[liberationtech] FREE !! Community Day: Wicked Problems, Tech, and the Community

Tue Jun 8 21:31:01 CEST 2021

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Community Day <https://2021.comtech.community/community-day/> will take
place *virtually* on June 20, 2021, the day before the regular sessions of
the Communities and Technologies conference
<https://2021.comtech.community/>. Community Day is FREE to the public. Please
register ASAP to reserve your place
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-day-only-free-pre-day-for-communities-technologies-2021-registration-158179724815>
and
help us with our planning.

Community Day is intended to help inform the research community about
the practice community—and vice versa. It was going to be in the physical
city we call Seattle but other phenomena intervened. This is the first time
the C&T conference is offering a Community Day and we hope to learn from
our successes (and mistakes) for future Community Days. Community Day
Reservation

*Wicked Problems, Tech, and the Community*

Our purpose is to encourage productive conversations in which academics and
researchers directly interact with community members and activists about
the tools they need and their views and experiences with technology.
Community Day will be a day of mutual learning as both groups have specific
useful knowledge and insights that the other group might not have. The idea
is to help bring deeper understanding of the realities of communities and
technologies by focusing on those issues as they are manifested in the host
city.

Community Day should be of interest to anybody who is interested in
community and its relation to technology. It should be of special interest
to community organizers, social service and other professionals, community
tech practitioners, journalists, educators, artists, activists, community
managers, and all others with a stake in community life. Many issue areas
are relevant but issues such as social justice, inclusion, democracy and
misinformation, environmentalism, public health, homelessness and
displacement, and labor rights are likely to be on the agenda.

Finally, it is our hope and intention to help move this work forward via
our findings and our new relationships.

*9:30 - 10:45   Panel Discussion ~~~ Seattle Facing Wicked Problems*

Panelists from diverse perspectives will present their projects and discuss
their relation to tech—positively and negatively—and what might be able to
be done about it.

     * Maru Mora Villalpando, Co-founder and community organizer, La
Resistencia

     * Miranda Marti, co-lead, 350 Seattle Maritime Solutions Team

     * Roxanne White, Missing and Murdered Indigenous People / MMIP and
Their Families

*10:45 - 11:00 Break*

*11:00 - 12:30 pm   Workshops*

We are offering three workshops, each of which is intended to help inspire
and empower researchers and community members. Registration in advance for
these workshops is encouraged because they will have limits on how many
people can participate. (contact us at communityday at comtech.community for
the Design Fiction or Arts-Based workshops.)

Animating Climate Campaigns: Using the *Liberating Voices *Pattern Language
to Connect and Start New Initiatives; Organized by Aldo de Moor, Douglas
Schuler. [call for participation
<https://publicsphereproject.org/sites/default/files/call-for-pattern-workshop.pdf>
] [registration
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAgrahPaX93-uW0i-8I28UqUMk2pPnmZ7QtdqAJBoOf0d-KQ/viewform>
]

Design Fiction for Smart Cities in Seattle and Beyond; Organized by
Konstantin Aal and Tanja Ertl

Arts-Based, Creative and Playful Approaches; Organized by Natasha Tylosky
and Priscilla Van Even

*12:30 - 1:30   Community Lunches *

Not necessarily "lunch" but a break from the formal events for various
groups to meet up. At this point we have established a community lunch for
graduate students who are working in the community and technology field and
one (or more) for people who want to keep the workshop discussions going
but we will set up other "lunches" as requested.

*1:30 - 2:30   Moving Forward with Communities and Technologies*

In this session we will consider the various discussions and themes of the
day and look towards the future. Three researchers-practitioners, Chris
Coward (University of Washington), Jasmine Jones (Berea College), and Lisa
Nathan (University of British Columbia) will also introduce ideas and
proposals that they think are needed if Communities and Technologies is to
be successful as not only a field of research but as a field that works
intentionally with others, inside and outside of academia to help address
the wicked problems of the 21st century.

-- 
Douglas Schuler
douglas at publicsphereproject.org
Twitter: @doug_schuler

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