title: Physical networks
lang: en

> Next, the audience was invited into the floor area and assembled themselves into networks of different configurations.
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> This was a fun session, and made easier by the informality and low-tech aspect of the tools. Once people assembled, configurations changed, people tried things like sending a *Like* or a *Smiley* across the network.
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> The first portion of this was network-assembly and data-transfer, the second portion was to have three pre-determined actors—Facebook, The State, and The Government—intervene in the existing networks and reconfigure them for their own interests. So, after a few minutes of self-organizing, the larger actors entered. The picture on the right, below, represents Facebook as a central data collection point. On the left, the groups kneeled, to show the subordinate agency of their networks when under the control of a government.
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> <cite>*[Thoughts On Workshop Design](http://blog.fabled.net/sfpc,learning,workshop/thoughts-on-workshop-design)* ([cache](/david/cache/066bf62d8c62ec44745481121144a4a9/))</cite>

I really like that idea of dealing with rather complex concepts and then being able to visualize these at a human scale.

Very inspiring for future ([small](/david/stream/2018/04/29/)) events.