INTRODUCTION
the community is organized from the communication
Manuel Delgado 2008
Online participation practices represent a consolidation methodology within the management and production strategies of the common. Administrations around the world are developing experiments to include citizens in political decisions through social networks and web tools generated ad hoc.
However, ioñuol, all these emerging instruments can reach greater if consider them as digital mediators in the relationship between people and the environment if they are implemented in the urban physical space.
HYPERMAD is a project proposed by a multidisciplinary team of the School of Architecture of Madrid with the collaboration of Temporary Atmospheres opens the possibility of a new hybridization methodology between the physical and digital environment, aimed at greater citizen inclusion in the management of the common and the opening of qualified spaces for the exchange of visions and the resolution of conflicts in urban landscape
It is aimed at administrations that want to strengthen their contact with citizens, strengthening the active and proactive role of neighbors.
The common factor in emerging trends in public space configuration is technological mediation for communication and interaction.
-Angelique Traschana
SUMMARY
The project is based on writing as a tool for dialogue as it fulfills a double function: the first, communicative, to write so that some people interact with each other; and, the second, representative, write to record and disseminate knowledge, ideas, feelings, represent or recreate us in the objects of our thinking.
It proposes to activate a round-trip feedback between the debate that takes place in writing in the virtual environment and its verbalization in the physical space.
The dynamics of the project is based on the identification of a topic of significant citizen interest inherent in urban development, the activation of a specific debate channel on the Decide Madrid platform, the face-to-face sharing on the state of the discussion and the synthesis of The controversy generated.
TEAM
HYPERMAD is a collaborative project promoted by a transdisciplinary team of the Madrid School of Architecture, gathered around the Master in Architecture and Communication and the Hypermedia research group.
It is a work group formed by professionals from architecture, journalism, design and the arts; experts in research and experimentation in communication and emerging social practices.
DRAFT
HYPERMAD is developed in three phases: one for preparing the debate, one for meeting and one for evaluating results.
In the first phase, a topic of the Madrid urban development debate is chosen and opening a debate thread on the Decide Madrid platform. From the week before the face-to-face meeting, citizen participation in the debate is encouraged by disseminating it on social networks and in the press.
A face-to-face meeting is convened in the space object of the discussion, conditioned so that the contents of the Decide Madrid section opened during the preparation week can be displayed on a digital screen or can be projected.
With the support of the projection, the exchange of ideas is energized based on the interventions that have stood out most in the open thread in the Decide Madrid forum.
The methodology adopted may vary depending on the topic of debate: the opposite thesis – thesis confrontation, the dramatized reading or the classic question-answer dynamic.
Throughout the session a person is responsible for publishing the most prominent content on the web and participants can do the same, building a live collaborative act.
The third phase consists of the organization of the contents and their publication as a “manifesto of the controversy”. It is a synthesis work that the organizing team writes and publishes to record what happened and allow easy consultation.
The objective of the project is to experiment around new practices for exchanging hybrid ideas between the digital and the physical, prototyping a methodology and an infrastructure that empower citizen participation.
FINANCING
HYPERMAD is a non-profit project, aimed at the production of social capital and measurable benefits for citizenship in terms of greater participation of neighbors and neighbors in urban planning decisions, dissemination of new debate practices, mediation and conflict resolution and citizen empowerment and self-training.