Collage & Conversation RE: “I really like Wikipedia, but I don’t trust it”

Abstract/description

A creative workshop (yes doing collage) for people to meet each other and share thoughts about the conference theme of the Power of community, diverse voices. A facilitated conversation while cutting, gluing and crafting.

What I am hoping to achieve

Space, time, connection

Space for conversation's to drift, for thoughts to be shared and advanced

Time for listening while engaged in a creative focus

Connection to other people at the table in a face to face exchange

At the end of the session, participants will have learned and shared something of each other starting with 'power of community' and ' diverse voices'
After the session, the participants will have a collage artwork (or the beginnings of one) that will remind them of the conference and people attending
Optional is techniques for transforming a collage (or a drawing, or some writing) into a 'zine' (a self-published 'magazine')

Relationship to Wiki skills or to the theme

Connection of place, of positionality, of purpose is how I am learning as a white New Zealander to be in conversation with others. This does not always come easy from my cultural upbringing. (We can talk about this too...)

I am interested in ownership of knowledge, open access and Indigenous data sovereignty and my relationship to these things as a white-person in a settler colonial society. I want to talk about the report, “I really like Wikipedia, but I don’t trust it”: Understanding First Nations peoples’ experiences using Wikipedia as readers and/or editors.

There are things I feel are the same in Aotearoa New Zealand and the following recommendations especially I would love to talk about:

Address racist and otherwise offensive or incorrect content
Re-evaluate open-access editing of First Nations content

So come with your own questions, ready to share where you are from, ready to listen, to share and also to create.

As Lianne Marie Leda Charlie says 'Collage can be a metaphor for many things'.^[1]

Also this is an experiment. A drawing together of thoughts and strands. A collage of an idea. Who knows how it will go.

Username/s

Facilitator and bringer of the collage materials: Pakoire

Session type

Workshop (Could be pre-conference or post conference too - might be better near the end)

Duration

60 minutes (or more or twice)

References

↑ Smith, Linda Tuhiwai (1999-01-01). Decolonizing methodologies : research and Indigenous peoples. Zed Books.

[1] Smith, Linda Tuhiwai (1999-01-01). Decolonizing methodologies : research and Indigenous peoples. Zed Books.

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