SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON ENGAGING THE BOTTOM-UP-OPENSOURCE-TACTICAL CITY

 Old paradigms of organisation are being upturned and challenged by a fluency in participation enabled by pervasive digital tools. Large complex systems like our cities stand to benefit as well as be threatened by the capacities this represents for new kinds of distributed and opensource organisation.

What are the possible models of operation, governance, or interrelation that better merge the potential of bottom-up-opensource-distributed-tactical-informal-crowd phenomena within existing systems, whether in the service sector, the city, or the networked community?

In this special panel, we will hear from three speakers reflecting and speculating on participation systems, urban informatics, user-led urbanism, and policy in the USA, Japan, and Australia.

Panelists:

Mimi Zeiger, a Los Angeles-based journalist and critic. She covers art, architecture, urbanism and design for a number of publications including the New York Times, Domus, Dwell, and Architect, where she is a contributing editor. She’s lectured internationally on "the interventionist toolkit", a series of articles on alternative urbanist practice she wrote for Places Journal.
http://mimizeiger.com @loudpaper 

Satoru Yamashiro, a Tokyo-Dalian-Shanghai based architect and community-led design activist. His work crosses large- and temporary-scale architecture, community participation, urban revitalisation, installation art, research and education. For over twenty years he has been exploring the intersection of participatory urbanism and conventional development governance.
http://buildinglandscape.com http://cityswitch.jp @syamashiro0531 

Michelle Tabet, an urban strategist and designer. Michelle leads Arup’s urban informatics team in Sydney. She is interested in understanding the relationship between the built environment and the information economy. As they become increasingly interlinked, there is the potential to make a big impact on the way we live and work – leading to opportunities for social innovation.
http://thoughts.arup.com/post/userposts/79