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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">*CALL
FOR PAPERS: RGS-IBG INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, LONDON, AUGUST 26-29 2014*<br style>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Session
title: <b style>Defining the Spatiality of Co-Creation,
Collaboration and Peer Production in the Digital Age.</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Session
conveners: Penny Travlou (University of Edinburgh), Marc Garrett (Furtherfield)
and Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield/Writtle College of Design)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Discussant:
Michel Bauwens, Peer-to-Peer Foundation</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Sponsored
by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">This
session looks at novel models of creativity in reference to collaborative
practices, co-creation and peer production focusing on their spatiality within
a transglobal and digitally-fused environment. Within this context, creativity
is understood as a synergy of spaces, practices and artifacts, interlinked in
such a manner that their singularity(-ies) form an assemblage. We can consider
creativity, and subsequent knowledge formation, as forms of social interaction
rather than the outcomes of social activities. Whilst we commonly perceive
creativity as the product of the individual artist, or creative ensemble, from
this perspective creativity can also be considered an emergent phenomenon of
communities, driving change and facilitating individual or ensemble creativity.
Creativity can be a performative activity released when engaged through and by
a community. Creativity, thus, can be also regarded as an emergent property of
relations, of communities. As James Leach (2004), the British anthropologist,
suggests creativity can be proposed as a collective becoming where the creation
of new things, and the ritualized forms of exchange enacted around them,
function to “create” individuals and bind them in social groups, thus
“creating” the community they inhabit and generate new places in the landscape.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Following
this theoretical framework, we invite papers that investigate the spatiality of
novel forms of creativity presenting examples of creative landscapes. Papers
can focus and reflect on one of the following issues:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Case studies on spaces of collaborative and
co-creative practices such as hackerspaces, fablabs, co-design studios, co-working
offices, online forums and collaborative platforms, social innovation hubs, DIY
biohacking labs etc. We will particularly welcome papers that reflect on spaces
of co-authorship and co-production where </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)" lang="EN-US">authority and voice
of the persons involved may shift towards horizontal structures of power and
control.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">The methodological framework(s)
that best accommodate(s) these insights on the spatialities of creativity as an
emergent property of assemblages (e.g. collaborative & peer-to-peer
ethnography, co-design and prototyping, research by design, digital research
methods, multi-sited fieldwork).</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Insights and reflections on the current
theoretical approaches on co-creation and peer production in the digital
(network) age: collaboration, Do-It-With-Others (DIWO), hacktivism, open source
and free software movement, heterarchy, peer-to-peer culture and the commons.
Special focus will be on the linkage of the above concepts to current
theoretical debates within cultural geography.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(38,38,38)" lang="EN-US">The session will also include a fieldtrip to Furtherfield
Gallery and Furtherfield Commons in Finsbury Park. Furtherfield is a "dedicated
space for media art", providing a platform for "creating, viewing,
discussing and learning about experimental practices in art, technology and
social change" (</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org">www.Furtherfield.org</a><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">). Unlike commercial private galleries, however, <i style>Furtherfield</i> functions as a non-profit
artist-run space, aiming to "initiate and provide infrastructure for
commissions, events, exhibitions, internships, networking, participatory
projects, peer exchange, publishing, research, residencies and workshops"
(</span><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org">www.Furtherfield.org</a><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">). The scope of the field visit is to look at a
‘creative’ space that champions co-creative and peer production practices where
digital artists, audience and local communities work together through cultural
practices and creative processes </span>exploring ways to establish
contemporary commons. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Please
send abstracts of no more than 250 words by 10<sup>th</sup> February to <a href="mailto:p.travlou@ed.ac.uk">p.travlou@ed.ac.uk</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Acceptance
of the papers will be confirmed by email and they will be included in the
conference programme. Please feel free to contact us with any queries you might
have.</span></p>
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Annual International Conference 2014: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Penny
Travlou</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Lecturer
in Cultural Geography & Theory</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Edinburgh
School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">University
of Edinburgh</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Lauriston
Place</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">EH9
3DF</span></p>
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