Wikipraça: reinventing the public space of Sao Paulo

Authors

  • Bernardo Gutiérrez #códigoaberto_cc (blog)

Keywords:

V!10, do it yourself, Public space, Digital culture, Cultural action

Abstract

How would be a square that works like Wikipedia? How to read an urban space where anyone could add paragraphs, objects, like a Wikipedia entry? How would be done the collective management of its content? Who would write the rules? What processes would activate the collective intelligence? Since the birth of Wikipedia, the wiki term (meaning 'fast' in Hawaiian language) has become synonymous of collective, collaborative. The encyclopedia made by few people is vertical. Wikipedia, cooked by many, is collective intelligence. Interestingly, in recent years, wiki participatory imaginary permeates everything. From economics to culture, from education to ecology . Although we can not speak of wikiurbanism as a trend or a consolidated method, there are several practices that bind the wiki and the urban. (To be continued in PDF)

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Author Biography

Bernardo Gutiérrez, #códigoaberto_cc (blog)

He is Scientist of Information, journalist, writer and networks researcher. He founded the Future Media network, which coordinates the project Wikipraça Arouche - # WikipraçaSP. He collaborates in some of the most popular newspapers and magazines in the world, like National Geographic, GEO, El País, Público (Lisbon), La Repubblica (Rome), Playboy, Vogue, Esquire, Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), Clarin (Buenos Aires), among others.

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Published

2014-12-10

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 10 (2015): V!10 DIY//Do It Yourself!

Section

Tapete