I think there is a wide potential for collective intelligence for public collectivity/community because it allows for collaboration between levels of expertise. As mentioned by Roxane, there are other initiatives in which skill sharing is allowed. A diverse discipline that comes to mind is citizens’ science. Citizen science is a collaborative process where volunteers work with professional scientists to study real world problems. Different types of citizen science projects include action projects, where citizens intervene in community concerns, conservation projects that support natural resources management, investigation projects where data is collected to advance scientific goals, technology-mediated virtual projects, projects that support educational outreach, and biodiversity curation projects.

This model has also been taken by artists such as Beatriz Da Costa and Kavita Phillip, who use “Tactical biopolitics” as “a creative terminological misappropriation”, drawing inspiration from “the assembly of resistant cultural practices referred to as tactical media, and the intellectual ferment around the history of biopolitics”. This intersection traces creative practices from technoscience, art, and activism, to combines it with the history of biopolitics. In their writings, Beatriz Da Costa and Kavita Phillip claim that the strongest possible aspect of tactical media is the “inter/un-disciplinary” exchanges among practitioners and theorists from various backgrounds. This attribute always privileges collaboration and coordination with larger strategy-based movements of resistance against hegemonic forces with inclusion and cooperation of the scientific community. They also refer to the notion of public amateurism as a task which a number of artists have undertaken in recent years which allows them to “rather than attempting to achieve expert status within the sciences, artists have ventured to find help in the realm of hobbyism and do-it-yourself home recipes for conducting scientific experiments” (Da Costa & Phillip 2010: 373).

Da Costa, Beatriz and Kavita Philip. 2008. Tactical biopolitics: Art, activism, and technoscience. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.