Lectures Format

General description

The lectures series of the open source domain are meant to put students in contact with both practitioners, to inform and inspire their own practice, and with theoreticians, so as to ground their research within an existing body of reflections common to data design, digital craft and open design. For each session,

An important aspect of the open source domain lectures is a desire to go beyond the traditional separation between the lecturer and their audience. In this conservative classroom set-up, students are often given a passive role. In order to trigger a more active engagement with the topics discussed during these lectures, as well as with the guest lecturers themselves and the open source domain community as a whole, students will be using novel collaborative note taking web applications and form small respondent groups. The purpose of this system is to put the students in a situation of focus where the information received is more likely to be retained and comprehended through the process of a self-conscious collaborative writing. In a second stage, the student groups are required to analyse their notes in order to form a question for the guest lecturers. The latter stage is two-fold: it gives an opportunity for the lecturers to correct any misunderstanding used to make sure the communication