smart village questionnaire

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Smart Village Bookshelf:

Creating Collective Smart Village  Memories

As energy for Evolutionary Conversations

 

Started by roger f malina 3/2/2024

 

Every Saturday at 9am Dallas time members of the ArtSciLab Smart village meet on the Concordia zoom room.

 

Today, March 2 2024 three of us met ( Ricardo, Tommy, Roger) for an hour. And Roger noticed that we had each referred to knowledge sources ( eg books, videos…) that we named specifically to buttress an argument

 

Ricardo mentioned David Epstein’s “Range” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exn-pQ9Nw3E that emerged from his book https://davidepstein.com/the-range/ .

 

Tommy mentioned Kinneman’s book Thinking Fast Thinking Slow https://www.shortform.com/summary/thinking-fast-and-slow-summary-daniel-kahneman?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Book%20-%20Thinking,%20Fast%20and%20Slow%20-%20Phrase&utm_term=thinking%20fast%20thinking%20slow%20summary&utm_content=85281412243039&msclkid=49336fe7021c16bee4160a045af5ae69 .

 

Roger mentioned the influential role of Marcel Proust’s novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust

 

This triggered in Roger’s mind a podcast he hard heard about Charles Darwin’s book shelf in his home becoming accessible on line: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/darwinlibrary

 

Darwin’s Virtual Library: History & Scope top

“Darwin’s Library is a digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin. In 1908, Charles Darwin’s son Francis transferred what he called the ‘Darwin Library’ to the Botany School at Cambridge University under the care and control of the Professor of Botany, A. C. Seward.¹   As Francis put it, ‘The library of Charles Darwin has now found a permanent home in his University…’ Of course the library of Charles Darwin is more than the collection of the works he owned at his death. As Francis already appreciated in 1908, ‘The chief interest of the Darwin books lies in the pencil notes scribbled on their pages, or written on scraps of paper and pinned to the last page.’²   Darwin did read both systematically and with great intensity. He read to gather evidence, to explore and define the research possibilities of his evolutionary ideas, and to gauge reactions to his own publications. In fact, reading was a major tool in Darwin’s scientific practice. Thus what our digital reconstruction of the Darwin Library delivers is the ability to retrace and reduplicate Darwin’s reading of a wealth of materials.”

So

As part of the smart village methodology we propose to compile a map of the favorite sources of ‘knowledge’ for each villager, and then analyse the map to see which sources are influential for several villagers. We can then compare the maps for other connected villages and analyse the overlaps. We will be using some of Erin Meyer’s Culture Mapping methodologies. https://erinmeyer.com/

Culture Mapping terminology and book are a shared book on all three of these villagers books shelf.

Until we start analysing recordings of our village meetings, we will use the questionnaire method- knowing that the medium can be the message without knowing it. That discussion came up because we are all filling out a culture map questionnaire that Tommy started, and  Ricardo and I problematised the way we had to put our answers in excel boxes that lacked blobbiness as laura Kim’s book Entering the Bolbbosphere https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/entering-blobosphere-laura-hyunjhee-kim expounds on

Blobology has emergent definitions:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49359137

But the metaphor might be relevant to how smart villages interconnect.

So since we dont know how to blobify excel ( tell us how to ) please answer these questions

 

1. Name some sources ( books, digital media) that you mention in conversations with your friends and colleagues several times a year.
2. What languages do you consult your sources in: eg french, spanish, german…
3. If I walked into your home or office apart from boks and digital media would you list as influencing your thinking. Note in this case an art work or furniture of a particular kind - eg a hammoc- can be a source of influence.

 

My answers to myself are ( not in priority order, and just a start)( note the list can change with time)

1. Books:
   1. Marcell Proust a la recherche du temps perdu, french
   2. Laura Kim Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs by Laura Hyunjhee Kim / Civil Coping Mechanisms / Paperback / 100 pages / 978-1948700184 / June 17, 2019 (english)
   3. Kahneman , thinking fast thinking slow. English
   4. https://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Smart-Villages-Innovation/dp/1732135363 english
   5.  
2. Other Village Sources
   1. 1932 box in dallas home made by my father frank malina for his mother caroline marek malina.

 

Smart Village connection: in a village you make many things yourself rather than buying them.