the study, exploration, and creation of human
participation and connectedness as mediated by technology. She is
currently and researcher and design strategist at the Wikimedia
Foundation and has recently worked at yhaus (the Design Innovation
Team at Yahoo!), Y!RB (Yahoo Research Berkeley), and Urban
Atmospheres. She also has a particular dispostion for robots,
bicycles, polaroid cameras, absurdist humor, halloween, lo-fi
music, michel gondry movies, and her husband Jeff. She begins most
conversations with “Wouldn’t it be cool
if……?” and ends them with
“Why not?”<br>
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line-height: 18px;" align="justify">Talks located at
Berkeley Center for New Media Commons,<br>
340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe (<a
href="http://tinyurl.com/bcnmcommons";>map</a>)<br>
UC Berkeley</p>
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<small><b>News</b><br>
<a
href="http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/dbox/?page_id=62";>Video
of Chris Hecker's talk on game design</a> uploaded.
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<small>Please see <a
href="http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/dbox/";>http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/dbox/</a>
for a full schedule of Spring 2011 events. d.box is a media
and design-research workshop that supports UC Berkeley
designers, scientists, and artists. It is a space for both
producing and critically engaging with new media and design
through discussions, hands-on workshops, and design-research
projects. For questions and comments please write to us
at: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>.
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