Periodic Reporting for period 2 - NesT (Networking Ecologically Smart Territories)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2024-03-01 do 2025-02-28
The principal aim of Networking Ecologically Smart Territories (NEST) is to test the hypothesis that digital diversification, which will be explored as noodiversification and technodiversification as the conditions of resilience of human societies, holds the key to a reinvention of contemporary, proletarianising, industrial economics. NEST links academic research with social and artistic practices to carry out theoretical inquiry on the relationship between digital technologies, living systems and the production of knowledge within territorialized laboratories forming networks of localities. The project is based on contributory research: a method combining traditional academic, artistic, technological and industrial approaches with urban/rural research practices in order to constitute territorial communities integrating different forms of knowledge (practical and theoretical). The heart of the project is a mobility program for an international exchange of researchers and staff across academic and non-academic sectors of NEST actors, which allows the articulation of local territorial situations with planetary concerns in the context of the Anthropocene.
There are 3 academic Work Packages. By extending the critique of digital technology already undertaken by the Digital Studies Network to reconsider the foundations of computer theory in relation to the concepts of locality, ne-gentropy, anti-entropy, data economy and networked AI by developing the concepts of technodiversity and cosmotech-nics (WP1). To experiment and introduce new forms of collective responsibility through Territorial experimentation, enabling new forms of citizen participation in local governance through contributory research (WP2). To experiment and develop a network of territorial laboratories of digital contributory research in order to study the constraints acting on life and the archipelagos of ecological niches by species inhabiting the same territoires, with a view to generating local understandings of living singularities and functional cooperations between territorial-laboratories and academics in view of the planetary threat. (WP3).
The overall objective is to test the hypothesis that digital diversification, which is being explored as noodiversification and technodiversification as the conditions of resilience of human societies, holds the key to a reinvention of contemporary, proletarianising, industrial economics.
There are 3 academic Work Packages. By extending the critique of digital technology already undertaken by the Digital Studies Network to reconsider the foundations of computer theory in relation to the concepts of locality, ne-gentropy, anti-entropy, data economy and networked AI by developing the concepts of technodiversity and cosmotech-nics (WP1). To experiment and introduce new forms of collective responsibility through Territorial experimentation, enabling new forms of citizen participation in local governance through contributory research (WP2). To experiment and develop a network of territorial laboratories of digital contributory research in order to study the constraints acting on life and the archipelagos of ecological niches by species inhabiting the same territoires, with a view to generating local understandings of living singularities and functional cooperations between territorial-laboratories and academics in view of the planetary threat. (WP3).
The overall objective is to test the hypothesis that digital diversification, which is being explored as noodiversification and technodiversification as the conditions of resilience of human societies, holds the key to a reinvention of contemporary, proletarianising, industrial economics.
ALL project objectives and tasks have been successfully reached and deliverables have been submitted and approved.
At the end of tthe project NEST achiveved 96% secondments implementation.
The project has developed the theoretical framework for noodiversification, this has been done through the first WP activity in relation to the alternative histories of computation and the development of the conceptual framework for digital hermeneutics. Secondly, forms of exploration of technodiverification with the experimentation between Art, Science and Technology which has taken place through discursive platforma and exhibitions. The experimental platforms took place through localised territories (in Guayaquil, Saint Seine Denis). The exploration of the methods and methodologies of contributory research have been formalised resulting in the protocols and methods of contributory research published as a toolkit of contributory research and platform.
Website: https://www.nestproject.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)
At the end of tthe project NEST achiveved 96% secondments implementation.
The project has developed the theoretical framework for noodiversification, this has been done through the first WP activity in relation to the alternative histories of computation and the development of the conceptual framework for digital hermeneutics. Secondly, forms of exploration of technodiverification with the experimentation between Art, Science and Technology which has taken place through discursive platforma and exhibitions. The experimental platforms took place through localised territories (in Guayaquil, Saint Seine Denis). The exploration of the methods and methodologies of contributory research have been formalised resulting in the protocols and methods of contributory research published as a toolkit of contributory research and platform.
Website: https://www.nestproject.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)
Scientific Breakthroughs in relation to the state of the art.
NEST holds that a fundamental innovative reconsideration of the nature of computational reason is needed.
Discourses on smartness have developed over the course of the last decade, this includes the internet of things, ubiquitous
computing, smart cities, data economy and machine learning (Pfaltz 2014) – this discourse is currently dominated by the
strategic marketing of artificial intelligences. The novel approach of this strategy, which first and foremost consists of
new types of calculations performed on big data, constitutes the most characteristic development of what in this context
could be termed reticular informatics, in reference to Giuseppe Longo, and reticular writing, as defined by Clarisse
Herrenschmidt. By moving beyond the state of the art NEST worked to demonstrate that through this evolution, technological
systems, which submit logic to calculation – and with it logos, and thereby noesis – become the “megaorganisms” in which humans
presently live – everywhere in the world. These techno-logical mega-organisms, which
lead to a generalised loss of knowledge (proletarianisation), pretend to pilot human life almost entirely through their
calculations –both on the individual level (psychic) and a collective level (social). But these calculations are operated
according to the interests of stockholders of these mega-organisms: they are indeed the technospheric firms, especially
in North-America and China. This new reticular arrangement between a technical system, which has become entirely
computational, and social organization, constantly reticulated and piloted by technical systems themselves, requires a
fundamental reconsideration of the nature of computational reason – that is, the virtues and vices of a functional and
generalized submission of decision-making to such apparatus of calculation. It is particularly important at a moment where the European Union,
on the one hand, intends to develop specific policies in the field of artificial intelligences, and, on the other, prioritizes investment to fight against the toxic aspects of the
Anthropocene (of which climate change and the current viral vulnerability are the most prominent aspects of a system
with many other weaknesses). This is why the first axis (Rethinking Computer Theory) of this project was devoted
to reinterpret the potentialities and limits of automatic calculation from the point of view of mathematical theories of
calculability, first order cybernetics (of Norbert Wiener) and information theory simultaneously.
NEST consortium recommends that the work on t contributory research continues after
the life of the project. The assumptions behind contributory research are in line with those
in relation to the European Green Deal and, additionally, they respond to the challenges
related to work/life automation. A continuous effort must be put into translating these
assumptions into territorial research practices and local policies that might contribute
to a positive social change in this context.
NEST holds that a fundamental innovative reconsideration of the nature of computational reason is needed.
Discourses on smartness have developed over the course of the last decade, this includes the internet of things, ubiquitous
computing, smart cities, data economy and machine learning (Pfaltz 2014) – this discourse is currently dominated by the
strategic marketing of artificial intelligences. The novel approach of this strategy, which first and foremost consists of
new types of calculations performed on big data, constitutes the most characteristic development of what in this context
could be termed reticular informatics, in reference to Giuseppe Longo, and reticular writing, as defined by Clarisse
Herrenschmidt. By moving beyond the state of the art NEST worked to demonstrate that through this evolution, technological
systems, which submit logic to calculation – and with it logos, and thereby noesis – become the “megaorganisms” in which humans
presently live – everywhere in the world. These techno-logical mega-organisms, which
lead to a generalised loss of knowledge (proletarianisation), pretend to pilot human life almost entirely through their
calculations –both on the individual level (psychic) and a collective level (social). But these calculations are operated
according to the interests of stockholders of these mega-organisms: they are indeed the technospheric firms, especially
in North-America and China. This new reticular arrangement between a technical system, which has become entirely
computational, and social organization, constantly reticulated and piloted by technical systems themselves, requires a
fundamental reconsideration of the nature of computational reason – that is, the virtues and vices of a functional and
generalized submission of decision-making to such apparatus of calculation. It is particularly important at a moment where the European Union,
on the one hand, intends to develop specific policies in the field of artificial intelligences, and, on the other, prioritizes investment to fight against the toxic aspects of the
Anthropocene (of which climate change and the current viral vulnerability are the most prominent aspects of a system
with many other weaknesses). This is why the first axis (Rethinking Computer Theory) of this project was devoted
to reinterpret the potentialities and limits of automatic calculation from the point of view of mathematical theories of
calculability, first order cybernetics (of Norbert Wiener) and information theory simultaneously.
NEST consortium recommends that the work on t contributory research continues after
the life of the project. The assumptions behind contributory research are in line with those
in relation to the European Green Deal and, additionally, they respond to the challenges
related to work/life automation. A continuous effort must be put into translating these
assumptions into territorial research practices and local policies that might contribute
to a positive social change in this context.