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 ==== Improving Reality 2013 ====
-http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/improving-reality-2013
+  * http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/improving-reality-2013
+  * [[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ireality|#ireality]]
-[[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ireality|#ireality]]
 === notes/annotations/digressions ===
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-Technology and culture are intertwined. It's important to work with the
+Technology and culture are intertwined. It's important to work with the materiality of technology. It's important to investigate materials when designing digital and technological objects. Revealing the invisible side of algorithms, for example: how RFID or GPS inhabits space. Working with or understanding materials can give people a sense of agency.
-materiality of technology. It's important to investigate materials when
-designing digital and technological objects. Revealing the invisible
-side of algorithms, for example: how RFID or GPS inhabits space. Working
-with or understanding materials can give people a sense of agency.
-Designers should work communicatively. We need to develop new metaphors
+Designers should work communicatively. We need to develop new metaphors to understand how people understand technology.
-to understand how people understand technology.
 RFID as seamless enabler of frictionless capitalis
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   * Anne Balsamo. "Designing Culture"
   * Donald Schön. Designers have a reflective conversation with materials
-  * Ezio Manzini. material is the intersection between what is thinkable and
+  * Ezio Manzini. material is the intersection between what is thinkable and what's possible
-what's possible
   * Bruce Sterling. "User Stockholm Syndrome"
-  * Kirby. Labcoats in Holywood (on the relationship between cinema and
+  * Kirby. Labcoats in Holywood (on the relationship between cinema and technology)
-technology)
   * Frank and Lilian Gilbreth. Time and Motion studies. Light painting and ergonomics in 1914
   * S. Doll, C. Bartle: Immaterial (Ghost in the field)
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 Charismatic megaengineering similar to "charismatic megafauna"
-compare and contrast:
+compare and contrast: internet.org <-> info-ladies in Bangladesh
-{{internet.org <-> info-ladies in Bangladesh}}
+It's a question of 'appropriate' technology (fluid technology)
- -
-http://brck.com
-It's a question of 'appropriate' technology, {{fluid technology}}:
   * http://brck.com - 'internet in a box' project by Ushahidi
-  * Martin {{Jakubowski}}: global Village construction set:
+  * Martin Jakubowski - Global Village construction set http://opensourceecology.org
-opensourceecology.org
   * Zimbabwe Bush pump paper on appropriate tech.
   * Wikihouse
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 ===discussions===
 Putting people back into the equation: increasing literacy and transparency; engineering ethics, agency and access: revealing the big thing and giving people the agency to do something about it. What happens if they don't care? How do you get beyond not caring? We should be able to articulate alternatives better.
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 Revolution: in sheer numbers, but with the ability to dig down into individual stories.
-Open is a myth that should be cracked open (watch out for open but not
+Open is a myth that should be cracked open (watch out for open but not accessible).
-accessible).
 The 'good life' is not unattainable it is unmaimtaimable
 Ref anab Jain essay 're. Design fiction and macro engineering
 (bidirectional liquid democracy, recruit ppl to help inform/make decisions before delegated votes)