Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/Bank of Common Knowledge HowTo
- Contact: Olivier (olivier at platoniq dot net)
- Team:
- Hosts: Platoniq
- Proposed 'space' or theme: Local tent at the square
Summary
Bank of Common Knowledge (BCK) is a project initiated in 2006 by the catalan organization Platoniq in Barcelona, a collective platform for knowledge exchange and mutual education. BCK is organized as an open source model of knowledge transfer, a laboratory for inventing and trying out new forms of production, education, organization and distribution, involving new roles for producers and receivers, experts and amateurs, teachers and students…
BCK turns the model of coordinated common production typical of free software in the framework of a project of cultural production into practice by using dynamics of co-operation, process documentation and responsibility shared by the participating members.
The Market of the Bank of Common Knowledge attempts to cover a wide range of topics and materialize them through free workshops and manuals. A gathering of transgressive and generous experiences by individuals and communities who put into practice various forms of autonomy in daily life.
Those exchanges are recorded and published online under a copyleft license in order to guarantee that knowledge keep on circulating.
BCK methodologies have derived Such into innovative experiences lived in secondary schools from Seville and in several NGOs from Yogyakarta (Indonesia); or Ideazoka, the market of ideas addressed to cooperatives produced in collaboration with the University of Mondragon (Basque Country); or the creation of urban labs in collaboration with CitiLab-Cornellà... All of them are radically complementary ecosystems sharing a single value: the productive commons.
What do you want to achieve? (goal)
We propose an open session where the bank of common knowledge methodologies are shared and tested
Who should come? How many? For how long? (audience)
How many? From 15 to 30
For how long?
50 mins
What will they do when they get there? (activities)
The session delivers an expanded manual of how to build a bck node, which can also inspire educational initiatives to build and "shake" communities of cooperation. They'll be first asked to play the "social Tagging Game", one of the dynamics that has rised from the necesity of apllying the concept of folksonomy, a form of common categorization by means of designations and key words in a space without hierarchies or predetermined family relationships when starting a new BCK node. This game, and other games taht will be shown, belong to a series of methodologies and experimental strategies intended for the establishment and dynamisation of a local Common Bank of Knowledge. The game series is called P2Pedagogy and includes different exercises, in which methodologies of free software, P2P systems and social networks are explained or applied to processes of collective organization, production and common learning.