[VBbuilders] [globalvillages] I like Zenonas Anusauskas's way

Thu Jan 27 06:27:51 CET 2011

I didn't realize that there already was the videobridgebuilders idea
floating around. It is similar in many ways, but like many things that are
complex in nature I believe we are taking the core idea of bringing people
together within a space, connected by video and audio but separated by
distance; from different angles.

It just struck me as a way to improve membership and participation
without burdening someone who lives in a region where they do not have the
population density to form their own support group.

This weekend I will have a better idea of what kind of group I have to work
with. I suppose I should also prepare some material to explain with as
opposed to my usual chalk scribblings and wildly waving hands.

What I want to see is the ability to connect several similar communities
together with a 24 hour video feed so you can improve the chances of making
a connection with someone while working together on a project or activity.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada at reflex.at> wrote:

>
>
> Lawrence Kincheloe* *wrote in the Globalvillages mailing list*:*
>
> Something I just thought of while writing this and would like to try is to
> setup a room with a 24 hour live webcam that you can go into which has
> projectors on each of the walls. Each wall represents another room and
> another space similar to the one you presently reside. The benefit is that
> you physically enter into the space to socialize with potentially random
> people, who all choose to be there for a specific purpose. Kind of like a
> live message board, but with an intimate aspect.
>
> The reason I think this might work is because of chat-roulette. It was a
> big internet fad for a few months, but the novel thing about it was the
> chance to socialize with strangers in a safe and semi-anonymous
> environment. All that is needed is to put that same chance to socialize with
> strangers in a framework that is conducive to real discussion.
>
> I share this with the videobridgebuilders and of course with Inga and Ralf.
>
>
> Hello Lawrence,
>
> thanks for showing up in such a constructive way.  I still admire the Torch
> Table Project you created at Factor E Farm and think its an outstanding
> example of working alongside the potential and ambition of Marcin. The
> debate about FeF is not over and it will hopefully help us to at least
> become aware of the different value-systems colliding here, but you
> rightfully point beyond the debate towards returning to our social
> inventiveness.
>
> What you bring up is at the core of why I kept insisting for so many years
> on the term Global Villages. We need local communities, local living
> circumstances at the focus of our attention - yet they draw their power to a
> large extent from mixing the local circumstance with a productive, positive
> and helpful "grassroots globalisation" which mostly, but not entirely,
> consists out of virtual connections to the peers elsewhere, the mothercities
> and their support economy, plus the people that bring us excitement and
> inspiration.
>
> And yes, we have not really very much design for Global Villages yet. But
> what you stress, a "Global Room", totally resonates with what we came up
> with as videobridges.  Such a Global Room is a core component of a Global
> Village circumstance, and videobridging builds on four special assumptions.
>
> * Not only people are important, space is also important - we need to
> intuitively understand others local circumstance
> * we promote the spirit of synchronous telecoopperation - bring people
> together that work and learn in parallel, not only talk
> * Audiovisuals give us a great experience that is not matched by text or
> symbolic representation
> * High-end audiovisuals allow us to get a sense of presence and creative
> interactivity
>
> I like to call your proposal a "pattern", and we just have started to
> collect possible patterns. Of course, a pattern in the exact sense
> Christopher Alexander introduced needs to have an experience component,
> which means that we have to implememnt and experiment with these ideas to
> see if they are valid.
>
> Hoping to have you on the boat as one of the experimentators
>
> Franz
>
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