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DesCentro - a de-centralized research space
DesCentro emerges as a strategy that simultaneously contains and is contained (by) a number of activist networks throughout Brasil, aiming at providing a structure that allows in-depth research, fosters exchanges between both local and global partners and the publicization and distribution of the production of these networks.
Brazlian Context
During the last few years, mostly 2005, a time of great endeavor for brasilian media activist and critical theory groups have come. The governmental support on issues such as f(l)oss and open content licenses and the shortage of this same government on qualified staff to carry its "digital inclusion" and cultural projects influenced some people involved with these movements to actually work within governamental structures, being able to simultaneously influence public projects and policies related to technology and its local contexts. Moreover, events such as midiataticabrasil, findetático, sinapsedigital, digitofagia and submidialogia promoted instances of contact between people in different groups.
These events started to forge a bigger and diverse network, articulated with social movements and organizations abroad. Furthermore, the very same way this network uses to meet and organize has become the methodology for those public projects.
Two problems, however, arise in a mid-term basis:
- If we were successful in promoting meetings and fostering a network to grow, the same can not be said about getting deeper into the knowledge generated between those people. Little effort is done in terms of structured documentation and even less in analysing the available documentation. Some people have tons of DV tapes or MDs full with interesting material behind their beds. And even if the work for the government is still done in a self-organized and somewhat free way, there is no room (nor time) for critical research upon those projects.
- All these processes inside the government are as efemerous as any latin american political project can be: if Lula loses the elections next year, no one can assure the projects will continue. These people were together before the current government, and will hopefully remain together once it ends, but at what cost? What can be done in the search for sustainability of brasilian critical media groups?
pilares
- social technology and appropriation - metareciclagem, free(d) tools, free software
- emergence, self-organization and local contexts - new ways of organization and mobilization, and how do people adapt to these new ways
- copyleft, commons and the democratization of innovation - the sociology and economics of free knowledge, and its consequences in cultural and mediatic production
personagens e papeis
Research - meta:research and study groups
- Chico Caminati, Dalton Martins, Paulo Lara
Infrastructure - server, online environments
- Alexandre Freire and Felipe Fonseca
Editorial - publications and local dissemination
- Ricardo Ruiz, Tatiana Wells, Felipe Fonseca
Cartography - local partners, events and residencies
- Felipe Fonseca and Paulo Lara, Tati Wells
Technology - research and experiments
- Dalton Martins and Alexandre Freire
Contact Points
- Alexandre Freire and Felipe Fonseca
the overall coordination will be > carried out by Tatiana Wells (Rio) and Felipe Fonseca (São Paulo). > The Exchange Platform has been working together with both of them > since mid 2004. The administrative structure for the setting up of > DesCentro will be provided by the independent Research Institute > IPTI in São Paulo. Formally, during 2006 DesCentro is incubated as a part of the Digital Culture research nucleus in IPTI - Technology Information Research Institute, based in São Paulo, Brasil. > > The Sarai Waag Exchange Platform will support the research > activities of DesCentro, collaborate on the dissemination of > research results outside of Brazil and provide server > infrastructure in Amsterdam.
Descentro interacts with a broad network of researchers and activists.
3 super tipos de atividade
In 2006 the focus of the research of
> DesCentro will be on two main areas:
metaresearch =
Meta-research: the goal of the meta-research is to situate > DesCentro in the broader context of Brazilian media activists, > social movements, critical theorists, independent and autonomous > groups and governmental projects and to establish mid- and long- > term commitments for DesCentro.
The goal of the meta-research is to situate DesCentro in the broader context of brasilian media activists, social movements, critical theorists, independent and autonomous groups and governmental projects and to establish mid- and long-term commitments for DesCentro. In other words, it's a planning approach to our next years. The meta-research will look into:
- networks - find, index and articulate groups, ngos, people, networks that are part of the bigger network, as well as spaces and events maintained by these people
- suggest axis and working platforms: tools, structures, actions
- point out the concepts and define the content areas
- define viable projects in short-, mid- and long-term
background research =
Background research: the background research aims at indexing, > editing, analysing and publishing on the web the content created in > the last years as result of the meetings and projects of the > Brazilian networks.
- Background research - the background research aims at indexing, editing, analysing and publishing on the web the content created in the last years as result of the meetings and projects of the brasilian networks.
pesquisa sobre a ocupacao/criacao de espacos atraves da pratica
DesCentro will makes use of an distributed infra structure > consisting of Piolim (development lab of Pontos de Cultura project > in São Paulo), Unicamp (University of Sao Paulo in Campinas), IP > (new media space, Rio de Janeiro), a server, a burnstation, conferences
Creation and development of specific activist and/or media art and intervention technology
objetivo final
The main goals behind DesCentro will be planning mid- and long-term actions for new media and digital inclusion practitioners and researchers in Brazil, providing a permanent online infrastructure for their content to be publicized and becoming a true distributed and open reference center for them to use. The intention is to develop an environment in which research and projects can be developed, not depending on the current political constellation. That will be accomplished by acting as a projects office and research network that remains connected with the independent groups that constitute the brasilian scenario and on looks for funding for project generated and executed by those groups.
In other words, it's a planning approach for the next years
Our actions in the last years have been of identifying and growing a network. We have successfully used the idle infrastructure of government instances, ngos, universities and companies to promote collective actions. However, the moment urges for the maturity of this network. Brasil doesn't have a stable political scenario yet, and we can't afford the risk of losing all our support in two years. Measures should be taken aiming at the independence and autonomy of this network. DesCentro is one such action. We hope to be able to streghten and expand the network by the promotion of moments and spaces (both permanent and temporary) for the convergence of practices and independent/local researches, solidified through a series of multimedia material, planned workshops, events and other activities with the network.
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in my eyes there needs to be a clearer distinction between local and externa (platform) activities.
do you see any possibility of bundeling some of the activities mentioned in the wiki into these two research clusters, attribute budget items and deliverables to it? based on that we can make a contract with the IPTI and disburese the first rate of our funds.
oque e como - relacionado as 3 areas
- Distributed space: projects will be developed in Piolim (São Paulo), Unicamp (Campinas), IPe (Rio) and other, temporary or permanent, spaces.
- Online infrastructure: environments where the conversations, project planning, discussions and storage take place.
atividades internas
- DesCentro's face-to-face encounters
- DesCentro's virtual encounters
metaresearch
- Set up basic physical and methodological infrastructure
- Set up editorial collective
- Collaboration tools, technologies and methodologies
- MetaRede
backgroundresearch
- Define a graphic identity
- Cartography of independent and autonomous groups and spaces, as well as available infrastructure (wifi hotspots, meeting rooms, libraries, mídia van (http://www.midiatatica.org/wakka/wakka.php?wakka=OnibusBrasil), etc)
contaminacao e contagio
- submidialogia #2 - The second edition of submidialogia (name not yet confirmed) but probably to happen in Recife/PE.
- Saco cheio
- Establish an online environment for internal conversations and decision-making
- Server - Buying and setting up a server at waag's datacenter, to store edited content, streaming server and other projects
- Finish the submidialogia post-conference reader PDF
- Study Groups - Groups of study, in a broad range of subjects, taking place at Unicamp (Campinas), IP (Rio de Janeiro), Piolim/Olido (São Paulo), and Pipa / Rio Grande do Norte, as well as in an online environment, aiming at deeper development, both conceptual and practical, of practices related to DesCentro interest fields.
- InFornalha - burn stations and CD copiers
atividades relacionadas
- Extra resources, prizes, contests
itinerancias
- cibersalão.br
- Events - Participation and support to events such as the World Social Forum, the Web2.0 seminar, the national cultural hotspots meeting, and others.
1.1.4.1 FSM / Mímica, em Sampa 1.1.4.2 matuTai 1.1.4.3 National MetaReciclagem Encounter 1.1.4.4 AlagoasVai 1.1.4.6 Cienti Event (no name yet)
1.2 Publications
1.2.2 Imaginary Futures 1.2.4 Cienti Magazine (no name yet) 1.2.5 midiatatica.org
atividades relacionadas a plataforma
publicacoes
Residencies - Promote interchanges between governamental projects, independent and autonomous spaces/groups and projects abroad.
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