2024-06-08 –, NewYorck Room 2
Language: English
Introducing the Hacker Pedagogy methodology by presenting the book Internet, Mon Amour (Ledizioni, Milano 2020).
With the research group C.I.R.C.E. we have been developing an educative model to criticize what we call Technologies of Domination and to foster Convivial Technologies.
The Hacker Pedagogy approach is based on experiential learning. We elaborated a numbers of activities suitable for very different contexts: for teachers that want to get rid of the feeling of being relics of an analogic past; for parents scared of the risks of Internet; for kids fed up with the obsessive control of adults and for anyone who is not anymore satisfied with his/her own digital interactions.
The book Internet, Mon Amour is a hybrid between an essay and a collection of short stories in speculative science fiction frame. The stories have been collected in our workshops. The scope is to understand together our relationships with the machines that are part of our daily life. We are aware that too often we are embroiled in chains of command that are invisible to us as they are covered by layers of make-up. We are alienated from the tools that we use.
We play simulation models to foster transformation, to exercise imagination, to play together.
The talk will provide tools and insights for those who work in the educational field with kids or adults.
The book is entirely available online.
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Agnese Trocchi (Rome, Italy) writer, artist and social media manager. Trainer and teacher mentor in digital didactic at national level in Italy, she comes from a media-hacking background (Candida TV 1999/2003). In 2017 she co-founded the interdisciplinary research group C.I.R.C.E. to promote a self-aware approach to technology and social networks using the hacker pedagogy method. She runs workshop and laboratories for kids, adults and affinity groups to “follow the threads of our connections”, to uncover the hidden elements of everyday digital automatism and to invent together new procedures for an ecological relationship with machines. She is Digital Communication Manager at Disruption Network Lab