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，旨在庆祝当地的技能和知识，帮助社区成员珍惜和传播他们的知识，这反过来又有助于社区的稳定。该项目得到了当地社区的全力支持，并在一定程度上由社区代表指导小组领导。KWMC与艺术家Suzanne Lacy合作，已经开始捕捉电影剪辑或课程，其中居民通过活动和表演分享专业知识并共同构建知识。我们将在此基础上开发技术和技术，帮助我们扩大和学习社区技能和实践。当地知识大学将把KWMC和Knowle West社区与一个由学者、艺术家和教育工作者组成的团队聚集在一起，研究如何部署和使用技术和技术来合作开发知识，以加强我们对物理社区和数字社区之间关系的理解。我们将在一个类似大学的结构中帮助获取技能，以便向社区内外的其他人传授和宣传；个别“课程”将被整合到“学习”课程中，这些课程将被安置在“部门”和“学院”中。我们将建立一个系统，通过这个系统可以增加更多的“课程”，并且可以由贡献者改变教学结构。我们故意选择大学作为一个有争议的比喻，以引发关于什么是知识以及为什么价值被放在不同的专业领域的辩论。这些“课程”将是Knowle West居民描述如何做他们擅长的事情的电影/视频；KWMC已经捕获了可用于填充ULK的初始范例池。由此产生的ULK结构将被可视化为一个由班级、部门和院系组成的网络。我们将在一个在线网络服务中实现这样的结构，允许用户评论和上传新课程，但也允许有经验的成员调整和‘混合’ULK本身的结构，以便更好地组织或呈现学习计划。这些Web服务也将显示在布里斯托尔部署的物理设施中。除了设置学习计划外，我们还将举办一系列活动，包括在商店、图书馆和住宅等当地地点安排的研讨会，与学者和当地专家配对交谈。

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.