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Mysterious street art

November 2, 2017by jramos Leave a comment

More mysterious street art in my neighborhood. This one corner of ashley and sunshine in west footscray. Explanations / interpretations welcome.

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Getting advice on collaboration software

March 29, 2017by jramos Leave a comment

A few weeks back I asked my facebook friends and colleagues about collaboration software. I tagged about 40 people, asking for advice on web platforms for discussion and collaboration. ————————– […]

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Hybridity, post hybridity and cults of purity

June 15, 2016by jramos Leave a comment

Some societies are changing fast, and others are trying not to change so fast. One of the interesting features of our present age is the way in which the ubiquitousness […]

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Ideating seeds for urban transformation

February 4, 2016by jramos 1 Comment

I’ve just started as an “Honorary Fellow” through Victoria University’s Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing on a new project to run through 2016, possibly longer, titled (for the moment) “Ideating […]

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commons, futures / foresight, research

Proposal for Public Policy Paper: “From Smart Cities to Smart Citizens: City as a Commons”

December 11, 2015by jramos 25 Comments

The smart city discourse has become a ‘used future’. It is spouted by consultants and tech advocates, but it does not seem to have much humanity, nor does it include […]

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commons, futures / foresight

Thanks for the year

December 30, 2014by jramos Leave a comment

It has been a challenging but rewarding year. I’d like to give some acknowledgement and thanks to those that were part of it. In June my wife DeChantal gave birth […]

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Anticipate – Design – Connect – Evolve

October 16, 2014by jramos Leave a comment

A few months back in May I was trying to grapple with the complexity of my “professional” life, the various projects and commitments, and the various stages things were in. […]

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Gaming the commons

September 20, 2014by jramos 4 Comments

Ever since being invited by the Commons Strategy Group to attend the Economics of the Commons conference in Berlin in 2013, I have been contemplating how the commons as a […]

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commons, games

Robert’s farm

September 18, 2014by jramos Leave a comment

Back in March I helped Karl Fitzgerald with his wedding prep at Robert McAlpine’s farm in the Grampians. Despite a nasty back pain I had a good time running about […]

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film and photo

Imagining alternative futures and transmedia storytelling

June 29, 2014by jramos Leave a comment

I spent saturday with Oases program participants,  facilitating a course called Media Time and Consciousness. The purpose of the course is to give participants an understanding and methods to analyse […]

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futures / foresight, metaphor, narrative

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My Work

Action Foresight
http://actionforesight.net/

The Journal of Futures Studies
http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/

Writing / articles / essays
https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos

Footscray Maker Lab
http://footscraymakerlab.com/

Liquid Democracy Project
http://digitale-grundversorgung.de/digital-democracy

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