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Moderators
·Hady Ba
·Vanessa Lanari
·Gloria Origgi
·Iolanda Pensa
·Dario Taraborelli
Guest Panel
·Emanuela Adinolfi
·Katia Anguelova
·Paul Bagyenda
·Marco Belpoliti
·Frieda Brioschi
·Robert Buckley
·Jessica Colaco
·Marilyn Douala Bell
·Ntone Edjabe
·Davide Fornari
·Francesco Franceschi
·Marco Guadagnino
·Daniel Kayiwa
·Vanessa Lanari
·Lucio Lazzara
·Elena Pasquinelli
·Iolanda Pensa
·Chiara Somajni
·Andrea Wiarda
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Mobile A2K: Resources, Interfaces and Contents on Urban Transformations is an international meeting focused on African urban transformations, technology and education that will be held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in October 2009. Mobile A2K proposes to develop a format for an itinerant, modular and ever- changing exhibition. Projects and ideas by the participants to the October meeting will be previously presented on this website and discussed by a panel of invited discussants. Participation is the key to recording and accessing knowledge. Mobile A2K relies on existing resources to familiarize schools, libraries and cultural institutions with new interfaces that can help tracking and communicating urban transformations. Scholars, intellectuals and managers in the field of cognitive studies, media, education, architecture and art are invited to connect and think creatively about the opportunities provided by exhibition design, mobile phones, open platforms, copyleft and user-generated contents in the fields of formal and informal education. In order to develop the exhibition format, the meeting combines specific competencies and confronts scenarios with the concrete experience of three organisations working in Douala, Dakar and Cape Town.
Resources, interfaces and contents on urban transformations both in Africa and elsewhere are at the core of group interviews, discussions and workshops during the meeting.
A particular emphasis will be placed on developing ideas that may empower existing projects. In partnership with
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Time-Warped Maps: Mapping the mental image of a city through travel distances
Jane Battersby
Yann Kandelman
This position paper emerged from discussions around the challenge of mapping a mapless city. Given a blank slate on which to draw, how does one create a map which serves the need of the local population? What is the most appropriate means to make the city readable? Working with unmapped spaces provides a scope for thinking differently about how to represent the city.
Date of publication: 14 January 2010
What is an exhibition?
Simon Njami
We decided to use the next edition of S.U.D. (Salon Urbain de Douala) in Douala as a case study. We have tried to define the different components or ingredients that would help the event to be shaped according to the producer expectations.
Date of publication: 14 January 2010
Time-Warped Maps: Mapping the mental image of a city through travel distances
Dario Taraborelli
This position paper emerged from discussions around the challenge of mapping a mapless city. Given a blank slate on which to draw, how does one create a map which serves the need of the local population? What is the most appropriate means to make the city readable? Working with unmapped spaces provides a scope for thinking differently about how to represent the city.
Date of publication: 14 January 2010
Mobility in a Suitcase
Daniel Andler
Sara Annoni
Roberto Casati
Sara Crouse
Tania Gianesin
Bastien Guerry
Stacy M. Hardy
Marion Louisgrand
An approach to mobile knowledge can start from a very simple metaphor. In our group we explored the potentialities of the suitcase metaphor. Suitcases are the very symbol of mobility. The first portable typewrites were fitted into suitcases. Starting from the basic metaphor, we propose some scenarios for suitcases that could be used as instruments of mobile knowledge and learning.
Date of publication: 8 November 2009
OLPC and Sugar: mobility through the community
Bastien Guerry
The XO computer from OLPC not only paved the way for the emerging netbook market, but it also sent a clear message to the world: learning can be done in developing countries with high-tech mobile devices and a clever use of software resources.
Date of publication: 5 October 2009
Learning beyond electrification. Mobile technology offers opportunities for redesigning the teaching process
Roberto Casati
We conceptually investigate the implications of redesigning teaching and learning around cell phones.
Date of publication: 1 October 2009
Mobile Learning for Rural Education
Tonny Omwansa
Poor literacy remains a barrier to economic empowerment in the developing world.
As part of the Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE), this project aims to enhance access to literacy among children of school-going age in the developing world.
Date of publication: 1 October 2009
The Curriculum is Everything
Stacy M. Hardy
In the end, start simply by asking what could the curriculum be –
if it was different from the one that exists now?
if it was designed by the students who have to follow it?
if it was designed by the people who dropped out of school so that they could breathe?
Date of publication: 21 September 2009
Inclusion, exclusion and transformation - connecting technologies and the urban in South Africa
Jane Battersby
In order to consider an exhibition on urban transformations incorporating mobile phone technologies and open platforms, it is vitally important to have a sense of both what these ever changing technologies can do for user groups and what they can do to user groups and their relationships with the urban spaces they inhabit.
Date of publication: 15 September 2009
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