vivian's notes from the Meeting with Dick Rijken on the 22.
Idea is LOCAL. Specific interest = IT in society and in a cultural angle. What is the changing role of culture in society? Culture used to be a sector, i.e. museums, dance, like education or business. Information society = meaning becomes more important. Culture sector the place where there is full of meaning. Internet - infrastructure for meaning. Using media to have people discuss meaning. All sectors of society are looking into culture and creating meaningful experiences/environments. Nobody knows what a journalist is anymore.
Idea behind Waterwolf - WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ON HYPERLOCAL LEVEL? Being rooted in shared physical environment. Flickr/UTube. Concepts that exist. Virtual environments. Investigate relationship b/w physical vs. virtual. All cities have existing cultural infrastructure. *Investigate - internet usage in Gouda. Dutch statistics - 80% population online...
Can we come up with something meaningful as an experience?
3 institutes want to define themselves. Library, archive, museum = classical cultural meanings.
goudanet.nl = digital catalog of three. lists of what they have. can look up document and find where it is located.
? How can they redefine their relationship to this local society?
Gouda is sinking. Students from Haagse Hogeschool. Water in Gouda. 2-3 months. No one cares. Gemeente wanted to know in what way were people interested in water. Had plans to reopen canals, getting rid of bridges to change water management in city. Students talked to everyone - water engineers, library, archive, museum, people on the street. RESULT = big for professionals but locals don't care. Some are extremely interested and against all new plans.
Information and two way relationships between the public spaces - streets, cafes, homes, institutes. Not necessarily a physical presence, but can contribute something from their home and have it visible in the public space.
High school ends at 18 years. All youth move between 18-30. Fundamentalist Christian school to become teachers.
*Is there a Gouda flickr community? Gouda youtube group?
Trends, tendencies. Football is big but the football clubs are not doing good. So, instead of using the clubs, using sms/mobiles to create an informal organization to play. Don't want to be confined. Informal teams have semi-formal competitions.
What we don't want to happen: polarize the worlds. Give parties and nobody knows. Museum exhibits and only other museum goers attend.
Informal - formal - organizational. i.e. patient groups. Professionals to informalize. Individuals to formalize and organize.
Process of reflection - realization of what you are capable of as an individual.
Dick - VPRO/3voor12 - Be professional. Be a journalist. Broadcaster is professionalizing amateur citizens. Challenging you to formalize. Think of what you are doing.
What is the role of these 3 institutes?
Museum used to have old classroom and teachers could go there and give their students an old-fashioned 19th c. school experience. Is that what a modern museum is about? To give you an idea of what life was like years ago. Part of growing up/Gouda identity. Ranti cancelled this and now in place - kids are asked to bring their collections to the museum, i.e. legos, dolls, fire trucks. Museum staff coach the kids to exhibit the collections. Kids explain why they chose those objects. Coach what you do to others.
What is useless media? Unread blogs. Process of reflection of writing something that is potentially viewable by whole world. Forces you to verbalize/externalize. To not forget. Dead letter offices - write something to lose the paper. Message in a bottle. Desire of being known.
*Are there commuter students? Immigrant communities - do their students commute from home?
Hoogseschool - more multicultural than universities. Takes 3 generations to study something that doesn't have clear profession. Bank teller - Economist - Philosopher.
*Need more local advisors. Ask Martijn about local scene. commuter students.
By being foreigners, on the side of things. Outsiders in a positive way.
Idea behind Waterwolf - WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ON HYPERLOCAL LEVEL? Being rooted in shared physical environment. Flickr/UTube. Concepts that exist. Virtual environments. Investigate relationship b/w physical vs. virtual. All cities have existing cultural infrastructure. *Investigate - internet usage in Gouda. Dutch statistics - 80% population online...
Can we come up with something meaningful as an experience?
3 institutes want to define themselves. Library, archive, museum = classical cultural meanings.
goudanet.nl = digital catalog of three. lists of what they have. can look up document and find where it is located.
? How can they redefine their relationship to this local society?
Gouda is sinking. Students from Haagse Hogeschool. Water in Gouda. 2-3 months. No one cares. Gemeente wanted to know in what way were people interested in water. Had plans to reopen canals, getting rid of bridges to change water management in city. Students talked to everyone - water engineers, library, archive, museum, people on the street. RESULT = big for professionals but locals don't care. Some are extremely interested and against all new plans.
Information and two way relationships between the public spaces - streets, cafes, homes, institutes. Not necessarily a physical presence, but can contribute something from their home and have it visible in the public space.
High school ends at 18 years. All youth move between 18-30. Fundamentalist Christian school to become teachers.
*Is there a Gouda flickr community? Gouda youtube group?
Trends, tendencies. Football is big but the football clubs are not doing good. So, instead of using the clubs, using sms/mobiles to create an informal organization to play. Don't want to be confined. Informal teams have semi-formal competitions.
What we don't want to happen: polarize the worlds. Give parties and nobody knows. Museum exhibits and only other museum goers attend.
Informal - formal - organizational. i.e. patient groups. Professionals to informalize. Individuals to formalize and organize.
Process of reflection - realization of what you are capable of as an individual.
Dick - VPRO/3voor12 - Be professional. Be a journalist. Broadcaster is professionalizing amateur citizens. Challenging you to formalize. Think of what you are doing.
What is the role of these 3 institutes?
Museum used to have old classroom and teachers could go there and give their students an old-fashioned 19th c. school experience. Is that what a modern museum is about? To give you an idea of what life was like years ago. Part of growing up/Gouda identity. Ranti cancelled this and now in place - kids are asked to bring their collections to the museum, i.e. legos, dolls, fire trucks. Museum staff coach the kids to exhibit the collections. Kids explain why they chose those objects. Coach what you do to others.
What is useless media? Unread blogs. Process of reflection of writing something that is potentially viewable by whole world. Forces you to verbalize/externalize. To not forget. Dead letter offices - write something to lose the paper. Message in a bottle. Desire of being known.
*Are there commuter students? Immigrant communities - do their students commute from home?
Hoogseschool - more multicultural than universities. Takes 3 generations to study something that doesn't have clear profession. Bank teller - Economist - Philosopher.
*Need more local advisors. Ask Martijn about local scene. commuter students.
By being foreigners, on the side of things. Outsiders in a positive way.
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