13.7.10

Ourcollnnectiveminds @ wikimania 2010: past; present and futur of wikimania.

Ourcollnnectiveminds @ wikisym 2010: What are wikis made of ?

For it's 3rd edition, Ourcollnnectiveminds were set up at Gdansk, Poland, for the participants to WikiSym 2010.We decided to transform the installation into a tetrahedron, which is, just like wikis, the simpliest stable structure.
We also added small sub-tetrahedron in order to play with different conceptual spaces.

Participants were asked to answer this question:

What are wikis made of ?
The installation started with 3 concepts:
  • wikis (in the top tetrahedron)
  • community (in one of the basis tetrahedron)
  • software (in an other basis one).
  • the third basis tetrahedron was left empty, as a suggestion for immediate edition.
The first participants started to ask about what should be in this small space.If wikis are made of community and software, what is the third element ?
After some time, some small attempts... mostly dealing with Action related concepts as a proposition. Then people (including us) would start to edit these first contributions.



10.4.10

Bots of paper, discussions open-air

What is a cube of bamboo doing in the garden, the hall through which the participants pass in their way in and out of the auditorium to the conference WikiWars, Critical Point of View? What are pieces of yellow and orange thick paper flowing in the wind? What are the messages there, what is the purpose, the engagement, the vision?

Bringing “Our Coll/nn/ective Mind: Critics & the WikiWay” to the WikiWars conference was a way to raise many issues related to wikis, to collaboration, to creativity, a way to engage in the discussion by investigating the particularities of wikis and interactions between participants, concepts and discussions.