Description
Invited SpeakerTitle: Commoning the Network: Cultural Producers as Co-Creators of Cultural Commons in Medellin, Colombia
The paper looks at a network of cultural producers and grassroots art spaces in Medellin, Colombia focusing on their creation of cultural values in the city – and apparently of cultural commons. The paper is based on an ongoing ethnographic research initiated in 2015 where initial data has shown an emerging network of cultural producers in Medellin who are merging together traditional Colombian cultural values (buen vivir, buen conocer) with new media art ethos (Do-It-With-Others, free libre knowledge, open source, peer-to-peer learning) as well as decolonizing and autonomous forms of knowledge production. The data has also demonstrated their clear interest in co-creating ‘cultural commons’. Following this line of inquiry, the paper looks at collaborative creative practices as paradigms of a new ontology of knowledge through action and sociality, which transforms the way art producers co-create, partake and make use of the products of their creation. Within this context, creativity, and subsequent knowledge formation is looked as forms of social interaction rather than the outcomes of social activities or otherwise as a collective becoming; a commoning. The paper also proposes an ethnographic research on-its-making where participants are peer-ethnographers using collaborative tools to engage with the fieldwork practices and writing-up of the ethnographic text.
Period | 3 Nov 2017 |
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Event type | Symposium |
Location | Brussels, BelgiumShow on map |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Documents & Links
Related content
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Activities
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“Creating Commons: Commoning the Institution / Instituting the Commons”
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Presentation of the Research Project "Cultural Commons: How do we put it into practice in Medellin?"
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Urban Transcripts: Transforming the [re]public
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Research output
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Distributed authorship and creative communities: Revisited
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Ethnographies of co-creation and collaboration as models of creativity
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Beyond the Digital Approach: The Roots of Human Network
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Projects
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Making Cultural Commons in Medellin, Colombia
Project: University Awarded Project Funding