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title: Physical networks lang: en
Next, the audience was invited into the floor area and assembled themselves into networks of different configurations.
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.
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.
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) events.