The Mazi project will carry out four pilot studies, in separate locations, in collaboration with partner organisations.
The pilot studies will provide a wide variety of examples of different instantiations of the MAZI toolkit (different types of MAZI Zones) deployed in different environments and proposing different local hybrid interactions through a combination of web application and physical elements.
The goal is to collect enough data and personal experiences that will allow us to:
• Draw useful correlations between context, design choices, challenges and objectives
• Gain complementary expertise in understanding user perspectives regarding the usage
• Compile a set of guidelines for the customisation of a MAZI node based on the context
• Provide a set of pre-configured templates for common situations
• Gain a better understanding on the concept of hybrid space design through an interdisciplinary lens
There are different variations of the general concept of participatory design and in MAZI we will experiment with different versions based on the background of the pilot leaders. More specifically, to understand better the needs of the local actors and depending on whether these are individuals or communities, we will perform different combination of the following methodologies to enable researchers and communities to learn from actual use-cases in the early stages of the process and, based on this, the iterative development of both technological infrastructures as well as applications:
• Co-design workshops
• Design of boundary objects and early-stage prototypes
• In-depth interviews with important actors
• Field research
• Cultural and Technological Probes
Most importantly, the different pilot cases will give us the opportunity to co-create with different types of actors that will be included in the process.
1. Neighborhood Academy Berlin, Germany
2. CreekNet Deptford, London
3. Kraftwerk1 Zurich, Switzerland
4. unMonastery nomadic
Patterns Workshop with Doug Schuler We were lucky to have MAZI Advisory Board member Doug Schuler pass by The Open University last week, and he kindly agreed to run a workshop introducing his ‘Liberating Voices’ Patterns language and ...
Mazi project partners at Edinburgh Napier University have developed an interactive demo exhibit, titled Network Roulette. The first public trial of the exhibit took place at the Whale Arts Centre in Edinburgh, UK, in late September as ...
All are invited to two days of public meet ups and workshops to exchange ideas and explore the DIY networks of Deptford Creek. Tuesday 20th at Hoy Kitchen on Creek Road SE8 3BU, followed by a free Lowtide Walk at Creekside Discovery ...
An article on DIY networking written by Panayotis Antoniadis of the MAZI project, is getting global attention through the Huffington Post website, and the Conversation Global, where it was originally published. The article, titled ...
Zurich, July 25-27, 2016 Event webpage (link) NetHood and INURA Zurich Institute, in the context of the MAZI project’s pilot “Kraftwerk1” hosted in Zurich two guests from Athens for a nomadic explorative workshop on ...
(From the Design Research Lab, Berlin) Social and political processes are becoming increasingly digitized and restructured by and through digital aspects. Beyond the various narratives about the “hybrid” or “smart” city, between ...
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