Selected
Publications
and Talks
 Books
April 2008. Tovey, M.,
editor, Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World
at Peace. Oakton, VA: EIN Press. 648 pp. [book] | [interview]
Book chapters
Chapters from the book, Collective
Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace:
2008. Tovey, M.
Editor's Preface. [PDF].
2008. Tovey, M.
‘Mass Collaboration, Open Source, and Social
Entrepreneurship’. [PDF]
2008. Tovey, M. & Lenczner, M. ‘Île
Sans Fil: Montréal community Wi-Fi: Interview with Michael
Lenczner.’[PDF]
2008. Masum, H., & Tovey,
M. Scaling Up Open Source Problem Solving. [PDF]
Handouts
2007. Tovey, M.
'Many
minds
make might work: mass collaboration, open source, and global change.' [One-page PDF that I sometimes distribute to accompany talks.]
Peer reviewed papers
Masum, H. & Tovey, M. 'Given
enough minds...: Bridging the ingenuity gap.' First Monday,
vol. 11, iss. 7, 2006. [abstract]
Inventories collaborative
technologies and their modes of use. Sketches
requirements for a green source forge and meta-manhattan projects.
Tovey,
M.
'The First Stage: The Officers of the London Garrison and the Theatre
Royal.' The London and Middlesex Historian 20:27-44, 1993. [abstract]
A military presence intended
for war inadvertently provides peace, prosperity, and lasting cultural
value.
Editorial
Worldchanging
Canada, Editor (2006-)
A group blog featuring articles about
tools and
solutions that are already changing the world. WorldChanging.ca
Selected Articles and Interviews:
12 June 2010. Open Data Ottawa.
[surveys open data tools from event at Ottawa City Hall]
31 December 2009. Engineering Fun
[examines use of fun in engaging people]
31 July 2009. Localizing Roadmaps
[solutions need to be re-localized]
3 June 2009. Urban Agriculture Grows Up
[model of how backyard agriculture can scale]
27 May 2009. Finding Your Green Job
[summarizes book on how to make money and change the world]
14 January 2009. Causing Change
[the need for agile change]
5 November 2008. Two Years of Bright Green Canadian Solutions
[Canadian innovation and Canadian context]
22 July 2008. Flirting with Free Fares
[Canadian transit thinks the unthinkable]
31 May 2008. Local Futures Conference: Tom Karas
[utility-scale energy storage]
31 March 2008. Earth
Hour Across Canada
[example of distributed journalism]
21 March 2008. Think
galactically, print locally
[open source ultra-high resolution
photographs]
31 December 2007. Peter
Merholz Interview
[the inception of blogging; electronic communities and activism]
7 September 2007. Maggie
Fox Interview [Part
2]
[social networking & social change]
29 June 2007. Have
canoe will cycle: world heritage sustainable commuting [multi-use pathways]
19 February 2007. Climate
Change and the Political Imagination
[change as a matter of shared values]
31 January 2007. Worldchanging
Canada Interview with Lester Brown
[large scale change and the media]
21 July 2006. Bike
Co-ops, Trails, and Ottawa Cycling
[See also Moving
House(s) by Pedal Power]
(See Summary
of articles in 2007 for a sense of the blog as a whole).
Totem: The UWO Journal of Anthropology, Co-Editor (vol. 2, vol. 3. iss. 1, vol. 3.
iss. 2).
Papers
in Socio-cultural, bio-anthropology, archeology, and linguistics.
Journal of the Anthropology Student Union at the University of Western
Ontario. ISSN
1203-8830
  
Invited Talks
6 June, 2010. Invited panellist. 'Artful interventions'. Panellist, with Jill Anholt and John Lewis. Chaired by Philip Beesley. Panellist at the annual Toronto Festival of Art and Science, SubtleTechnologies, Innis Hall, University of Toronto. [webpage]
6 June, 2010. 'Drama and Sustainability Workshop'. SubtleTechnologies Festival, Innis Hall, University of Toronto. [webpage]
31 May, 2010. 'What you Can Do to Change The World—Finding and Building Green Solutions Using Collective Intelligence'. Canada's Top One Hundred Green Employers—One Day Business Conference, Fairmont Royal York, Toronto, ON.
27 May, 2010. 'Collective Intelligence and Global Change'. Keynote Speaker, CaCOR Annual General Meeting, Ottawa ON.
22 February 2010. Open Source Democracy: Can Collective Intelligence, mass collaboration, and large-scale problem solving using open architectures redefine democratic engagement in the 21st Century? Panellist, with Hassan Masum and Michael Nielsen. Chaired by Thomas Homer-Dixon. Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON. [video]
23 October 2009. Invited panellist. 'Who am I: the brain, memory, and who we really are' Quantum2Cosmos Festival. Perimeter Institute. Waterloo ON. [Listen to podcast].
26 March 2009. Tovey, M. 'World Changing—Building and Visioning a Viable Future'.
Foresight Synergy Network Program, Canadian Foresight Network (CFN).
6 March 2009. Tovey, M. 'Mass collaboration and sustainable infrastructure.' Living Large Symposium, Waterloo, ON
26 September 2008. Tovey, M. 'Design Principles for Global Change.' Sustainable Design. Lloyd Alter. Ryerson University.
18 September 2008. Tovey, M.
'Enabling Collective Intelligence.' Living Environment Design Studio 1.
Martin Liefhebber. Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Faculty of
Design.
3 February
2008. Tovey, M. & Brogan
M. 'How
you can build a more sustainable world'. Museum London, Beyond Green
exhibition, Green Day, London, ON. [abstract]
3 March 2007. Tovey, M.
'The First Stage: The Officers of the London Garrison and the Theatre
Royal'. Museum London, Interpretive Centre - Eldon House, London,
Canada. [abstract]
September
2006. Masum, H. & Tovey,
M. Scaling Up Open Collaboration. OSCON Europe 2006, Brussels. [abstract]
28 June 2005. Tovey, M.
'Tapping into Diversity for Better Decisions.' Bank of Canada. [abstract]
31 May 2005. Tovey, M.
'Giving Effective Academic Talks: Getting and Keeping Attention.
Department of Engineering. Queen's University. [abstract]
21 February 1997. Tovey, M. ‘Relationships between Ethnic Language Retention, Income, and Urban
Living in Canada.’, UWO Population Studies Colloquia Series;
re-presented at Graduate Linguistics Series (11 March 2002), UWO.
1 June 1996. Tovey M. & Dewdney, A. K. ‘Enviropath: Major Environmental Science
Resource’. Horizons: Symposium on Environmental and Global Education,
Althouse College, UWO, London, Canada.
Conferences with Refereed Abstracts
12 June 2010. Tovey, M. 'Change Blindness and Familiarity'. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain and Behaviour, Halifax, NS.
7 August 2009. 'Open Source, Global Change, and Social Innovation.' Poster session presented at the scientific poster session of the annual meeting of the World Science Fiction Society (Anticipation), Montréal, QC.
19
August 2006. Tovey, M.
'Cognitive design considerations for
three-dimensional user interfaces', Cognitio 2006, UQAM. [abstract]
23 June 2006. Tovey, M.,
Runnels, J., Herdman, C., Brown, M.
'Size of featural change in change blindness in
faces', Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (BBCS) 2006, U.
Saskatchewan. [abstract]
16 May 2006. Masum, H., & Tovey,
M. 'Given Enough
Minds...:Bridging the Ingenuity Gap', FM10 Openness: Code, Science, and
Content, Chicago.
22 April 2005. Tovey, M.
'A catalogue of caresses: the neurophysiology
of touch receptors and the mediation of ostensive pleasurable touch.'
Spaces of Pleasure, Carleton University. [abstract]
2 March 2005 Tovey, M.
'Minimization of cognitive exertion: the effect
of epistemic structure on choice.' Cogito 2005: Cognition and Decision,
UQAM. [abstract]
July 2003. Tovey, M. &
Kilbride C. ‘UP-DOWN metaphors as linguistic primitives:
non-Indo-European languages considered.’ UQAM Summer Institute in
Cognitive Science. (poster, jointly presented orally); re-presented at
Cognitive Science Graduate Student Poster Session, Carleton University
(September 2003).
8 February 1997. Tovey, M. ‘Relationships between Ethnic Language Retention and Urban Living
in Canada.’ McMaster Anthropology Student Research Forum,
McMaster University.
Other contributions
15 November 2008. Tovey, M. 'Open Source, Global Change, and Social Innovation.' Change the World: 2008 Annual Conference, Laurel Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. (talk, with poster)
30 August 2007. Tovey, M. 'Creative Commons, Open Source, and Social Change.' Story Field 2007 Conference, Colorado. (talk)
5 August 2007. Tovey, M. 'Open Source and Social Change.' Seminar at Worldchanging.com weekend, Seattle, WA. (talk)
26 April 2005. Tovey, M. 'Possible
cognitive effects of linguistic relativity: perceptual effects
unlikely.' Cognitive Science Spring Conference, Carleton University.
(poster).
6 February 2004. Tovey, M., Whitney, D., Goodale, M. (2004, February). Blind Spot Retinotopy:
a control considered. Cognitive Science Research Seminar, Carleton University. (talk)
26 September 2003. Tovey, M., Whitney, D., Goodale,
M. ‘Evidence of Possible Blind Spot Retinotopy: Preliminary
fMRI imaging of V1 suggests that cortical firings corresponding to line
completions across the optical blind spot may be organized
retinotopically’. Cognitive Science Research Seminar,
Carleton University. (talk)
1 April 2002. Tovey, M. ‘Deborah Tannen’s ‘The Grooves of Academe.’ Graduate Linguistics Series, UWO. (talk)
1995 Tovey, M.
‘Spatial Metaphors as Linguistic Primitives: A Comparison of
UP-DOWN Metaphors in Three Languages’. Totem: The UWO Journal of
Anthropology 2:71-74. (paper)
Organizing Events
2009-2010. Co-Organizer, Cognitive Science Graduate Student Speakers' Series, Carleton. Weekly talks series. Programmed and publicized regular campus talks series bringing in speakers from outside the Cognitive Science Institute for talks and in-depth discussion with the Ph.D. Students.
2009. Co-organizer, SciBarCamp2, ~100-person event at Hart House, University of Toronto.
Recent Media Appearances
18 October 2009. 'Smart Minds... unite. Interviewed by host Mary Ito for the CBC Radio programme Fresh Air. [audio]
22 October 2009. 'Imagine the Future.' Interviewed by David Erwin for TVOntario's The Agenda, in a segment also featuring Peter Diamandis and Anton Zeilinger.
Teaching and Lectures
Research
Understanding change: cognitive, cultural, and societal
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