A Lab without walls
Published on 01/10/2009 - Games and methodologies
Co-Learning, Self-management, Communities / Networks, Games, Legal, Analogies of digital
Contributors: Antonio Lafuente
MediaLabPrado (Madrid) gathers a group of scholar and activists to study how to make visible and understandable the commons. For more than 2 years different approaches have been taken and the main criteria has been collaboration and openess. This approach emulates laboratory practices that is the reason for the name: Commons Lab.
Lab
It is often said that a family, a hospital, or a river are social laboratories, as they give rise to relations or conflicts that make it possible to understand all or... Read more
Legal Performance
Published on 01/06/2009 - Games and methodologies
Co-Learning, Games, Legal, Analogies of digital
Contributors: Constant
Aim of the exercises
These three short exercises investigate permitted behaviour in public space as specified in local laws.
Every time we act according to the law, we are contributing to its confirmation, we become 'legal bodies'; trained and instructed by a law we might or might not support. Through these exercises and the issues they touch upon, we propose to reinterpret definitions of public space, to test and stretch moral and public social boundaries.
Starting from a Free Software point of view, we feel that exchange should be built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and... Read more
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