--------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [i-announce@ischool] Design Futures talk, April 13: Parul Vora (Wikimedia Foundation) - Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement From: "Elizabeth Goodman" egoodman@ischool.berkeley.edu Date: Mon, April 11, 2011 1:05 pm To: design-events@ischool.berkeley.edu i-announce@ischool.berkeley.edu "Berkeley Institute of Design Lab" bid-lab@lists.berkeley.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div style="margin: 0px;">Wednesday April 13<br> </div> 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. </p> <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> <br> </p> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <div style="margin: 0px;"> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; text-align: justify; 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> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; text-align: justify; line-height: 18px;" align="justify">------------------------------<br> <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. </small><br> ------------------------------</p> </div> <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:dbox@ischool.berkeley.edu">dbox@ischool.berkeley.edu</a>. </small> </div> </div> <br> </div> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- ********************************** PhD candidate School of Information University of California, Berkeley <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~egoodman">www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~egoodman</a> ********************************** </pre> </body> </html>
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