[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [i-announce at ischool] Design Futures talk, April 13: Parul Vora (Wikimedia Foundation) - Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement]

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Subject: [i-announce at ischool] Design Futures talk, April 13: Parul Vora
(Wikimedia Foundation) - Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement
From:    "Elizabeth Goodman" <egoodman at ischool.berkeley.edu>
Date:    Mon, April 11, 2011 1:05 pm
To:      design-events at ischool.berkeley.edu
         i-announce at ischool.berkeley.edu
         "Berkeley Institute of Design Lab" <bid-lab at lists.berkeley.edu>
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    <div style="margin: 0px;">Wednesday April 13<br>
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    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>
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            <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>
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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>
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          <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 at ischool.berkeley.edu">dbox at ischool.berkeley.edu</a>.
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