Prato1012-Bricolage

Prato 2012 Sub-theme 1) Bricolage in Community Informatics: planning v improvisation
With bricolage, a person takes what is at hand and ‘makes it up’ as situations emerge, much like a jazz musician, or in some cases, a witch doctor. bricolage can in fact be a highly skilled activity, a kind of anti-formalized method which occurs in conjunction with other bricoleurs who have similar characteristics at improvisation and playing ‘community riffs’?

Story telling is also am important characteristic of traditional healing or music, so how do we tell stories, whether in formal reports or digitally mediated narratives? are we working with intuition, instinct, or something else? are we ‘scientists’? philosopher-kings? magicians? technocrats? or something else?

To what degree then are some of us engaged in an ‘anti-discipline’ against the formal strictures of what is the written or contractual score? Is it possible to impart the skills that we have, or is every project or initiative a highly personal ‘riff’? do we pretend to have discipline and skills?

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