Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford

Jinxia's and Piero's notes

Chronological


September 10: Posted interview with Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (J & P)
September 3: Posted interview with Steve Omohundro (J & P)
September 2: Posted interview with Allen Weiner (J & P)
August 28: Posted interview with Ade Mabogunje (J & P)
August 27: Posted interview with Chris Bennett (J & P)
August 26: Posted interview with Ken Taylor (J & P)
August 22: Posted interview with Robert Sapolsky (J & P)
August 22: Interviewed Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (J & P)
August 21: Interviewed Ajay Divakaran (P)
August 21: Conference in collaboration Continuing Studies (P)
August 21: Interviewed Parag Khanna (J & P)
August 21: Interviewed Steve Omohundro (J & P)
August 21: Posted summary of Howard Rheingold's work (J)
August 19: Posted Paolo Parigi's interview (J)
August 18: Organized interviews in a possible book structure - submitted to Mark (J)
August 18: Table of contents (sequence of interviews) [ask if you want access to the video that explains it]
August 16: Interviewed Ken Taylor (J & P)
August 12: Sent Rosanna Guadagno first draft of article on her (J & P)
August 9: Interviewed Robert Sapolsky (J & P)
August 8: Posted Mark Nelson on Cooperative Design Thinking in Peace Innovation (J)
August 8: Posted Mark Nelson's and Robert Horn's conversation about the "Peace Design Loop" (J)
August 6: Posted "Can big data measure and improve peace?", an introduction to the P.I.L. in Chinese (J)
August 4: Interviewed again Chris Bennett (J & P)
August 2: Posted "Between God and Cop", another introduction to the P.I.L. in Chinese (J)
July 30: Piero's notes on Phase Transitions in Multiagent Systems (P)
July 26: Posted Don Norman's interview (J)
July 24: Interview with Allen Weiner (J & P)
July 21: Interview with Ade Mabogunje (J & P)
July 12: Posted Sonalkar's interview (J)
July 5: Posted Mark Nelson's interview (J)
July 4: Interviewed Gote Nyman (J & P)
June 20: Thoughts about an art program (P)
June 19: Posted Anne Riechert's interview (J)
June 17: Posted Margarita Quihuis' interview (J)
June 16: Interviewed Don Norman (J & P)
June 15: Interviewed Paolo Parigi (J & P)
June 13: Interviewed Neeraj Sonalkar (J & P)
June 7: Revised book outline (P)
June 3: Posted Robert Horn's interview (J)
May 31: Interviewed Chris Bennett (J & P)
May 30: Interviewed Howard Rheingold (J & P)
May 25: Interviewed Steven Dow (recommended by Bob Horn)
May 19: Interviewed Anne Riechert (J & P)
May 16: Interviewed Robert Horn (J & P & R)
May 16: Book outline (J & P)
Date to be determined: Robert Sapolsky, Michael Shanks, BJ Fogg, Wendy Ju, James Landay
Invited but no reply yet: Freedom Cheteni, Karen Guttieri, Annie Gentes, Ashish Goel, John Perry, William Perry, Sheldon Himelfarb, Russell Ackoff, Micah Lande, Bill Burnett

Documents, Presentations and Videos

Presentations
Videos
Conferences where PIL could present
Documents (mostly papers we are reading)

Peace Tech Conference and Festival

We have the speakers for a conference (the people we interviewed, plus the PIL members, and probably many others in tech/science). Piero can find the venue and help with the honoraria (from my art/science budget). The problem is the manpower to run it. Jinxia has organized large conferences in China (iwth thousands of attendees) but she is going back on Sep 9. If she can be in California next year at some point (e.g. May), then she can take care of it. We can tape the conference and then "market/export" it to other universities worldwide. This conference could be combined with a LAST festival where artists exhibit the outcome of their peace-related artworks. Continuing Studies is interested in collaborating. We don't need money from them but logistical support for the actual staging of the conference. We need to find a date that works for both us and Continuing Studies.


Friday, 18 May 2018

Where

Time: Panels and Talks

Where

Time: Panels and Talks

Where

Time: Panels and Talks

Saturday, Date, 2018

Where

Time: Panels and Talks

Where

Time: Art Exhibition

Where

Time Performances

Humanitarian Tech Alliance/ Affiliate Program

There are groups around the world working on "humanitarian technologies". Maybe you should create a club of sorts. Maybe we should make a map of all the organizations that could potentially join the PIL in a network of like-minded labs. Critical mass does help: approaching organizations such as GoogleX and OpenAI would be easier if PIL was part of a Humanitarian Tech network of some kind. Eg:

Artists in Residence Program


(Artwork and poem by Trudy Reagan)

Thoughts about an art program

Proposed "open call" to artists


ART CURATOR Name of art curator

Bio of art curator

Jennifer Parker: UCSC OpenLab

Jennifer Parker is an Associate Professor of Art and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research is rooted in sculpture, interactive and kinetic art, and cross-disciplinary and collaborative research. Current and past projects explore new methodologies for art making that engage art and science thinking. She is co-founder and director of The OpenLab Network at UCSC and has been working with Barney Hyanes since 2008 developing the SonicSENSE interactive art platform. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Local venues include Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Camerawork; The Lab; Gray Area Foundation for the Arts; Kala Art Institute; and ZER01:10SJ Biennial.

Collaboration between PIL and OpenLab students

Alex Reben: Sci-corp

Alex Reben is best known for his robots and machine art, including the film-making "BlabDroids". The BlabDroids are making the world's first documentary entirely shot and directed by robots. They have traveled the world asking difficult and meaningful questions in order to learn what makes us human. Alexander holds a graduate degree from the MIT Media Lab where he researched human-machine symbiosis and design. He has built robots for NASA, worked on particle accelerators and consults with executives to help make products more "lovable". He has held fellowships at MIT in the Center for Future Storytelling and CMS DocLab. He is currently a visiting scholar in the UC Berkeley psychology department and a director at Stochastic Labs, an art, science and technology incubator. Alexander has exhibited internationally including Ars Electronica, Volta, The Whitney Biennial, Axiom, TFI Interactive, IDFA, ArtBots, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Camden Film Festival, Doc/Fest, and The Boston Cyberarts Gallery. His work has been covered by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, Fast Company, Filmmaker Magazine, New Scientist, BBC, PBS, Discovery Channel, and Wired among others.

One thing that might be of interest is this idea my fried Aza Raskin and I have been toying around with called "Sci-corp" based off B corps. He presented the idea at a TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQkafxFoIQ

Fabiola Hanna: Project

Fabiola Hanna, an artist from Lebanon who is currently at UC Santa Cruz, is a thinker, artist, documentarian and interactive-media programmer. She explores ideas that might strengthen communities through art and technology. Her current work is about post-colonial activism in relation to ideological constructs of history, nation, community and political struggle.

She's interested

Melissa Day: Project

Melissa Day is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, currently at San Jose State University. Her recent work explores the role of singing in civic engagement, deepening dialogue among potentially insular groups. Day is currently building a "Wall of Song" with artist Michael Namkung, a massed singing of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

She's interested

Greg Niemeyer: Project

Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley/ Center for New Media), born in Switzerland, started working with new media when he arrived in the Bay Area in 1992 and he received his MFA from Stanford University in New Media in 1997. At the same time, he founded the Stanford University Digital Art Center, which he directed until 2001, when he was appointed at UC Berkeley as Assistant Professor for New Media. At UC Berkeley, he is involved in the development of the Center for New Media, focusing on the critical analysis of the impact of new media on human experiences. His creative work focuses on the mediation between humans as individuals and humans as a collective through technological means, and emphasizes playful responses to technology. His most recognized projects are Gravity (Cooper Union, NYC, 1997), PING (SFMOMA, 2001), Oxygen Flute (SJMA, 2002), ar (Pacific Film Archive, 2003), Ping 2.0 (Paris, La Villette Numerique, 2004), Organum Playtest (2005), Good Morning Flowers (SFIFF 2006, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2006), blackloud.org, sevenairs.org, and polartide.org

He's interested

Purin Phanichphant: Project

Purin Phanichphant's works are often playful, interactive, and simple, combining his fun-loving Thai roots, an obsession with knobs, buttons, and screens, and his training as an interaction designer. He was Principal Product & Interaction Designer at IDEO. His most recent works include a land-glider dubbed the Death Wheel 3000dx, an interface for human-computer sex, a wall covered with all the tap lights in the Bay Area, and a machine that churns out Thai food. Purin was born and raised in Northern Thailand, where he spent part of his life as a Buddhist monk.

He's interested

Amanda Hughen & Jennifer: Project

Climate change data turned into art

Bio

They use climate change data to create art

Kal Spelletich & Mitch Altman: Project

Mitch Altman is a hacker and inventor. While at the University of Illinois, Altman co-organized the first Hash Wednesday in Champaign-Urbana in 1977. Altman moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986 to work in Silicon Valley. Altman was an early developer of Virtual Reality technologies, working at VPL Research with Jaron Lanier. Altman left VPL Research in protest when it accepted contracts with the United States Department of Defense. Altman co-founded Silicon Valley start-up 3ware in February 1997 with Peter Herz and Jim MacDonald. Altman started Cornfield Electronics as a consulting company. In 2004 Altman released a one-button universal remote control called TV-B-Gone, to be used for turning off TVs in public places. Following extensive involvement in the "Maker" movement and Make magazine, Altman publicly parted ways with the Maker Faire in 2012 after the Maker Faire accepted contracts with the United States Department of Defense. Mitch Altman is an important figure in the international "hackerspace" and "maker" movements. While attending the 2007 Berlin Chaos Communication Camp, Altman and Jacob Appelbaum began discussing the idea of a San Francisco hackerspace, at which time there were no hackerspaces in the United States. In October 2008 he co-founded Noisebridge, one of the earliest hackerspaces in the USA.

Kal Spelletich is the founder of Seemen, an interactive machine art performance collective, has collaborated with Survival Research Labs and countless others from rock bands to scientists, politicians, NASA, Hollywood television and filmmakers. For 28 years he has been experimenting with interfacing humans and technology to put people in touch with intense real life experiences and to empower them. Kal's work is always interactive, requiring a participant to enter or operate the piece, often against their instincts of self-preservation. He works on the waterfront of San Francisco scouring junkyards and dumpsters for industrial items whose technology can be reapplied. He curates art exhibits and is involved in political activism.

I'll invite them: they have a piece of two robots controlled by the brainwaves of the audience and the goal is to make them kiss

Performances

Performances will be announced soon.

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Lectures, Workshops and Panels

CURATOR
Piero Scaruffi

(some imagined examples below)

Blockchain as a Trust Technology

Location, Date and Time

Bitcoin is now worth as much as gold. It is based on the blockchain technology, and it is a particular case of the "smart contracts" that are made possible by blockchain. How can blockchain improve social interactions?

  • Steve Omohundro is on the advisory boards of several AI and Blockchain companies. His research focuses on beneficial intelligent technologies. He has degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Stanford and Berkeley. He invented many machine learning algorithms, and built systems that learn to read lips, control robots, and induce grammars.

Social Robots

Location, Date and Time

Robots are commonly understood as machines that will replace humans, but maybe they should better be viewed as tools for behavior design, tools that can help us develop constructive social skills

  • Alex Reben is best known for his robots and machine art, including the film-making "BlabDroids". The BlabDroids are making the world's first documentary entirely shot and directed by robots. They have traveled the world asking difficult and meaningful questions in order to learn what makes us human. Alexander holds a graduate degree from the MIT Media Lab where he researched human-machine symbiosis and design. He has built robots for NASA, worked on particle accelerators and consults with executives to help make products more "lovable". He has held fellowships at MIT in the Center for Future Storytelling and CMS DocLab. He is currently a visiting scholar in the UC Berkeley psychology department and a director at Stochastic Labs, an art, science and technology incubator. Alexander has exhibited at prestigious venues both in the U.S. and internationally including Ars Electronica, Volta, The Whitney Biennial, Axiom, TFI Interactive, IDFA, ArtBots, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Camden Film Festival, Doc/Fest, and The Boston Cyberarts Gallery. His work has been covered by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, Fast Company, Filmmaker Magazine, New Scientist, BBC, PBS, Discovery Channel, and Wired among others.
  • Rosanna Guadagno is a social psychologist who conducts research at Stanford's Peace Innovation Lab and who teaches Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas. She was previously at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at UC Santa Barbara and served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation for three programs. Her work has been widely published in scholarly journals and covered by mass media. Her forthcoming book is "Why We Click: The Psychology of Social Media."

The Smart City of the Future

Location, Date and Time

Abstract

  • Anne Riechert is co-founder and managing director at ReDI School of Digital Integration in Berlin. From 2006-2009 she worked as creative lead and corporate social responsibility consultant for the Copenhagen-based brand strategy company Stoic. In July 2010, Anne moved to Japan, when she was entrusted with the prestigious Rotary Peace Fellowship. In 2012 Anne moved to Berlin to set up the Berlin Peace Innovation Lab in collaboration with Stanford University. In response to the refugee crises, Anne co-founded Refugees on Rails in the summer of 2015, to help integrate refugees in to the European tech scene."
  • Mark Nelson is co-director of Stanford's Peace Innovation Initiative. A former relief-worker, investment banker, and social entrepreneur, Mark Nelson founded the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, where he researches mass collaboration and mass interpersonal persuasion. Mark focuses on designing, catalyzing, incentivizing, and generating resources to scale up collective positive human behavior change. He has described a functional, quantitative definition of peace, in terms of technology-mediated engagement episode quantity and quality across social difference lines; he has identified innovative, automated ways to measure peace, both at the neighborhood and global level; and he has developed a formal structural description for peace data. He leads the Global Open Social Sensor Array Project, and designs technology interventions to measurably increase positive, mutually beneficial engagement across conflict boundaries. Mark's mission is to create an entire new, profitable industry, where positive peace is delivered as a service. other projects include epic global challenge and peace markets. mark is also a researcher and practitioner at Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, and a member of Stanford's Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory.
  • David McConville, a media artist and scholar, is co-chairman of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, an organization facilitating convergences across design, art, science, and technology to address complex global challenges. He also served as creative director of the Worldviews Network (worldviews.net), a NOAA-funded collaboration of artists, scientists, and educators using immersive data visualizations to facilitate transdisciplinary dialogues in science centers across the United States. In 2003, he co-founded the Elumenati (elumenati.com), a design and engineering firm that creates custom displays installations for clients from art festivals to space agencies.

The PIL's Mission (in our words)

The Stanford Peace Innovation Lab is an interdisciplinary and international project to increase positive peace via real-world interventions, to educate the general public on technologies for peace, and to innovate social structures.

For the first time in history, big data allow us to measure "peace" at all sorts of scales, from individual peace to group cooperation and to political peace; to apply technologies that increase peace; and to measure in real time if the interventions are working.

We research which technologies have the power to change the behavior of both individuals and groups towards more cooperative behavior, and in which way they can have a positive impact on our world, starting with the cities in which we live.

Even if the ultimate goal of our "moonshot" project cannot be achieved in our lifetimes, we believe that using and mixing novel technologies in novel ways can help us understand the power of these technologies better and may help create the "killer application" of the future, the social tool of the future, just like bending and mixing personal computing, Internet, phone, GUI, speech recognition, etc yielded the #1 social tool of our time, the smartphone.

Piero's and Jinxia's task is to reach out to thought leaders at Stanford and elsewhere on their insights on the future of technology for peace building, on how technology can mediate new forms of collaboration, and on the ethics and social impact of technology.

The flowchart of this research

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