Unge Urbane Uttrykk

The People's Smart Sculpture: Oslo sub-project

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The best practice study from the People’s smart sculpture project is completed and released!

Short abstract

Over the last 4 years the EU-project "The People's Smart Sculpture - PS2" has fostered new and innovative approaches on the participative urban re-design and urban development. PS2 took place in 11 subprojects in 12 European cities in 8 countries and used social art and activism as well as digital tools and methodologies. The results have been outstanding: PS2 promoted 1,077 artists/creators, implemented 903 creative activities, 63 performances and 70 exhibitions. It provided 3,168 learning experiences for 7,734 individuals and 535 organizations, reaching an audience of over 2 Million people world wide. We would like to share our experiences with you. The attached PS2 Project Best Practice Study eBook hopefully inspires you for your own projects and gives you an overview of the PS2 Project.

Link to the best practice study from the People’s smart scuplture project:

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(PDF) BEST PRACTICE STUDY 2014-2018 THE PEOPLE'S SMART SCULPTURE PS2 BEST PRACTICE STUDY

PDF | Over the last 4 years the EU-project "The People's Smart Sculpture - PS2" has fostered new and innovative approaches on the participat

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Photos from Emigrate to Axzaylia?, a critical design student project from INF2260, being exhibited at Sentralen. 

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Public talk and workshop with students with Prof. Bill Gaver, Professor of Design, Co-Director of the Interaction Research Studio, Goldsmiths University, London. 

Interesting and inspirational discussions about practice based research, research through design and ambiguity in design. Prof. Bill Gaver’s research on design-led methodologies and innovative technologies for everyday life led him to develop an internationally recognised studio bringing the skills of designers together with expertise in ubiquitous computing and sociology. With the Studio, he has developed approaches to design ranging from Cultural Probes to the use of documentary film to help assess people’s experience with designs, and pursued conceptual work on topics such as ambiguity, interpretation and design-led research. These innovations have been driven by the design work that is at the heart of the Studio’s work, which centres around the production of highly-finished prototypes that have been deployed for long-term field trials and exhibited internationally at venues such as the V&A Museum, Tate Britain, and New York’s MOMA. 

https://www.gold.ac.uk/design/staff/gaver/

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Sumit Pandey presenting a pictorial paper discussing the design process behind Hearsay at Nordes 2017 in Oslo. The pictorial paper was authored jointly by him and Prof. Alma Culén. 

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Open exhibit and presentation by students of the University of Oslo exploring machine participation and artificial intelligence as a part of a studio course. 

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Studio images of Eyespy TV, an exploration of machine participation by Sumit Pandey. Eye-spy stitches different unsecured and potentially public cctv camera feeds from around the globe and interprets them in real time using the #neuraltalk algorithm by Andrej Karpathy; all the while really trying to interpret you. Build with openframeworks and @adskfusion360-blog.

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Workshop exploring after effects for projection mapping with students from the University of Oslo and ElektroMoon Vision, from Poland.

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Two day workshop with 12 European artists on the Cultures of Machine Participation at the University of Oslo. Eyespy TV, an exploration of machine participation in domestic settings by Sumit Pandey, was also exhibited here followed by hands on exercises and explorations by artists in 3 groups.

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Temporalities and Spaces for Engagement in Design Activities - workshop and presentation by Prof. Alma Culén at NordiCHI 2016. A full day workshop spent with designers and researchers brainstorming and discussing the temporal aspects of designerly engagement at Gothenburg, Sweden. Read more at http://www.nordichi2016.org/program/workshops/

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Workshop Call: The Cultures of Machine Participation

Technological products are rapidly becoming labelled with buzzwords like 'smart', 'intelligent' and 'networked'. Largely, these devices utilize black-boxed technological infrastructures to create solutions largely focused on presumed problems of efficiency in different contexts. Moreover, these devices tend to take 'futuristic' and 'mystical' forms with most of the interface being offloaded to apps and voice based interfaces. 

The research group for the design of information systems (DESIGN) at the University of Oslo (UiO) invites up to 10 European artists and designers for a 2-day workshop on the 3rd and 4th of April 2017 on 'The Cultures of Machine Participation'. Rather than taking a solution centric approach to the use of these 'mystical' technologies, we invite the use of alternative and exploratory strategies that help re-imagine the role and position of intelligent and connected technologies in our daily lives. These strategies should build on the artist/designer's experience and approach and can range from artistic exploration to design fiction and speculative design. In the workshop, we would share past experiences and approaches of working with emerging technologies and the role of design and art in such scenarios. Besides being a platform to facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas between artists and designers, we also hope to be able to collaborate and develop low-fidelity concept proposals situated in narratives in re-imagined realities. About the DESIGN group The DESIGN group at UiO does research on how technology is constructed and used, focusing on the interaction between the technology, society and culture. We are interested in research through design and how speculative design can create alternative possibilities in research and design inquiry. The workshop would take place at the GeminiUX lab at the Department of Informatics and the workshop outcome would be shared on both Norwegian and European public platforms along with our project's social media channels. Interested artists/designers/researchers are asked to send the following materials to: [email protected] Biography (up to 500 words) Artist's statement (up to 500 words) Portfolio – images, video and/or audio and short descriptions of previous works (up to 5 pieces) (online/PDF) Deadline for submitting applications: February 25th 2017. All the proposals will be assessed by the selection committee comprised of members of the DESIGN group. The selected participants will be provided with accommodation, travel costs and per diem for the duration of the workshop. We will also provide an artist grant of 4150 NOK. For more information, please contact Alma and Sumit: Alma Leora Culén and Sumit Pandey University of Oslo Subject: The Cultures of Machine Participation - PS2 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] This program is a part of the Norwegian sub-project, 'Young Urban Expressions', of the Creative Europe project, The people's smart sculpture. www.facebook.com/ThePeoplesSmartSculpture/ youngexpressions.no smartsculpture.eu

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Eye-spy being exhibited at grassomania-8 in Gdansk!

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Aftermovie from the #Share Infinity Oslo event at the University of Oslo, Department of Informatics. Please share!

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Public exhibit of explorations on the nature of note taking and sketching and responding to the question: "what is a book?"

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Eye-spy: a speculative design interactive installation on AI, machine interpretation and surveillance along with other student explorations on the nature of notebooks being exhibited as a part of dagen@ifi : one of UIOs largest student festivals

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Discussing forgotten places, urban living and art at the GGM in Gdansk.

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Concept proposal for hearsay: a speculative design project imagining the nature of machine involvement in voice activated AI systems

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Idémyldring! I dag har vi sett litt på hva som inspirerer oss og hva som er gøy med spill✨

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Concept production images from the interactive game being designed for citykids!