Human Rights Maker Lab @ DMY 2012
| May 15, 2012 | Posted by Jay under Human Rights MakerLab, Uncategorized |
Short Version:
We have 350 sq. metres to explore design for Human Rights at the centre of an international design festival (DMY – June 6-10 – http://dmy-berlin.com/) through an autonomous festival of making – what would you like to do? Email us to get involved or come to the first planning event – see below.
Long Version:
In 2011 a symbol was crowd sourced, an emblem to be adopted and appropriated in the name of a worthy cause.
Human Rights.
This icon now is free for all to use, modify and appropriate. It now belongs to the world.
Will it fly or fall into obscurity?
We hope it can fly.
Regardless, we hope it will provoke you for long enough to consider what it means, and the importance of the topic.
The Human Rights MakerLab is a space for you to explore what Human Rights means through production, design and reflection. It is a space where you are free to share your ideas and methods. A dialogue through actions.
We encourage you to bring your own questions surrounding Human Rights, and create actions, workshops and conversations that explore these questions and encourage others to do likewise.
So if you would like to spend 4 days (or however long you wish to participate) at the heart of an international design event making, designing and exploring what Human Rights means through design, action and mediation. Then we invite you to join us.
To kick start this process of collaboration we will have an event on Friday 18th May at 19.00 in Open Design City where we will share past experiences and learning from the Makerlabs – http://www.makerlab.info (we invite contributions from past participants – get in touch if you want to say something).
If the weather’s nice we’ll put the BBQ on – so bring something to go on it.
If the weather’s not so nice, bring something to share if you feel like it.
We will then give you the chance to meet each other, and imagine what you might want to do, and what your motivations would be for participation – and how we might maximise everybody’s benefit from the action.
For those of you who can’t make the planning action, please feel free to get in touch stating what you would like to do and what you need.
MakerLab Milan 2012:Reflection
| May 9, 2012 | MakerLab Milan |
Aims Design for public space in the public space: We want to create designs that have an impact in the public space. We want to democratize design so that is accessible to all. Because design is not a method to make things expensive, it is a method to improve the things that humans interact with,…
Public Action: April 19th, 20th and 21st. Come and Make
| April 18, 2012 | MakerLab Milan |
We are apropriating the Via Cuccagna and customizing it. We want to do public design, in the public space, and we invite everybody interested to join us. The MakerLab Milan has been happening since the 1st of April at the Superground (Artkichen). During the last weeks, we have been getting to know Milan and its…
Looking for Makers in Milan
| April 17, 2012 | MakerLab Milan |
Dear everybody, We have set up a temporary workshop in the Cascina Cuccagna (Milan) We have hand tools and tables to work, a lot of people passing by, a lot of wood, cardboard and yellow strings, and even a cargo bike to pick up more stuff. We want to invite makers from milan, to…
Day 8 & 9: Developing second Iteration and Prototyping
| April 15, 2012 | MakerLab Milan |
After the conept and our aim was clearified, each team studied the process more in detail. Stelle del quartier: To Do list a cena: Story line and timeplan First each group developed the story line for each project. What is happening, How we are going to interact with the public, How can the project be…
Day 7: Share Work in Progress & Concept Definition
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan, Uncategorized |
Stelle del Quartiere
Stelle del quartiere is aimed at telling the story of Cascina Cuccagna and its surroundings collecting the memories of its main characters: people living and working there. With this project we hope to start an archive of information about the quarter, to introduce the inhabitants of the quarter to each other, to make them think of the developments of the neighbourhood.The collection of information will take place in three different ways.
-a mobile unit that will meet people in the street, in parks, associations, shops in the surrounding of the Cascina starting from Friday, the 6th of April. The “Stars of the Neighbourhood” will be portrayed, interviewed, then represented on playing cards that people will read, collect and exchange.
-a temporary photographic studio held at Cascina Cuccagna during the Public Design Festival. During the Festival we would like to involve also some engaged neighbors to talk with guests about their experiences (i.e. living libraries).
-an open archive where people is invited to share their old and recent pictures of the neighborhood, memories, thoughts, recipes, … : one digital in form of a blog and one analogue in form of a pinboard at Cascina Cuccagna.
A cena. In tre atti.
Sentire, Avvicinare, Unire
Eating is an everyday action. The sameness in the way we live, separate us from the experience of this actions. Since we are not conscious about the act, this separateness obscure our capacity to experience and even make choices.
We propose a process to help our 12 guest experience the everyday act of eating, in a magnified way. The same food will be presented in 3 different environments revealing 3 ways of experiencing a meal.
MakerLab is about showing the processes and involving people in the making. For the Public Design Festival, we want to magnify the everyday act of eating. With this project we are not criticising the behaviour of our everyday life, neither categorizing good or wrong, but understanding through immersion in the process our capacity to know and to make a free choice. In this occasion we decided to choose Food and the way we experience it as our main focus, but we think this represents just one field in which making the process visible can help to wake up our consciousness. We strongly believe this experience could be applied to most of our everyday acts.
Check our blog for updates on the projects
Day 6: Reflextion.
| April 12, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
To keep sharing knowledge with the community, we will be recording every week a discussion about the theme we have been talking about during the week.
For this documentary we want to seat everybody around a table, and ask a question to the first interviewee. From what he is saying we find a keyword which will generate the question for the next person.
Everybody will listen to what the other says, and thus have the opportunity to build on what the other people is saying without repeating, but adding their perspective.
In this way we want to document the key information in a video, and keep the post-production to a minimum.
(Video will follow)
Day 4 (&5): First Iteration
| April 7, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
After making the groups, we spend Thursday and Friday in the ideation phase of the project:
Experience and Activate
Round table and Reborn
Day 3: Sharing insights & visions; Define theme
| April 6, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
Day 3 was about putting thoughts together to identify what are our common goals.
1. We first arranged the questions that we have (day1) into four categories.
- Round Table: Involving, Communtyt, Participation, ..
- Responsibility: Share resources, Space, Low impact, ...
- Experience: Sense, Inspire, Amusing, Disrupt, Fun, ...
- Activate: Challenging, Activ, Reactiv, Empower, ...
- Reborn: Possitive change, Seeds, Refresh, Change mind,...
We finally decided who wanted to work on each topic and separate two groups
- Round Table & Reborn
Licia, Bert, Davide, Maryann, Giulia, Elena - Activate & Experience
Alessandra, Luca, Joanna, Iana, Diana, Pedro
Day2: Getting to know the environment
| April 5, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
On Tuesday we went around the city looking for interesting spots.
Each Maker gathered images that inspired them in certain way. Either as a spot to do something, or as an image that represents certain need of the city or opportunity .
Later on we gathered all images on a table and each one of us choose those that somehow sparked a keyword. We then group them into 4 groups that represented those topics we are most interested about because they are latent in the city.
- Prosuming
- Education and Awareness
- Sharing, Collaboration, Participate
- Communication and Human relationships.
More photos from the day out can be find in our flickr group