The University of Local Knowledge: Empowering Community Experts Across Physical-Virtual Boundaries

“地方知识大学”（ULK）是一个社区项目，旨在庆祝当地技能和知识，帮助社区成员重视和传播他们的知识，这反过来又有助于社区稳定。该项目得到当地社区的全力支持，并由社区代表指导小组部分领导。KWMC与艺术家Suzanne Lacy合作，开始拍摄电影片段，或“课堂”，居民通过活动和表演分享专业知识和共同构建知识。我们将在此基础上开发技术和技巧，帮助我们扩大和研究社区技能和实践。地方知识的大学将汇集KWMC和诺勒西社区与学者，艺术家和教育工作者的团队，研究技术和技术的部署和使用，以协作开发知识，以提高我们对物理和数字社区之间的关系的理解。我们将帮助捕捉在一个类似大学的结构，以教和宣传社区内外的其他人的技能;个别“类”将被组装成“研究”，将被安置在“部门”和“院系”的方案。我们将建立系统，通过这些系统可以添加更多的“类”，并可以通过贡献者改变教学结构。我们选择大学作为一个有争议的隐喻，以引发关于什么构成知识以及为什么价值观被置于不同专业领域的辩论。这些“课程”将是诺勒西部居民描述如何做他们擅长的事情的电影/视频; KWMC已经捕获了一个初始的例子池，可以用来填充ULK。由此产生的ULK结构将被可视化为班级，部门和学院的网络。我们将在一个在线网络服务中实现这种结构，并允许用户评论和上传新课程，但也允许有经验的成员适应和“混搭”ULK本身的结构，以便更好地组织或介绍学习计划。这些Web服务也将在部署在布里斯托内的物理安装中显示。除了配置学习计划，我们将召开一系列活动，包括在当地地点安排的“研讨会”会议，包括商店，图书馆和家庭，学者和当地专家在对话中配对。

The 'University of Local Knowledge' (ULK) is a community project that celebrates local skills and knowledge, helping community members to value and spread their knowledge which in turn will aid community stability. The project has the full support of the local community, and is led in part by a steering group of community representatives. Working with artist Suzanne Lacy, KWMC has begun to capture film clips, or 'classes', in which residents share expertise and co-construct knowledge through events and performances.We will build on this foundation by developing technologies and techniques that help us scale up and study community skill and praxis. The University of Local Knowledge will bring together KWMC and the Knowle West community with a team of academics, artists and educators to study the deployment and use of technologies and techniques to collaboratively develop knowledge to enhance our understanding of the relationships between physical and digital community. We will help capture skills in a University-like structure in order to teach and publicise to others within and beyond the community; individual 'classes' will be assembled into programmes of 'study' that will be housed in 'departments' and 'faculties'. We will build systems through which further 'classes' can be added and pedagogic structures can be changed by contributors. We have chosen University as a deliberately contentious metaphor to provoke debate around what constitutes knowledge and why values are placed on different spheres of expertise. These 'classes' will be films/videos of Knowle West residents describing how to do something that they are an expert at; KWMC have captured an initial pool of examples which can be used to populate ULK. The resulting ULK structure will be visualised as a network of classes, departments and faculties. We will implement such structures within an online web service, and allow users both to comment and upload new classes, but also allow experienced members to adapt and 'mash up' the structure of ULK itself in order to better organise or present programmes of study. These web services will also be displayed in physical installations deployed within Bristol. In addition to configuring programmes of study we will convene a series of events including a conference with 'seminars' arranged in local sites, including shops, libraries and homes, with academics and local experts paired in conversation.