What is Critical Citizen Science? (A Dialogue - Part 1) (avec images) · danmcquillan · Storify
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royalist: what is this critical citizen science of which you speak?
nomad: it is a way of seeing and a way of being critical; it is these fused in to a practice.
royalist: be more specific! what does it consist of? and why now?
nomad: it consists of these things; crowdmapping, open hardware sensors, emerging hackerspaces, the internet of things. it breathes through the critical pedagogy of Paulo Freire and critical conviviality of Ivan Illich. it will make your eyes roll...
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What is Critical Citizen Science? (A Dialogue - Part 2) (avec images) · danmcquillan · Storify
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When we last spoke, you conveyed a reasonable sense of gathering innovation around crowdmapping, open hardware sensors and the internet of things. I’m even persuaded that some communities will be proactive in their citizen science, not just enrolled in an establishment activity. Why pepper the whole thing with a mystical metaphysics about Royal Science and Smooth Science?
nomad: Starting from the technical conditions of daily life, critical citizen science will come to question the nature of science itself. “The problem is not with science’s actual, particular positive claims; but rather with its pretensions to universality, its need to deny the validity of all claims and practices other than its own” says Shaviro, summarising Stengers. In the practice of critical citizen science, this challenge will be come inescapable.