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Platform as Method: Strategies for Counter-Cartographic Research in Beijing, Ningbo and Shanghai
Seminar: Laboratory on Urban Research, http://urbanresearchlab.net/
Presenters: Ned Rossiter
Date: Sunday 25 April, 2010
Time: 2-4pm
Fee: free
Abstract
Platforms organize. They bring bodies and brains into relation. While they require highly distributed formats of digital communication and translation, platforms must connect with off-line worlds. Practices of collaborative constitution hold a generative capacity that invent new institutional forms. When multiplied across time and space, platforms connect seemingly disparate events along circuits of experience and experimentation. The work of platforms at once tests and produces concepts. Platforms address contingency and movements as constitutive methods of analysis and organization.
This paper asks how the organization of platforms can serve as a research tool and method for transcultural mapping in urban settings. Taking examples from urban research projects in Beijing, Ningbo and Shanghai, the paper investigates how the city becomes the site of a research platform that combines online and offline methods to gather researchers from across the world and bring them into collaborative relation with local participants through workshops, site visits, symposia, exhibitions, mailing lists, blogs and publishing. The aim is to flee the data-mined, self-referential universe of social networking sites by building a multilingual environment for collaborative invention and the common production of knowledge.
Bio
Ned Rossiter is an Australian media theorist and Associate Professor of Network Cultures, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006) and co-editor of numerous volumes, including (with Geert Lovink) MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries (2007).
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以平台为方法：在北京，宁波和上海反制图研究的策略
研讨会：城市研究实验室http://urbanresearchlab.net/
主讲人: Ned Rossiter
日期：2010年4月25日 周日
时间：下午2点-4点
费用:免费
简介
平台组织。他们联系着机构团体和智力因素。然而，他们需要数字化通讯和翻译的高度分布，平台必须连接着离线的世界。协作性章程的实践含有一种创造新体制形式的生成能力。当平台的增多穿越时间和空间，平台连接着经验和实验，这两条看似背道而驰的事件的线路。当下平台的工作测验和产生着概念。平台将偶然发生的事件和运动比作分析和组织的构成方法。
这份报告提出平台机构作为调研工具和方法，如何服务于在城市环境中进行的绘测工作。以在北京，宁波和上海的城市研究课题为例，这份报告调查了城市是如何成为研究平台的场所，这个场所结合了联机和脱机的方法，将全球的研究者聚集在一起，和当地的参与者形成涉及工作车间、实地考察、专题研讨会、公开展览，邮件列表，博客，出版的合作关系。报告旨在通过为合作发明和知识的共同生产建立一个多语言的环境，远离数据开采和自我参照的社会网络站点宇宙。
主讲人介绍
Ned Rossiter是澳大利亚的一位媒体理论家，中国宁波诺丁汉大学网络文化学副教授以及澳大利亚悉尼西部大学文化调研中心的兼职高级研究员。他是《Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions》（2006）的作者。他与Geert Lovink合作编辑了《MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries》（2007）
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