A crash course in Piracy : Illustrating data
| July 19, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under Uncategorized |
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YOU MAKE CHANGE. (Human Rights MakerLab Reflextion)
| June 20, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under Human Rights MakerLab |
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When we first got asked about doing a MakerLab on Human Rights, we got the proposal of making T-Shirts and different objects with the Human Rights logo on it. The idea was to spread the Human Rights logo, at the same time that making those objects in a fair and open way which people could experience.
You Make Change from Hans Goedecke on Vimeo.
But we saw other potential in it. We saw that most makers have an inherent feeling for human rights. Non of them go around talking about how Human-Rights-Friendly their products or process are, instead they want to inspire people about a different way of doing things. A way that empowers Human Beings and the environment we live in. And they do this just because they believe is making a difference, and they love to do it.
In this sense, the MakerLab was not about defending the right to have a free speech or shelter. It was about the right to be a Human Being, and inspire others to be too. Not just with the minimums we need to live, but with the right to fully enjoy life and all its excitements and thrills. The MakerLab was the opportunity for those people trying to do something, to get in contact with other like-minded people and Make it happen, It was about making people happy. The logo, inspiration for this Makerlab, is then slowly translated into a symbol. A symbol for those that want to change the world to make it better for all. Is a symbol for those that have an idea, and can’t keep it to them self, but need to make it into the world.
Thanks to…Predrag Stakić, for the Logo Design,Everybody who came and took part,Everyone who passed through and contributed,Everybody who shared their ideas and thoughts,To those who intended to participate but couldn’t this time,To everyone we missed off due to sheer volumes of anarchic participation,To the forces of chaos, serendipity and pure collective will,To the world.
The Human Rights MakerLab is a collaboration between DMY, InterInstitute in Berlin, www.humanrightslogo.net, Open Design City (Betahaus) and numerous content partners. It is facilitated by Jay Cousins and Pedro Pineda using the MakerLab Process.
Design Activism at DMY 2012
| May 30, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under Human Rights MakerLab |
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This years MakerLab is about Human Rights.
Through the lab we will explore the opportunities and challenges of having a logo for Human Rights, and take the opportunity to do something about them.
Rather than waiting for others to change the world situation, we will instead create a collective action which have enough impact to disrupts the way things are.
As part of the activities we are proposing we are looking for 10 creatives from different disciplines that want to take part in this process and have a say during the DMY Berlin 2012.
Interested people will take part in a creative process focused around a challenge that we all identify with and try to design a way to get all the DMY visitors and exhibitors to make something about it.
We are making two calls:
- Thursday, 7th of June: How to magnify a proposed action?
Process:- We invite participants to spend the day at DMY International Design Festival and find ways in which Human Rights are being threatened or empowered within the event.
- At 16:00, workshop participants will meet at the MakerLab to identify a challenge that we all identify with and we will have a Hold Up Session to solve this challenge determined by the participants!
- We will take the action and augmented through the 3 days of the event to try to get all DMY visitors and exhibitors to do something about that challenge.
CoAnimators:
Pedro Pineda (We Creative People) and Eskinder & Kate Michi Ettinger (MakeSense Gangsters)
When:
Thursday 7th: 16:00 -> 19:00
- Friday, 8th of June: How can the human rights symbol be linked to meaningful action to reflect a “people’s” version of the UN Declaration for Human Rights?
Process:
In this 2 hr workshop, we will bring together multi-disciplinary participants as sensemakers to solve a challenge for a social enterprise. During the creativity workshop, we develop prototypes for solutions to solve the challenge. Learn more about Hold Ups from MakeSense founder Christian Vanizette here
CoAnimators:
MakeSense Gangsters Daniel Hires & Kate Michi Ettinger
When:
Friday 8th: 15:00 -> 17:00
Get in touch with us if you like to know more or take part.
The Hold-Up process will be facilitated by MakeSense. They are a global community of young people passionate for social enterprise. You can learn more about us on our blog:we.makesense.org and check out MakeSense in 1 Min. Web: www.makesense.org
Human Rights Maker Lab @ DMY 2012
| May 15, 2012 | Posted by Jay under Human Rights MakerLab, Uncategorized |
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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 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
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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, to improve the way we live.
Therefore our design brief is about design for the public space, and our workshop is set up so that is open for the public to come in and join
Engagement with locals: We want to design there where we are, with the people that will use it, and for the community. By decentralizing the process of designing and making we share the cost among all, in this way making the design accessible to all.
Therefore we do not just look at the design of the -object- but we design the whole process and facilitate points of engagement for the general public.
Conclusion
Why to engage the public: In the web we have seen how numerous projects are quickly growing with relatively low budgets but creating high impacts. This is because the public grasp the possibility for engagement, and the quick and successful development of the -products-. By opening the process to the public we are able to multiply the pool of knowledge, and by finding topics that are of common interest, we engage them in the development multiplying the speed at which the outcomes are produced.
We also have to understand the many ways in which the public can get involved, which is not just as developer, but also giving feedback or even just getting inspired, and sparking another project. We learn this at this last MakerLab, where it was the first time where two of the projects developed by us, were presented at the public actions as experiences for passers by, and not as a workshop to take part in.
Why to do it in the public space: We are inspired by what is happening in the web, but also know that this kind of collaborative approaches were happening before the web existed, they were just not so well spread. We believe that the public space is ultimately where people meet in the physical world. In this very space we can provoke the changes to the structures of our cities and the way we interact in it. Good examples are Urban gardens and FabLabs, so why not create laboratories where we can design and prototype solutions for social challenges?
We believe the appropriation of the public space is not so much about occupying it, but about re-shaping it to cover our needs from today.
Why use local resources: While importing skills, materials and cultures from other countries is a great inspiration, it also creates a dependency. We do not want to go to a new place to make the solutions for people that we do not know, in a place that we do not know with materials that they do not have. Rather we see that we can benefit others by sharing our skills, so that the locals can propose solutions for the challenges they face, with the resources they have available. In this way we spark solutions that will continue to evolve once we are gone.
Why do it again: The email from Luca Tarasco resume what we did and our feelings after this MakerLab:
It has been a deep experience.
Not only creative people, but beautiful people.
If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t ever walk the whole night throughout the city, never knew that having a twin sister would affect your blackberry internet connection, that Malta was actually a country and not only a sicilian beach.
I wouldn’t ever talk about vitality of languages with no vowels, never knew that you can play a guitar with a dead finger and definitely I will never look at plastic chairs in the same way anymore!
I wouldn’t ever knew that Saltapini sisters have taken their gorgeousness from the landscape they live in, that portuguese girls are so good in pretending to understand italian and korean girls not that precise as they look.
I wouldn’t ever knew that yellow strings were that versatile, that you can built a magical atmosphere with mere wood and screwdrivers.
And that giving dinner to 36 persons could be that satisfying.
Thank you all!
Thank you!
On the MakerLab Milan 2012 page we have written down the details about the process, the people that took part, our supporters and some of the projects that came out during the residency.
Public Action: April 19th, 20th and 21st. Come and Make
| April 18, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
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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 inhabitants. Inspired by them, and together with some locals, we have develop two projects (read more here) which will be happening this week.
Parallel to that, we wanted to show our process live and open to the public during the Salone, for that we have set our self at the Via Cuccagna, just outside the Cascina Cuccagna, where we have build (and continue building) a space which covers our needs as creative activist.
What we want to do is:
- Open up the design process to all. Designers play the role of facilitators to help the public express its creativity
- Create a temporary meet up place for creatives, researchers and activist, who want to share their knowledge.
- Built a workshop where the ideas transfered and discussed can become reallity.
This is what we are doing.
In the calendar we will be updating some of the activities that are taking place.
Our temporary space at Via Cuccagna has:
- Co-working space with wi-fi:
- Workshop (with working bench and tools):
- Public cinema (For documentaries, and film evenings): (Under construction)
- Chilling area (with hope for sun):
- We have an analogue timetable where we (and you) will be writing what is going on each day:
Looking for Makers in Milan
| April 17, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
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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 come and use the space, both as a way to promote its own work, to interact with the public, or just to get to know one another and transform the public space together.
Come around to Cascina Cuccagna, or write us a word to open@makerlab.info
Day 8 & 9: Developing second Iteration and Prototyping
| April 15, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
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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 understood, …
Then we started prototyping the different process that people would interact with:
Stelle del quartier: First interviews in the quartier around Cascina Cuccagna.
Day 7: Share Work in Progress & Concept Definition
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan, Uncategorized |
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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 |
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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)
