Events

Jean-Baptiste Labrune On Creativity

Jean-BaptisteLabruneOnCreativity, the 28th of February 2011 at 2pm at CRI

#fablab on Twitter, identi.ca, Live Cast, TwitterStreamGraphs, Collecta, flickr

Own objectives

  1. share my own disenchantment regarding 3D printing
  2. explore his concepts
    1. exaptive innovation
    2. creative epistemology

Attended activities

Personal preparation

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Talk

  • documenting creativity as it is happening
    • live
      • oriented toward real-timeliness
    • how does this compare to my Live-wikying? cf Events started before summer 2010
  • view creativity
    • different and appropriate
    • no ability to measure or augment
  • pedagogical historical exploration
  • skimming through http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanbaptisteparis/
  • Wikipedia:Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
  • social network aspect of avant-garde, introducing each others
    • e.g. John Brockman and Warhol, now publishing Edge
      • risk of elitism (despite its sometimes positive definition), since being part of the event is not equivalent to reading the blog
        • e.g. through serendipity (cf AIW02#WebAndSerendipity), context through constraints of physical space
          • how to share more than the content
        • unlike the web, but is it enough?
    • yet to check against post-narrative
  • consequently, how to scale such creative and social spaces?
  • architecture of the MIT Media Lab
    • visited with Lea during NY-Montreal09
    • initially the hidden BatCave to the open see-through Media Lab 2.0
  • overall very "correct" research at MIT Media Lab
    • rather than questioning a political or ethical situation
    • the importance of the visible, a "brand"
  • question on the ethical aspect of creations, can they be "badly" used?
  • history of the lab under the chairs
    • physical hidden layer of history of the previous works, technological archeology
  • flexible goal reaching strategy
    • comparing German with precise map vs. Italian way toward a moving target
  • limited space
    • at least require a goal shared with somebody there
    • "a physical space that is bigger than a dinner [to compare with Edge]"
    • discussion on political aspect for acceptance (e.g. tenure)
  • re-productiveness
    • smartness (even though here mostly ADHD/Asperger), money (including here from DARPA here) and space are required
      • but not sufficient
        • need also a culture, not solely an open environment
    • the importance of space comes from "living togetherness"
      • how to deal with not being to live all at the same place?
        • consider networked distributed environment
    • is it even desirable?
      • knowing its own limitations
    • significant amount of people from alternative pedagogical background including Montessori
      • which does not apply to the Engineering department
  • ability to put projects to hibernation
    • a la swapping after saving the process context
  • mention of mecatronics projects
  • on the importance of the availability of machines
  • description of Sprout non-hackerspace space in the actual garage
    • harvested material, including http://web.mit.edu/reuse/
    • importance again of face to face interaction, not through website
    • yet the whole chain is not necessarily complete yet, some tasks have to be delegated to actual lab
      • not "everything is possible"
    • mention of BioCurious
  • spreading tools
  • importance of shared design
    • efficiency of shared simple rules
  • mention of H+ Summit and critics on some transhumanists and their views

See also @CyBunk's Delicious "web ballade" (and an earlier related proposal Seedea:Oimp/InternetGuide focusing more on the Internet itself)

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Personal remarks

  • requiring a 2nd person view / reflection
    • like brain imaging, might require a new form of discipline not to go offtrack
    • potentially breaking flow
    • requiring more cognitive resources
      • even if later on it might be beneficial
        • e.g. comments in code
  • handling multiple channels
    • equivalent to communication with RT media e.g. Twitter back wall during a talk
  • since interested in epistemology and creative space
    • is there a source? is it MIT Media Lab?
    • if the MediaLab is the main source (or one of its main sources), does it mean it will remain a fundamental place even through an economical paradigm shift as suggested by WithoutNotesFebruary11#MartinFord?
  • direct critic of transhumanism
    • yet for most, it would appear as if he is working in its cradle

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Overall remarks and conclusions

  • how to define culture?
  • what are the progresses of scalability?
  • for myself and wiki inclined people : World#CreativeSpace?action=edit
  • live-documenting was not the topic, rather replicating creative spaces

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Other reviews or coverage

  • here

To do

  1. improve Template
    1. note that [[#menu]] should be moved to the GroupHeader instead
  2. on self-selection, check my on-going AIW05#TopicProposal
  3. mention of http://cba.mit.edu visited before
    1. jdward: fab class Make Something Big
  4. mention of massage and Shiatsu to share with Guerrique

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