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May 10–25, 2022: Responsible Documentation and Conscious Outcomes
A workshop exploring the ownership of knowledge.
- Date: May 10–25, 2022
- Location: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
This working group ran from May 2022 to September 2023 as part of the research project Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property. It focused on building methods and frameworks for responsible documentation and conscious outcomes of mutual benefit to scholars and practitioners.
In response to familiar conditions of disenfranchisement of practitioner knowledge (particularly of indigenous communities and traditional craftspeople in India and Papua New Guinea), in this project the group explored the possibilities for scholars—mindful of their relationships in engaging source communities/practitioners—to produce both responsible documentation of value to academia, and ownership of knowledge for their "source communities." Through the spectrum—from engaging with practitioners to theoretically considering practices informed by alternative ontologies—the group explored in a series of three workshops at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) and in India how scholars can understand theory that is inherent in practice as a formal method.
Learn more on the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science website: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/responsible-documentation-and-conscious-outcomes-explorations-ownership-knowledge
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