Constructions for the Cultural Cornucopia

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Constructions Alek Tarkowski Cornucopia for the Cultural

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Slides for my presentation at TedxWarsaw (on 5th of March 2010), about the types of cultural institutions we need at a time when our culture is becoming a cornucopia, due to the internet.

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Constructions

Alek Tarkowski

Cornucopia

for the Cultural

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KornukopiaFot. future15pic@Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

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Map: OpenStreetmap, CC BY-SA

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Map: OpenStreetmap, CC BY-SA

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Governments of the Industrial

World, you weary giants

of flesh and steel,

I come from Cyberspace,

the new home of Mind.

John Perry Barlow

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Since we lack access to the

sea, we lack this experience

of vastness [...].

Instead, we had to have

a sea of information.

Bohumil Hrabal

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The download doesn’t look

like anything because

it physically does not exist.

It is nothing.

Owen Ashforth (CFTPA)

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Nothing

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Immutable, mobile

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Mutable, immobile

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The internet turns our

cultural institutions from

nouns to verbs.

To paraphrase Cory Doctorow

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Collaboration

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Communication

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Openness

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Sharing

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Sustainability

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Durability

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Heritage

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Curation

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Craft

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Places

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If it isn’t digital, it’s dead!

But if it isn’t analogue,

then it’s not alive.

Christopher Adams

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