Bricolabs Workshop at Mal au Pixel and Enter:
Jaromil, Matt Ratto, Rob van Kranenburg ( Venzha, tbc)
The workshop will consist of short presentations on a) the recent new possibilities of open source software, content and hardware and its promises for real democratic generic infrastructures (non branded, non ip) from your average electricity supply, your automobiles (OScar), your connectivities (mobile infrastructure) and b) bricolabs; a series of labs all over the world that work on shared objects, not so much through a shared philosophy. Apart from presentations there will be two participatory strands: 1) a scenario workshop on what generic infrastructures would mean for you, your house, your street, your life, and 2) hands-on experience with installing and using dynebolic (a free software operating system and tools developed specifically for digital artisans) and exploring the open device called the GP2X that allows user/developers to create novel forms of interactive and handheld computing.
Timo Arnall: “What I really like about the Bricolabs is the kind of low-tech hacking of everyday infrastructure. If the participants come out of a bricolab course with an increased sensitivity to everyday, ubiquitous, technology infrastructures, that would be fantastic.”
The convenors of this workshop, along with many others, are currently developing novel means for exchanging knowledge between “bricolabs”, distributed sites that explore the potentialities of pervasive information technologies in an open context. The central theme is that of “re-working”, “re-using”, and “re-purposing” existing infrastructures in order to develop novel forms of knowledge exchange between artists, technologists, and socio-technical theorists, as well as the development of new models for innovation in business and in society more generally.
We believe that the work of bricolabs would be extended and made more durable through the creation of a shared open hardware and software testbed for experimentation. In this workshop we provide details about potential aspects of such a testbed; first by exploring an open device called the GP2X that allows user/developers to create novel forms of interactive and handheld computing; and second, Dynebolic, a free software operating system and tools developed specifically for digital artisans.
The workshop will consist of a demonstration of the “hackability” of the GP2X, and a hand-on experience with installing and using dynebolic.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Enter Festival : Panel Toolshift/Mindshift
Downing College, Cambridge.
Enter festival.
April 26
16:15-17:45
PANEL 4
TOOLSHIFT/MINDSHIFT
New environments & new models.
Do new tools foster new forms of participation?
Chair: Rob van Kranenburg (Bricolabs, Experience Design)
Introduction: Patrick Humphreys (LSE)
Keynote: Stephen Heppell (Heppell.net)
Respondent: Matt Ratto (Bricolabs)
Respondent: Sean Dodson (Guardian)
New tools foster new forms of participation and new environments. Business units in possibly disruptive techologies as RFID do not longer see 'pilots' as productive ways of relating procedural experience with scaling onto larger environments or engendering new ones. The operational landscape is simply changing too fast. The academic output of papers and text is rapidly becoming problematic in its capacities to underly and steer the way in which formal policy, informal networks and everyday practices interrelate. In creative practice the loop of concept-scenario-prototype is slowly becoming replaced by rapid prototyping models, hardware possibilities taking the the role of the concept phase. New generations of interaction and industrial designers, artists, journalists, and political activists are informed by the practice of theory, not by theoretical axioms, manifestos or dogmas. Can these new environments engendered by new tools be facilitated by existing structures and mindsets? Or do they set forth a mindshift that will be as disruptive as pervasive technologies?
Enter festival.
April 26
16:15-17:45
PANEL 4
TOOLSHIFT/MINDSHIFT
New environments & new models.
Do new tools foster new forms of participation?
Chair: Rob van Kranenburg (Bricolabs, Experience Design)
Introduction: Patrick Humphreys (LSE)
Keynote: Stephen Heppell (Heppell.net)
Respondent: Matt Ratto (Bricolabs)
Respondent: Sean Dodson (Guardian)
New tools foster new forms of participation and new environments. Business units in possibly disruptive techologies as RFID do not longer see 'pilots' as productive ways of relating procedural experience with scaling onto larger environments or engendering new ones. The operational landscape is simply changing too fast. The academic output of papers and text is rapidly becoming problematic in its capacities to underly and steer the way in which formal policy, informal networks and everyday practices interrelate. In creative practice the loop of concept-scenario-prototype is slowly becoming replaced by rapid prototyping models, hardware possibilities taking the the role of the concept phase. New generations of interaction and industrial designers, artists, journalists, and political activists are informed by the practice of theory, not by theoretical axioms, manifestos or dogmas. Can these new environments engendered by new tools be facilitated by existing structures and mindsets? Or do they set forth a mindshift that will be as disruptive as pervasive technologies?
CARBUSTERS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: OUR CITIES, OUR SELVES
CARBUSTERS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: OUR CITIES, OUR SELVES
Carbusters #31: "Our Cities, Our Selves"
Looks at how urban form shapes our physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2007
What is "urban form"? It's how our towns and cities are built. This time around, we're asking you to take a look at your surroundings. What do you see? How do the circumstances of your surroundings shape your daily habits? What changes would you like to see and how might these changes change you? Reply to.
As usual, we are always looking for good stories, graphics, photos, and links encouraging the carfree lifestyle as well as reports from the front lines of carfree activism. We always welcome cool stickers, stencils and other agitprop for reproduction in the magazine and to offer in the resources section of our website.
Carbusters #31: "Our Cities, Our Selves"
Looks at how urban form shapes our physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2007
What is "urban form"? It's how our towns and cities are built. This time around, we're asking you to take a look at your surroundings. What do you see? How do the circumstances of your surroundings shape your daily habits? What changes would you like to see and how might these changes change you? Reply to
As usual, we are always looking for good stories, graphics, photos, and links encouraging the carfree lifestyle as well as reports from the front lines of carfree activism. We always welcome cool stickers, stencils and other agitprop for reproduction in the magazine and to offer in the resources section of our website.
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