Parti.cipate+co.llaborate

Abstract

Due to a large number of high-grade articles submitted to V!RUS in August 2018, the journal's Editorial Committee decided to keep the theme of parti.cipate+co.llaborate in the next issue, number 18 [semester 01.2019], thus allowing the publication of more selected works, in two consecutive volumes.

The journal's next call for papers will be released in May 2019 with a new theme.

The following text, from the call for papers of August 2018, expresses the current understanding and expectations of the Editorial Committee and Nomads.usp researchers on the subject.

parti.cipate+co.llaborate

While the word "participate" (lat. part + cipere) is composed of notions of part, being part of, and grasping, taking (lat. cipere), indicating a voluntary and determined action, the word "collaborate" unites the meaning of laborare - to work, to feel pain, to tire - to the collective condition given by the prefix co - together, with.

The seventeenth edition of V!RUS journal proposes a reflection on contemporary processes of collective construction of knowledge in different areas, its practices and theoretical approaches, through transdisciplinary, multicultural actions, and those involving non-academic actors or communities. We have connected two strong ideas - participate and collaborate -, both full of dialogic sense, aiming to guide the discussion on each of them, on the topic, and about what connects them, or would be able to connect.

In this issue, we are interested in composing a mosaic of understandings about forms of participation and collaboration, their contexts, methodologies, products and limits, especially on the following topics:

+ Community participation in public decision - making processes

+ Collaborative processes in architecture and urbanism, design, visual arts, performing arts, body arts, cinema, music, design, among others

+ Collaborative research processes: research networks, inter-area and transdisciplinary processes, university-community partnerships, methodological issues, among others

+ Collective creation processes and the notions of authorship and responsibility, licensing and free software

+ Theoretical-critical foundations on participation, collaboration, sharing, cooperation, conversation, and related concepts

+ Holistic understandings: systems, cybernetics and complexity

+ Digital media in collaborative design and collective creation processes

+ Collaborative features in BIM, parametric design and digital fabrication

+ Participatory and collaborative processes related to cultural heritage and the construction of collective memories

+ Urban interventions, public management and community participation

+ Information and Communication Technologies and community participation

+ Day-to-day sharing: shared production of information on urban life aspects, mobility and event mobile applications, among others

+ Shares via the Internet: virtual drives for storage and collaborative work, social networks, mobile applications, among others

+ Moderation, monitoring and manipulation: political aspects in collaborative platforms and social networks

+ Big date, privacy and surveillance

Public policies aiming at participation and collaboration in several areas

+ Political representativeness and participation: citizen mandates, emerging models of participation, among others

+ Case studies, historical reviews

IMPORTANT DATES

July 2018: Call for papers
August 28th, 2018: Deadline for receipt of submissions
December 2018: Release of V!RUS 17 "parti.cipate+co.llaborate vol. 1"
May 2019: Release of V!RUS 18 "parti.cipate+co.llaborate vol. 2"