Thinktank 0.1
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Conversations


From Monday 20th until Friday 25th the Thinktank project
organizes five conversations on different aspects of
online collaboration. Please join these talks online or
in the project space Public Space With A Roof.

Conversations take place via the chat program ARSC
(A Really Simple Chat). Log in at the indicated times to
join the exchange at http://www.think-tank.nl/arsc.
If you visit us in the project space, please bring Đ if you
have Đ your laptop and a headset. We will document the talks
on the platform http://www.think-tank.nl every day.
Here you can also contribute, comment and ask questions.



Program
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--> Monday February 20th from 3 pm
--> Look at the network / Day to day practices of
exchange: Talk with self-organized projects on
motivations, advantages and difficulties within
collaborative work, and how these relate to online
environments.
With (among others):
UniversitŠt in Grźndung (Informal University, DE)
Public Space With A Roof (artist-run space, NL)

--> Tuesday February 21st from 2pm
--> Social Exchange Networks / Social Capital
Conversation on social exchange values in artistic and
creative practices.
With (among others):
Doris Rothauer (author of KreativitŠt und Kapital, AT)
Hinrich Sachs (artist, CH/DE)
Tanguy Coenen (researcher social networking systems, BE)
Daniela Paes-Leao (artist, P/NL)

--> Wednesday 22nd from 2pm
--> Virtual Values
Can artistic collaborations propose practices that
create and negotiate values, establish trust,
make agreements, and integrate inefficiency?
With (among others):
Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist, NL)
Sandra Fauconnier (web-researcher, BE/NL)
RoŽ Cerpac (artist, NL)

--> Thursday 23rd from 3 pm
--> Heterogeneous Knowledge Groups
How to create the mutual understanding necessary for
interdisciplinary exchanges? On meeting points between
different social and professional fields.
With (among others):
Antony Hudek (researcher theory US/NL)
Kent Hansen (artist, DK)
Tanguy Coenen (researcher social networking systems, BE)
Henrik Schrat (artist, DE)

--> Friday 24th from 3 pm
--> How to design / program for participation
How does the role of the designer change in
collaborative content creation, and how does one
create and use virtual participative structures?
With (among others):
Jouke Kleerebezem (designer, FR/NL)
Auke Touwslager (media-designer, NL)
Marthe van Dessel (media-designer, BE)
Selina Bźtler, Paul Gangloff
and Matthias Kreutzer (designer, CH/FR/DE)
Sandra Fauconnier (web-researcher, BE/NL)
Richard Vijgen (designer, NL)



Contact
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Thinktank
http://www.think-tank.nl
thinktank-congress@web.de
skypename: thinktank-congress

Public Space With A Roof
Overtoom 301
Amsterdam
Tram 1 from CS to Jan Pieter Heijestraat
http://www.pswar.org



Formats
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--> ARSC
We will communicate primarily through the program ARSC,
A Really Simple Chat. Starting from short prepared
statements we will discuss different questions. ARSC can
also be used for the participating public to pose
questions. ARSC is very simple and requires no installation.
It can be tested at http://www.think-tank.nl/arsc

--> Skype
We will talk in parallel to the remote participants
through skype. Since it allows only a limited number of
participants to join in, we will also post regular
short written summaries. Record Conversations will be
summarized throughout the sessions on the platform
and updated during the conversations.

--> Platform
The platform will be used to summarize discussion rounds
as well as to create / view the profiles of discussion
partners.

--> Space
The discussion partners present in the space will also be
asked to communicate predominantly through ARSC, skype
and the platform, so that their contributions are visible
to remote partners.

--> Newsletters
Each day excerpts of the previous day's conversation are
edited and sent out as newsletters.

--> Publication
The generated materials (records, chat-histories,
newsletters) will be compiled into a publication by
March 2006 using a printing on demand format.




Virtual Reception
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--> Sunday, February 26th at 7pm
--> at http://www.think-tank.nl

We'd like to invite you to join us in the Thinktank for a 
virtual reception.
While enjoying digital drinks in a room free for all in A 
Really Simple Chat,we can take a closer look at this week's 
edited reports of a five-day long, multi-layered remote 
conversation. Should you prefer real drinks to digital ones, 
please be welcome to join us at 7 pm CET sharp at 52ˇ 22 N' 
4ˇ 53 E'in Public Space With A Roof,Overtoom 301,Amsterdam.



Thinktank conversations were held with and joined by:
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In order of appearance
Marjolein Dijkman (artist, NL)
Daniela Paes-Leao (artist, PT/NL)
Robert Burghardt (UniversitŠt in Grźndung, DE)
Kim de Groot (media designer, NL)
Ralo Mayer (Manoa Free University, AT)
Esther Polak (artist, NL)
Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander (PSWAR, NL)
Tanguy Coenen (researcher, BE)
Hinrich Sachs (artist CH/DE)
Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist, NL)
Mauricio Corbarl‡n (architect, AR)
RoŽ Cherpac (artist, NL)
Sandra Fauconnier (researcher, BE)
Henrik Schrat (artist, DE)
Kent Hansen (democratic innovation, DK)
Antony Hudek (theoretician, US/NL)
Auke Touwslager (media designer, NL)
Jouke Kleerebezem (designer, FR/NL)
Paul Gangloff, Selina Bźtler (OneDayNation, NL)
Marthe van Dessel (Bolwerk, BE)
Ingrid Stojnic (media designer, BE)
Wilfried Houjebek (socialfiction, NL)
Richard Vijgen (media-designer, NL)
and others



All conversations were hosted by Inga Zimprich and 
Elske Rosenfeld


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--> Thinktank
--> http://www.think-tank.nl



A groupware research and development project Inga Zimprich, 
project lead Elske Rosenfeld, research coordination

Advisors: Jeanne van Heeswijk, Jouke Kleerebezem

Workshops at Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam during 
February 2006 http://www.pswar.org

The communication platform is developed by Ingrid Stoijnic & 
Bert Balcaen http://www.rekalldesign.com

Publication design by Selina Bźtler, Paul Gangloff and 
Matthias Kreuzer

The research will be published in March 2006 in a POD - 
printing on demand model, inspired by http://www.metamute.com 
magazine for culture and politics after the net.

Thinktank is supported by Jan van Eyck Academie http:
//www.janvaneyck.nl and

Thinktank is guest of Het Blauwe Huis, a residency for 
the mind http://www.blauwehuis.org

Thinktank collaborates with Knosos, a software development 
project run at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Hoogeschool 
Mechelen, BE http://www.knosos.be

The groupware Thinktank will be based on http://www.drupal.org
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