--- title: Designing with Collective Intelligence page_type: course track: Exploration course_type: Workshop feature_img: /assets/images/2023-24/year-1/t-2/designing-with-collective-intelligence.png img_caption: faculty: - jessica-guy - olga-trevisan ects: 2 --- {{ insert_banner() }} ## Syllabus **Fair Future(s) | Designing with Collective Intelligence** Hybrid four-day international collaborative event featuring talks, workshops, and self-organized working sessions. In collaboration with the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, this seminar offers a dynamic exploration of emerging themes and hands-on experience in the evolving landscape of creative industries and decentralized governance. It introduces concepts such as Digital Commons and Governance in Distributed Autonomous Organizations within the context of creative industries. Participants from MDEF and SODA will form international teams to actively discuss and craft future scenarios that reflect on the upholding perma / poly crisis. During the working sessions, the teams will develop innovative, new governance and economic models. The objectives of the teams are to collectively develop a digital and/or physical artifact that will make tangible alternative modes of operation and creative expression existing within in the co-developed speculative scenarios. The resulting projects will be presented on the online platform DAFNE+, an EU research project designed to assist digital content creators in discovering new potentials for creation, distribution, and monetization through blockchain technology. **Keywords:Future(s), alternative governance, crafting multimedia artefacts** ### Learning Objectives Conceptual Understanding: - Students will explore the concepts of commons and DAOs within the creative industries context through inspirational and theoretical lectures and real-world examples. Speculative Workshop Participation: - Students will engage in a speculative workshop hosted by external collaborators to gain deeper insights and guidance around the introduced concepts. - Teams split into international working groups will collaboratively choose a future scenario theme, to systematically develop future scenarios for their ideal DAO governance model. Artifact Development: - Identify and collaboratively develop an artifact using diverse multimedia format to create the final output for the creative jam. Dafne + Platform: - Introduction to DAFNE+ platform's possibilities, learning the basic functions, with practical application in subsequent tasks such as the creation and uploading of the project into the platform. Studio Visit Exhibition: - Each group will showcase their digital artifacts, contributing to the studio visit exhibition, emphasizing effective presentation and communication of ideas. ### Methodological Strategies - Workshops - Lectures - Project-based learning - Peer learning - Team-based learning ## Schedule === "23/01" The event kicks off, taking place both online and in person at each location. Two inspirational talks by experts selected by Fab Lab Barcelona and SODA (School of Digital Arts of Manchester) will introduce the main theme of 'Fair Future(s)'. === "24/01" Morning Session - Introduction to the concepts of commons and DAOs in the creative industries. - Workshop by expert AX Mina on "Fair Future(s)" covering wealth distribution, intellectual property rights, and inclusion in production. - Workshop format to make digital commons and governance model-related concepts tangible and interactive, contributing to defining the student's future scenario for the new governance model. Afternoon Session - The students from both locations, organized into international team groups, begin working on and developing a multimedia medium artifact as the final output of the creative jam. - Presentation of future scenarios. === "25/01" Morning Session - Dedicated to self-organized working sessions within interdisciplinary teams for further artifact development. Afternoon Session - Introduction and setup of Dafne+ EU, where the developed artifact will be uploaded. === "26/01" - Creation of the project repository and final working session. - Studio visit, where each student group will showcase their speculative future and artidact through a collective presentation. ## Deliverables Personal Account on Dafne+, Development of the team repository, submission of the collective artifact. ## Evaluation Strategies The grading will be 0 or 10: 0 if the students do not come to class and 10 if the students come to the classes and participate. !!! ects "European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS)" {{ ects }} ECTS ## Additional Resources - [Blockchain tools for creators. Cryptofunding digital commons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1lMzdyOmf0), by Karim Esry from Espacio Open - [CC0 Studios](https://www.cc0studios.com/), exploring creative commons and open-source projects within the blockchain space. - [re:publica 2023: AX Mina - The Magic of Pluralistic Futures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_W8NzbfdlY), Ax Mina’s talk at re:publica 2023 discussing the magic of pluralistic futures, possibly exploring diverse and decentralized perspectives. - [R&D Futures Project](https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-07-introducing-r-and-d-futures), by Henry Cooke and Libby Mille about envisioning possible futures. - [Hugo Pilate - Creative Code](https://hugopilate.com/CreativeCode), a designer and digital artist specialized in the creation of collaborative experiences with a fascination for the past, present and future of city-making. - [Decentralized Autonomous Organization](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351078681_Decentralized_Autonomous_Organization), academic paper by Primavera De Filippi and Samer Hassan. - [Creative Commons Licenses](https://creativecommons.org/) - [Blockchain Technology and the Future of Work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-JLKBiVGY), talk about Blockchain Technology Beyond Bitcoin at Lift16 by Primavera De Filippi ## Faculty {{ insert_faculty() }}