Giles Lane has published an essay on the new Urban Tapestries programme, Social Tapestries.
"The Social Tapestries experiments will offer a platform to devise and understand actual uses of public authoring by people going about their everyday lives. By designing and implementing a series of experiments in real world situations, Social Tapestries will aim to reveal the potential of public authoring to:
• create and support relationships that transcend existing social and cultural boundaries;Experiments are being devised for:
• enable the development of new social and creative practices based around place, identity and community;
• reveal the limits and potential costs (as well as benefits) that such technologies also imply.
• education: looking at how local informal knowledges can be gathered, represented, understood and shared by schoolchildren.
• community arts and regeneration: working with artists and arts organisations as facilitators for local communities in regeneration contexts.
• social housing: exploring how new forms of neighbourliness could emerge where existing physical structures (such as tower blocks) create barriers.
• local government: assessing the impacts on communities of locally specific information gathered by municipal and police services and possibilities for interaction."
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