[node-l] PubliCamp with Critical Practice, 5th July 2pm Kennington Park

[Cinzia Cremona]

*When: Sunday 5th July, 2-5pm*
*Where: Kennington Park*

Critical Practice are planning to convene a *PubliCamp* in Kennington
Park<http://bak.spc.org/kenningtonpark>– a former common, scene of a
huge public
Chartist <http://www.chartists.net/10-April-1848.htm> gathering, enclosed
(with Royal sponsorship), and now a ‘public’ park.

We intend to explore different conceptions of the publicness - historical,
cultural, political, social, architectural and digital. We aim to develop a
shared ethic towards the notion of public goods and will not be deterred by
the disagreeable, contentious, messy, inefficient, live, improvisatory and
provisional nature of Being in Public. Public, common or shared resources
are like muscles, they become stronger with exercise.

*PubliCamp* will use a
barcamp<http://criticalpracticechelsea.org/wiki/index.php/ResourceCamp>structure,
something we have experimented with before.

BarCamps are an international network of user generated unconferences —
open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by
participants.

*They work like this:* presentations (which might aggregate into themed
sessions) are proposed in advance (see sign-up sheet below) or on on-the-day
by attendees. We then try and build themed 'sessions' or groups of related
presentations using white/flip boards, and mostly on-site. All attendees are
encouraged to present and share their expertise. At the moment we are
thinking of 10 minute presentations, with 10 minutes for
questions/discussion. We try and keep lots of notes and everyone is
encouraged to share information and experiences of the event, both live and
after the fact, via blogging, photo sharing, social bookmarking, wiki-ing,
twitter, etc.
BRING VICTUALS FOR SHARING AND BLANKETS FOR YOUR COMFORT
For more information visit http://www.criticalpracticechelsea.org

Cinzia

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