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<\/a><\/div>\nNEW BOOK RELEASE: DIY CITIZENSHIP: Critical making and Social Media, MIT
\nPress, 2014, eds Matt Ratto and Megan Boler (University of Toronto).<\/p>\n
Today, DIY \u2039do-it-yourself\u2039 describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as
\nin Egypt\u00b9s \u00b3Twitter revolution\u00b2 of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new user-generated content) in order to offer political counternarratives. This book examines the usefulness and limits of DIY citizenship, exploring the diverse forms of political participation and \u00b3critical making\u00b2 that have emerged in recent years. The authors and artists in this collection describe DIY citizens whose activities range from activist fan blogging and video production to knitting and the creation of community gardens.<\/p>\n
Contributors examine DIY activism, describing new modes of civic engagement that include Harry Potter fan activism and the activities of the Yes Men. They consider DIY making in learning, culture, hacking, and the arts, including do-it-yourself media production and collaborative documentary making. They discuss DIY and design and how citizens can unlock the black box of technological infrastructures to engage and innovate open and participatory critical making. And they explore DIY and media, describing activists\u00b9 efforts to remake and reimagine media and the public sphere. As these chapters make clear, DIY is characterized by its emphasis on \u00b3doing\u00b2 and making rather than passive consumption. DIY citizens assume active roles as interventionists, makers, hackers, modders, and tinkerers, in pursuit of new forms of engaged and participatory democracy.<\/p>\n
MATT RATTO is Assistant Professor and Director of the Semaphore Research Cluster and the Critical Making Lab in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. MEGAN BOLER is Professor in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and editor of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT Press).<\/p>\n
CONTRIBUTORS
\nMike Ananny, Chris Atton, Alexandra Bal, Megan Boler, Catherine Burwell, Red Chidgey, Andrew Clement, Negin Dahya, Suzanne de Castell, Carl DiSalvo, Kevin Driscoll, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Joseph Ferenbok, Stephanie Fisher, Miki Foster, Stephen Gilbert, Henry Jenkins, Jennifer Jenson, Yasmin B. Kafai, Ann Light, Steve Mann, Joel McKim, Brenda McPhail, Owen McSwiney, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Graham Meikle, Emily Rose Michaud, Kate Milberry, Michael Murphy, Jason Nolan, Kate Orton-Johnson, Kylie A. Peppler, David J. Phillips, Karen Pollock, Matt Ratto, Ian Reilly, Rosa Reitsamer, Mandy Rose, Daniela K. Rosner, Yukari Seko, Karen Louise Smith, Lana Swartz, Alex Tichine, Jennette Weber, Elke Zobl<\/p>\n
For more information about this title visit: https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/diy-citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n * A passage from the essay, <\/i>by Emily Rose Michaud and Owen McSwiney, December 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The <\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nartists have intervened to create integrated site-specific works in
\nthe open-air studio and informal exhibition space that is the field.
\nSome of the first documented
\nactions which engaged with the field creatively and documented the
\nreclamation of a public space in the face of looming development
\nincluded the Roerich Garden
\nProject <\/i>and the
\nSprout Out Loud Guerilla Gardener’s Ensemble<\/i>.\u00a0P.sdfootnote { margin-left: 0.5cm; text-indent: -0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-size: 10pt; }P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }A:link { }A.sdfootnoteanc { font-size:The
\nRoerich Garden<\/i>
\nwas created in 2007 as a living landmark to pay homage to the
\nthreatened green space. It drew attention to the city\u2019s plans and
\nprovoked dialogue about the many ways the community used and
\ninteracted with the space. It provided a forum to gather and to
\nvalorize the space before it was forgotten in silence. The Roerich
\nSymbol is the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross. Its\u2019 three
\ncircles are said to represent art, science and religion. Russian
\nartist and cultural activist Nicholas Roerich developed it as an
\ninternationally recognized symbol to protect historical, cultural,
\nand scientifically valuable monuments. Intended to prevent aerial
\nbombing in WWII Europe, it was installed on rooftops of museums,
\nchurches and universities.<\/p>\n
\ngardeners\u2019 ensemble Sprout Out
\nLoud<\/i> occupied the southern
\nsection of the field from 2008 until 2010. Through their
\ncollaborative seed exchanges, planting sessions, and maintenance of
\nthe Roerich Garden<\/i>,
\nthey explored concepts of public space and
\nsought to encourage the
\nrelationship between urban dwellers and the land around them. Their
\ngoals included: i-stimulating citizen engagement and provoking
\ndialogue regarding the importance of the commons through workshops
\nand community events; ii- engaging with the field to document how
\npeople used and cared for the space; iii- empowering people and
\ninviting them to plant similar ideas in their own environments where
\nneeded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n2008, an initiative to document the Roerich
\nGarden Project<\/i> was launched in
\ncollaboration with Artefatica1<\/a>,
\na local open publishing project. Over the span of three years,
\nmembers of Les Amis<\/i>
\nand Artefatica collected stories from more than 40 contributors about
\nthe space\u2019s history, uses and potential. The result \u2014 an online
\nbook at roerichproject.artefati.ca<\/u><\/a>
\n\u2014 brings together texts, photos, news clippings, and archival
\nmaterials, as well as examples of similar international precedents.\u00a0\u00bb<\/div>\n
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