How do we create and maintain a community space and the role of artifacts in this?
SUMMARY
Description
- Multidimensional community space
- from text to multimodal
- Physical to digital
- Private to public
- Uncooked to fully cooked – from exemplars to seeds
- Individual creativity to collective creativity
- Tools, artifacts, information, discussion, practices, tutorials, projects, meetings, newsletter
What are successful outcomes for the community space?
- Extending the community beyond academia
- International, industry, wide community
- Attracts new students, academics, and industry participants
- Extending the description of creativity beyond what academic community can come up with
- Enhancing unbounded social creativity
- Aggregation and tracking
- Aggregate collective knowledge Space that can track how creativity comes about – emerges
- Extend physical community
- Traveling projects
- meetings
- Well connected with links to and from the wiki to and from other web sites and communities
- Validation space: Work and research on the wiki could be used to persuade faculty heads/chairs of departments about the value and prestige of these research directions
- Good common reference space: Useful resource for exemplary work, data sets, research tools, and for explaining and sharing ideas about best practices
- Good archiving space: extend output tie of work
- Discussion and collaboration space: Secure, comfortable and inviting space to share half-baked ideas that will grow to fully baked ideas
- Communications on the wiki would lead to successful, future ‘traditional’ collaborations such as a high-quality journal, annual conference or symposium
- Industry connections: who is doing what, what are the industry issues, industry posed projects
- A communal dynamic, reference space
Requirements:
- Community time, attention and motivation
- Resources for students/staff for editing and application development
- Don’t limit funding avenues to NSF; look also to industry, private foundations, etc
- Successful output filters: A model that does that filtering at the output
- How to create successful output filters – not only for getting artifacts but producing physical outputs and connections
Challenges:
- to create high energy, very interesting, interactive debates: how can we create a place where people will do this? What is the overhead in getting a debate started and maintaining it?
- How can it be inviting and also be challenging?
- A model that does that filtering at the output
- How to create successful output filters – not only
- Easily leaving crumbs without getting totally engaged or committed, progressive engagement
- Crossing physical and digital space
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