  Contemporary debates on "open science" mostly focus on the pub- lic
accessibility of the products of scientific and academic work. In contrast,
this paper presents arguments for "opening" the ongoing work of science. That
is, this paper is an invitation to rethink the university with an eye toward
engaging the public in the dynamic, conceptual and representational work
involved in creating scientific knowledge. To this end, we posit that public
computing spaces, a genre of open- ended, public learning environment where
visitors interact with open source computing platforms to directly access,
modify and create complex and authentic scientific work, can serve as a
possible model of "open science" in the university.
