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Terrain Vague, Citizen Engagement & the Open City: The Roerich Garden Project

Terrain Vague, Citizen Engagement & the Open City: The Roerich Garden Project

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Le site web pour notre premier livre est en ligne! Il documente les aspirations de la communauté face à au champs en demandant comment nous nous engageons pour imaginer et créer des villes plus ouvertes. // The draft of the website for our first book is live. You'll find stories about how the community uses and advocates for this wild urban space.

Artefatica at BookCamp Toronto

Artefatica at BookCamp Toronto

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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Six months into the open publishing experiment. How's it going? In June 2009, Artefatica attended BookCamp Toronto. We started with an overview of what Artefatica is, the ideas we're toying around with, and what we're trying to accomplish. Then I talked about our first project and facilitated a 30-minute discussion on authorship, sharing, open culture, and using Creative Commons.

Artefatica featured in Maisonneuve

Sun, Oct 4, 2009

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Laurence emailed me a few weeks ago to let me know that Arefatica is featured in the Fall 2009 issue of Maisonneuve. I knew it was going to be published, but had forgotten all about it. It's a nice piece. It starts off like this: "Having spent years working in communications for international development projects, Christine Prefontaine had long suspected that there was more to be gained than lost from sharing ideas, or even from having them stolen."

Wired: The Future of Open Source

Mon, Jun 29, 2009

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The result has been an unprecedented outpouring of creative works. As of early June, for instance, more than 3.6 billion photographs had been uploaded to Flickr alone. As the best of those works are now making their way into the broader cultural landscape, they're breaking mass media's stranglehold on the ownership of meaningful content.

Filmaster in three steps: 1. Review 2. Discuss & Rate 3. Reuse & Remix

Fri, May 29, 2009

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Created as a side project by Borys Musielak and Adam Zielinski, two Polish movie addicts — who just happen to be Python programmers — Filmaster is an elegant networking site for film aficionados. It's free to join and members can run their own blog, discuss and rate movies, and receive personalized recommendations.

Steal ProPublica’s stories

Fri, May 29, 2009

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Led by the former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. And they want you to steal their work.

The Roerich Garden Project

The Roerich Garden Project, Nicole Fournier: Live Dining

The website for our first project is live.
We're still working on it but would love
your feedback and contributions.

Open Images

The Roerich Garden Project book team has
collected almost 1000 community-generated
images for you to use and share.
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