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Where will the Festival take place
Paris venues at the heart of the event
The “Wikiplaza” on the place de la Bastille, la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, la Bourse de Commerce, la Maison des Métallos.
In the surrounding region: les Bases de Loisirs de Cergy-Pontoise (95), Port-aux-Cerises (91), Vairs-Torcy (77) and St-Quentin-en-Yvelines (78) ; Asnières (92), Montreuil (93), etc.
Numerous partner venues: Mains d’Oeuvres at St Ouen (93), le Centre des Arts d’Enghien les Bains (95), le Cube at Issy les Moulineaux (92), la Fonderie de l’Image at Bagnolet (93), the Ars Longa gallery (75), etc.
Associated venues: la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme at Saint Denis, le Musée du Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers, l’Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation (IRI) on the Piazza Beaubourg, le Laboratoire, le Centre d’Art et de Recherche Bétonsalon Université Paris Diderot, etc.
Public space events and interventions: the “bateau ivre” (drunken boat) augmented reality on the Seine, “Transports Amoureux” (amorous transports) on line 3 of the tram, etc.
Historic monuments where prototypes will be shown: the roof of the Arche de la Défense (92), la Chapelle du Carmel at Saint Denis (93), le château de Vincennes (94), l’Arc de Triomphe (75), etc.
The “Wikiplaza” on the Place de la Bastille
The concept of the WikiPlaza is based on the idea of a digital city “superimposed” on a real city. The Wikiplaza will be a catalyst of urban activity, a “citizen’s laboratory” on the social usage of technology. It will be the extension of physical public space into diverse networks, which make up contemporary life. It will not take away public space from the inhabitants of the city, but rather extend and amplify its dimension into other spheres.
The Parisian WikiPlaza will be an infrastructure, made up of light architectural elements and technological systems (hardware, netware, software), designed to be used by the public in an open and participative manner to connect at will, share knowledge and experience, to access local and remote resources. As Tim Berners Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) has suggested, the future belongs to the GGG (Giant Global Graph), a new global network, as large as the WWW, given its structure and content by collaborative mapping and social networks. In this context, the Wikiplaza will function as a symbolic pre-figuration of the GGG, as a general interface, a relational machine, a generator of “new territories” between the physical and digital.
The Wikiplaza will host several technological prototypes, selected by an international jury in 2008, as a result of a Call for Projects in the Cap Digital Paris region.