Community-Based Design Methods Workshop
(November 18, 2004)

Co-organizers: Gregory Wolff, John Canny and Matthew Kam

Matthew Kam > Community Design Workshop > November 18, 2004 

Notes

Disclaimer: Notes contributed by workshop participants do not necessarily reflect what presenters said.  Their notes are posted here to provide a more complete account of the workshop, as interpreted by the respective note-takers. 

Agenda

The inaugural workshop was held on:

Date:    November 18, 2004
Time:    1 to 4 pm
Venue:  University of California, Berkeley
             Berkeley Institute of Design
             354/360 Hearst Memorial Mining Building #1764
             Berkeley, CA 94720-1764

Time

Topic

12:30 to 1:10

Substantial snacks.

 

 

1:10 to 1:30

Overview of activity-centered design (John Canny: canny-11182004.PPT, Xiaodong Jiang: http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/fresco/proposal.pdf).

1:30 to 1:45

Overview of open design initiative and extreme design (Greg Wolff: wolff-11182004.PPT).

1:45 to 2:05

Overview and demo of “6 Friends” e-community (Phil Solk: solk-11182004.PPT).

2:05 to 2:20

Brief progress updates (Greg Wolff, Matthew Kam, Onny Chatterjee, others).

2:20 to 2:30

Brief update on social entrepreneurship competition (Greg Wolff, Onny Chatterjee, Matthew Kam, others).

 

 

2:30 to 2:45

Break time.

 

 

2:45 to 3:00

Community network services infrastructure and API (Kitt Hodsden).

3:00 to 3:30

Brainstorming breakout session.

3:30 to 4:00

Brainstorming debrief and workshop wrap-up.

 

 

4:00 onwards

Social hour.

In particular, the brainstorming session aims to engage workshop participants in defining the API for the community network services infrastructure, which will constitute a platform for social innovation.  The session will use real-world observations of a microfinance information technology project in Uganda as a starting point to stimulate everyone to contribute their creative energies.

I can be contacted at mattkam@cs.berkeley.edu  

<< Back to workshop main page