PubliCamp

Return to Parade BarCamps May 22, 2010 * Main Page When: Sunday 5th July, 2-5pm Where: Kennington Park To refine and generate some of the intellectual content, and perhaps some of the participants for Parade, we are planning to convene a PubliCamp in Kennington Park – a former common, scene of a huge public Chartist gathering, enclosed (with Royal sponsorship), and now a ‘public’ park. We intend to explore different conceptions of publicness - historical, cultural, political, social, architectural and digital. We aim to develop a shared ethic towards the notion of public goods, and will not be deterred by the disagreeable, contentious, messy, inefficient, live, improvisatory and provisional nature of Being in Public. Public, common or shared resources are like muscles: they become stronger with exercise. PubliCamp will use a barcamp structure, something we have experimented with before. BarCamps are an international network of user generated unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. They work like this: presentations (which might aggregate into themed sessions) are proposed in advance (see sign-up sheet below) or on on-the-day by attendees. We then try and build themed 'sessions' or groups of related presentations using white/flip boards, and mostly on-site. All attendees are encouraged to present and share their expertise. At the moment we are thinking of 10 minute presentations, with 10 minutes for questions/discussion. We try and keep lots of notes and everyone is encouraged to share information and experiences of the event, both live and after the fact, via blogging, photo sharing, social bookmarking, wiki-ing, twitter, etc. Through this barcamp, Critical Practice identified various themes of interest that aim to carry forward in Parade. You can find these themes here.

Open Budget Total: £439.30 (provisional) Expenditure Sign materials £10.95 pic-nic materials £23.46 Item £++++ Total Expenditure: £123.25 Total remainder: £++++

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PubliCamp sign-up

RESOURCE CAMP	NAME	E-Mail	BLOG/WEBSITE	ORGANIZATION	TOPIC
person 01	Paula Roush	paularoush type gmail type com	thinking practices	msdm	****
person 02	Cinzia Cremona	cinziacremona(at)googlemail(dot)com	****	Critical Practice	Public includes me! What am I going to do?
person 03	Neil Cummings	neil type chanceprojects type com	website	Critical Practice	Public service
person 04	Stefan Szczelkun	see user:szczels	I wrote most of wikipedia timeline on KP + a photo journal of participant observation	none	will be in Battersea Park!
person 05	Marsha Bradfield	marshabradfield(at)gmail(dot)comb	****	****	TBC
person 06	Miriam Kings	forthcoming	****	****	TBC
person 07	Lucy Tomlins	lucy.htap@gmail.com	****	****	TBC

Kennington Park context

Stefan Szczelkun's participant observation and wikipedia article.
And some pictures

Publicamp tweets and twitpics

Paula Roush: live tweets and publicamp tagged twitpics

twitpics

1. publicamp start

1. publicamp boring story House weekend sports holidays money parties vicious circle energy industry glass steel insulation atômica atômica a

1. publicamp Know yr opponents yr tactics yr terrain

1. publicamp critical practice vs capitalism shift The middle ground from € To critique lets become more concrete more real

1. publicamp Underground publics

1. publicamp disability body spectacle speech act Public knowledge gaze categories of people and bodies cosmetic smooth efficient body enable

1. publicamp intervene in derelict housing estate in Hackney orange boards open dialogue between people

Publicamp on Flickr

• Publicamp

PubliCamp Album

• Marsha's Snaps

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