Minds me of the stuff Brian Viziondance is doing in Glastonbury with kitchen table conversations.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Franz Nahrada <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:f.nahrada@reflex.at">f.nahrada@reflex.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">Lawrence Kincheloe</font><font style="font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Lucida Grande"><b> </b></font><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">wrote in the Globalvillages mailing list</font><font style="font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Lucida Grande"><b>:</b></font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208);"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Times New Roman">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. </font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208);"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Times New Roman">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. </font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">I share this with the videobridgebuilders and of course with Inga and Ralf.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">Hello Lawrence,</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">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.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">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.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">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.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">* Not only people are important, space is also important - we need to intuitively understand others local circumstance</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">* we promote the spirit of synchronous telecoopperation - bring people together that work and learn in parallel, not only talk</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">* Audiovisuals give us a great experience that is not matched by text or symbolic representation </font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">* High-end audiovisuals allow us to get a sense of presence and creative interactivity</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">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.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><font style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" size="+0" face="Geneva">Hoping to have you on the boat as one of the experimentators</font></div>
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