Most of the sessions are accompanied by a reading list. Usually 2-4 obligatory articles and some suggested additional readings. We will be updating the list here, check it before each session.
Participants should: 1) read before each session ALL the obligatory articles 2) Write a summary of (1) ONE of them. Which article to write a summary of will be decided in class. Summaries should be no longer than 1 A4, however, they should be longer than 2 paragraphs. Summaries should be ready the session’s previous Friday morning.
14.10 General intro to the course
- Evers A (n.d) The Third Sector, a short introduction (the EMES Network)
http://www.emes.net/about-us/focus-areas/third-sector/ - Deuze, M. (2006). Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture. In: The Information Society 22(2), pp.63-75.
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/3200/Deuze%20Digital%20Culture%202006.pdf?sequence=1 - Botero, A., Paterson, A. G., & Saad-Sulonen, J. (2012). Introduction Towards Peer-production in Public Services: cases from Finland. Helsinki, Finland: Aalto University CO 15, School of Art, Design and Architecture.
Available from: http://co-p2p.mlog.taik.fi/files/2012/06/p2p-public-services-finland-2012.pdf
Additional suggested readings:
- Castells, M. 2007. “Communication, power and counter-power in the network society.” International Journal of Communication 1(1):238–266. http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/download/46/35
- Engeström, Y. (2009). Wildfire Activities: New Patterns of Mobility and Learning. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 1(2).
http://www.helsinki.fi/cradle/documents/Engestrom%20Publ/Wildfire%20activities%20paper.pdf
21.10 Participation, Collaboration and Engagement in Design and Research for New Media
- Fischer, G. (2011). Understanding, fostering, and supporting cultures of participation. interactions, 18(3), 42–53. doi:10.1145/1962438.1962450.
- http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/gerhard/papers/2011/interactions-coverstory.pdf
- Marttila, S., & Botero, A. (2013). The “Openness Turn” in Co-Design. From Usability, Sociability and Designability Towards Openness. In Co-create 2013, the boundary-crossing conference on Co-design in Innovation (pp. 99–110). Espoo, Finland: Aalto University.(PDF of the article marttila-botero-cocreate.pdf)
- Dourish P (2010). HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-10. DOI=10.1145/1858171.1858173 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1858171.1858173 (You need to be logged in Aalto network to get access) or go here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.174.4879&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Additional suggested reading:
- Botero, A. (2013). Expanding design space(s) – Design in communal endeavors (Doctoral Dissertation). Helsinki: Aalto University. PDF Available: ARTS bookstore
- Saad-Sulonen, J., Botero, A. & Kuutti, K. (2012). A long-term strategy for designing (in) the wild: lessons from the Urban Mediator and traffic planning in Helsinki. In Proceedings of DIS’12 Designing Interactive Systems (pp.166–175). New York: ACM. (PDF of the article Saad-Sulonen_Botero_Kuutti_AuthorVersion)
- Sanders, E. B.-N., Brandt, E., & Binder, T. (2010). A Framework for Organizing the Tools and Techniques of Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference (pp. 195–198). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1900441.1900476
- Mulgan, G., Caulier-Grice, J., & Murray, R. (2010). The Open Book of Social Innovation. United Kingdom: Nesta and The Young Foundation. Available online: http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/assets/features/the_open_book_of_social_innovation
28.10 Is this the Third Sector or what? Self organization and the semi-formal
- Blyth, S., & Kimbell, L. (2011). Design Thinking and the Big Society: From solving personal troubles to designing social problems. London, UK: Actant and Taylor & Haig. Available: http://www.taylorhaig.co.uk/assets/taylorhaig_designthinkingandthebigsociety.pdf
- Seppälä P (2012) Tiny social movements: Experiences of social media based co-creation. In Botero A, Paterson AG and Saad-Sulonen J (eds.) (2012) Towards Peer Production in Public Services: Cases from Finland, pp 62-75. Available online http://co-p2p.mlog.taik.fi/book-2012/
- Jarenko, K. (2013). The Local co-governance approach in the Herttoniemi neighbourhood as a deliberative system. In L. Horelli (ed.), New Approaches to urban planning: a challenge from the (g)local community. pp-45-64. Helsinki: Aalto University. https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/10244/isbn9789526051918.pdf
Additional suggested readings:
- Horelli, L., Saad-Sulonen, J., Wallin, S., & Botero, A. (2013) When self-organization and urban governance intersect: Two cases from Helsinki. Paper presented at the Using ICT, Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Foster Self-Organisation in Urban and Neighbourhood Governance conference, Delft, The Netherlands. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/DelftPaper
- Pestoff, V. (2012). Innovations in public services: Co-production and new public governance in Europe. In A. Botero, A G. Paterson, Saad-Sulonen, J. (Eds), Towards Peer Production in Public Services: Cases From Finland. Aalto University Publication Series Crossover 15/2012, (pp.13–33). Helsinki: Aalto University. Retrieved from http://co-p2p.mlog.taik.fi/files/2012/06/p2p-public-services-finland-2012.pdf
4.11Bottom up, top down and in-between: Making, Hacking, Doing and Influencing in Helsinki.
- Houtbeckers E (2013) Bricolage in the everyday life of Hub Helsinki. In Kostilainen H & Pättiniemi P (Eds.): Avauksia yhteiskunnallisen yritystoiminnan tutkimukseen, 2013. FinSern1. Available online: http://www.academia.edu/3215771/Bricolage_in_the_everyday_life_of_Hub_Helsinki
- Maxigas (2012). Hacklabs and Hackerspaces – Tracing two genealogies. The Journal of Peer Production (JoPP), 0(2). Available: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/hacklabs-and-hackerspaces/
- Tester, J. (2013) Citizens will make the future of cities. In the Information Daily.com. http://www.theinformationdaily.com/2013/06/13/citizens-will-make-the-future-of-cities AND Institute for the Future (2008) The future of making. http://www.iftf.org/uploads/media/SR-1154%20TH%202008%20Maker%20Map.pdf
Additional suggested readings:
- Hernberg, H. (Ed.). (2012). Helsinki beyond dreams: Actions towards a creative and sustainable hometown. Helsinki, Finland: Urban Dream Management.
- Houghton, K., Foth, M., & Miller, E. (2013). The Continuing Relevance of the Library as a Third Place for Users and Non-Users of IT: The Case of Canada Bay. Australian Library Journal, 62(1), 27-39. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/56428/1/ALJ_Feb_2013_Houghton_Foth_Miller.pdf
- Negroponte, N. (1995). Being Digital. Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton.
- Rheingold, H. (2002). Smart Mobs. The next social revolution. Perseus Books Group.
- Institute for the Future (2011) The future of open fabrication. http://www.iftf.org/uploads/media/SR-1390_FutureOfOpenFab.FINAL_sm.pdf
- Hill, D. (2013): Essay: On the smart city; Or, a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead. http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/02/on-the-smart-city-a-call-for-smart-citizens-instead.html
7.11 Seminar “Infrastructuring the commons”
- If you are unable to attend the seminar read and send a short summary/reaction to the text: Hess, Charlotte, Mapping the New Commons (July 1, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1356835 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1356835
2.12 Towards Beirut (II)
- Gibran Khalil Gibran: You have your Lebanon and I have my Lebanon. From: THE TREASURED WRITINGS OF KAHLIL GIBRAN, edited and translated from Arabic by Martin L. Wolf, Anthony R. Ferris, and Andrew Dib Sherfan. http://www.arab2.com/gibran/f/your-lebanon-mine.htm
- Chipchase, J. Imperialistic tendencies. http://janchipchase.com/content/essays/imperialist-tendencies/