Ouf I just went through the art as open source article, that I find really interesting while myself working on Quantify Wholeheartedly with the brussels women and free software group.
AOS develops the freaky idea that: by opening up everyone’s data there would be a possibility to create a thirdInfoscape. The past endeavor led during opensource brain cancer project created a unique situation, where solidarity was provoked by Salvatore Iaconesi engaging with its own data and making a unique case by opening it. However it also clearly appears that this is a unique experience, in no way scalable and the idea that everyone would open up all information and display every feeling is very creepy; it does not take into account existing social and economical oppressive organization who would very quickly benefit from this.
In Gilles Clements vision of a third landscape, he is first and foremost talking about degraded spaces alternative spaces that are abandoned, invisible to the mainstream, and he values those existing spaces showing their connectedness their richness and their diversity, Gilles Clement is talking to us about spaces of resistance. In the Third-Technoscape we want to engage in the same way with spaces of resistance, in order to foster their strength and build more solidarity, this is I think a preliminary position that cannot be escaped from. I really do not think there is any large scale solution that will be found by the accumulation of information or data, but really only networks of diversity can help us forward.
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