Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was an invited participant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Collective Wisdom Symposium on September 20-22, 2018.

The MIT Collective Wisdom Symposium explored and investigated co-creating media with communities, across disciplines, and with algorithms.

The symposium was an invite-only closed gathering of 150 visionary, field shaping documentarians, artists, designers, planners, scientists, scholars, funders, planners, and movement-builders from across the US, Canada, UK, China, Peru, Chile, Mexico, and the world to discuss the pressing issues of co-creation in an intensive think tank environment.

The Collective Wisdom Symposium consisted of panels, presentations, screenings, performances, installations, and break-out sessions to mine and explore the dynamic emerging area of co-creation that shifts from the single auteur to collaborative and collective modes.

This three-day multidisciplinary convening was organized by the Co-Creation Studios at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, in partnership with the Ford Foundation’s Just Films, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Phi Centre.