Bernelle (indiebio)
Trained as a biologist, bioprocess engineer
(PhD, University of Cape Town: Future Water Institute, South Africa)
Interests: open culture, DIY, water, toilets, metaverse
Based in São Miguel, Açores, Portugal
Wanted: A home for this Post-Doc
Running out of water
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50L per person, per day
4.5 million people
Two weeks to Day Zero!
NO WATER
WTF?!
climate change, pandemic, democracy ... !?!?!
"Crisis" of expertise
the experts are playing politics - Gil Eyal
Running out of expertise
Expertise discovers its limits when the predictables are no longer predictable.
Expertise that is based on “command and control”, is based on the idea that expertise has no limits.
Lesley Green, Environmental Humanities South
Top-down expertise doesn't work (on its own) anymore!
Building connection across boundaries
By assuming we know best, we break relationships.
Stuart Waters (paraphrased), The Source Magazine,
"Letting go of the need to know"
Planning for Playfulness
- Why? Play creates possibilities. Play as resistance - Katriina Heljakka
- Emergent game design
- ALL the player types
- Design systems; let the users generate content
- Game communities & belonging
How can play help facilitate knowledge alliances beyond "gamification"?
Open culture
Community by choice
Ideal in principle
Problematic in practice
Curiosity
Scientifically literate people, remember, were more likely to be polarised in their answers to politically charged scientific questions. But scientifically curious people were not.
Curiosity brought people together in a way that mere facts did not.
Tim Harford
Cultivating Curiosity
Suspend taboo;
Replace judgement with curiosity (play)
How can we build tools, and games to encourage this?
How do we unlock the visual power?
- Open data provision
- Structured data
- Data format: The platform
- Data representation: The tool
- (Tooling for) The game(s)
Not "the Metaverse", but illustrates how we see the Metaverse working.
Open data provision
ODI = open data infrastructures, like Copernicus, EMODNet, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia ...
CDP = community data platform. Private, bounded, local.
open data contributions are like user generated content in games?
IOI: Industry Of Integrations, using IPSME
designed to transform gaming
player-driven ecosystem
build and monetize integrations,
bridging diverse platforms
dissolving sandbox boundaries.
IOI for science
designed to transform expertise
citizen-driven ecosystem
build and monetize integrations,
bridging diverse scientific silo's
dissolving expertise boundaries.
(Tooling for) The game(s)
Using the platform for tooling to bring physical world elements into games
A transformed society?
designed to transform society
citizen player-driven ecosystems
build and monetize integrations,
bridging diverse expert, scientist, political, geographic silo's ... AND game platforms
dissolving all sorts of boundaries!
Can you imagine what magic could emerge then?
DUT AquaSavvy visual canvas tool
Challenge: Modern water systems are mostly invisible.
Complex data, constantly changing.
Objective: Visual, interactive, web-based platform and tool to highlight and explore these challenges
People-centric "digital twin" through a water-focused lens
Case studies: Orø, Denmark, and Bursa, Türkiye
ALSO: Wider use of the tool as well as a competition - collab potential!
Get in touch!
- Wanted: (Post-Doc) Home
- Wanted: Creative Consortium
bernellev@gmail.com
indiebio on the socials - Discord etc.
How: Social aspects