MobilityShifts

Vom 10. – 16. Oktober 2011 veranstaltet Trebor Scholz an der New School (New York City) ein internationales Gipfeltreffen über Digitales Lernen: MobilityShifts ist eine Konferenz, Ausstellung und Theateraufführung. Es ist Teil der New School Konferenz Biennale „Die Politik der Digitalen Kultur“, die einen Freiraum für Verbindungen zwischen Kunst, Gestaltung, und den Sozialwissenschaften herstellt.

MobilityShifts untersucht Digitales Lernen aus einer internationalen Perspektive. Die Konferenz betrachtet selbstorganisierte Bildungsalternativen auch außerhalb der Institutionen Akademie, Schule, Universität, prüft den Begriff des „Digital Native“ und fokussiert auf eine konstruktivistische Annäherung zur Medienkompetenz im 21. Jahrhundert.
Die illustre Gruppe von Konferenzteilnehmern setzt sich aus Künstlern, Lehrern, Studenten, Bildungswissenschaftlern, politischen Entscheidungsträgern, Programmierern, Bibliothekaren, und Wissenschaftlern aus den verschiedensten Bereichen zusammen. Wesentlich geht es um drei Themenbereiche:

• Digital Fluencies for a Mobile World
• DIY U: Learning Without a School?
• Digital Learning Projects Globally

Wir werden dort das Konzept des .mbr MedienBildungsRaums im Institut für Kunst & Kunsttheorie als „Open Experimental Learning Space“ vorstellen:

Our laboratory at University of Cologne has grown from a regular classroom to a multi purpose learning space – MedienBildungsRaum (mbr). Dealing with concepts of multi-purpose learning environments and theories on learning spaces and knowledge building, physical and virtual space are equally important for present and future learning processes. We seek to prepare flexible core concepts for adjustable spaces of new learning culture and develop patterns for different settings of learning and knowledge building activities based on Christopher Alexander’s Pattern–Language (1977), finding solutions for their representation in our particular room. It is vital for Bildung* to allow technology and architecture to be unnoticed and extraordinarily flexible to the changing demands of learning. Adjustable, agile, corrigible installations, furniture and portable technology define distinct but temporary zones of action and enable diversifiable settings for learning. There will be a general introduction to learning spaces and Christopher Alexander’s pattern language with examples, and participants will then develop patterns for learning. The result of this workshop will be a collaboratively designed pattern-based learning I media I space.

MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
The New School in NYC
October 10-16, 2011

The New School presents the second event in its Politics of Digital Culture conference series „MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit.“ Comprised of a conference, hands-on workshops, project demonstrations, exhibitions and a theater performance featuring youth and educators from New York City and Chicago, MobilityShifts is a week-long summit in October 2011. MobilityShifts makes unexpected international connections between the theories of Jacques Rancière and Ivan Illich, learning projects outside the bounds of schools and universities, mobile platforms, and the Open Web. Stop, reflect, listen, discuss, and build with artists, media scholars, policy makers, students, technologists, teachers, librarians, legal scholars and learning activists from 21 countries.

http://www.mobilityshifts.org
http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/program/

REGISTRATION
To attend MobilityShifts you must register. The early bird rate ends on September 15th.

http://www.mobilityshifts.org/register1

Participants include: Eduardo Ochoa, Hal Plotkin, Cathy Davidson, Michael Wesch, Oliver Grau, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, Anya Kamenetz, Geert Lovink, Shin Mizukoshi, John Palfrey, Irit Rogoff, Juliana Rotich, Benjamin Bratton, Katie Salen, Shveta Sarda, Molly Steenson, Elizabeth Losh, Tony Conrad, Lev Manovich, Torsten Meyer, Jan Schmidt, Tomi Ahonen, Beth Coleman, John Willinsky, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Alexander Halavais, Giselle Beiguelman, David Carroll, Tania Bustos, Kate Crawford, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Sean Dockray, Rolf Hapel, Juan Manuel Lopez Garduno, Daria Ng, Chris Lawrence, Josie Fraser, David Theo, Goldberg, Marisa Jahn, Sam Gregory, Shravan Goli, Manu Kapur, Edward
Keller, Eric Kluitenberg, Jairo Moreno, Michael Pettinger, Michael Preston, Daniela Rosner, Richard Scullin, Ramon Sanguesa, Elaine Savory, Luis Camnitzer, Nishant Shah, Janek Sowa, Dan Visel, Nitin Sawhney and many others.
http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/participants

Summit Chair
Trebor Scholz

Co-Chairs: Edward Keller, Elizabeth Losh, Matthew K. Gold, David Theo Goldberg , Karen DeMoss, Sean Dockray
Producer: Jennifer Conley Darling
Associate Producers: Caroline Buck, Liz Carlson
Summit Steering Committee: Arien Mack, Katie Salen, McKenzie Wark