About
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Hackers & Designers is a non-profit workshop initiative organizing activities at the intersection of technology, design and art. By creating shared moments of hands-on learning H&D stimulates collaboration across disciplines, technological literacy, and different levels of expertise.
The H&D COOP
Hackers & Designers currently consists of nine people of which eight form the ‘H&D COOP’, a decentralized organization form that distributes power over finances and decision making. The current H&D COOP members are Loes Bogers, André Fincato, Selby Gildemacher, Anja Groten, Heerko van der Kooij, Juliette Lizotte, Karl Moubarak, Margarita Osipian. Christine Kappé develops the H&D administrative and financial workflows that align with our flattened organizational structure.
The H&D Community
The larger H&D community consists of a growing pool of international makers from diverse backgrounds. The aim of H&D is to stimulate and support exchange, learning and collaborations within this larger network of soft- and hardware developers, designers, artists, and researchers, and to create inspiring and encouraging spaces for the community to share skills, urgent topics, and interests, as well as concrete offers for commissions, exhibitions, guest lectures and workshop facilitation. The H&D network could also be described as a network of tool builders. By tools we mean software and/or hardware constructions but also pedagogical tools and tools for collaboration that enable critical engagement with, and through, technology.
The H&D Studio
Since 2019, H&D has been operating from a shared studio at the NDSM Loods in Amsterdam Noord. The H&D studio serves as a meeting space and provides the basic conditions to develop and host our activities. Contact
The annual H&D Summer Academy
Every year H&D invites creative practitioners who are interested in critically and practically engaging with technology, to join us for an intensive 1-2 week workshop. Whether it be fashion designers or system administrators—we invite the H&D community and the wider public to learn together about technologies in experimental and hands-on ways. Also the HDSA operates in a non-hierarchical manner. Tutors become participants, participants become workshop tutors—everyone is taken on the collective venture of shared responsibility, bringing in their own expertise, urgency and experience.
H&D Code of Conduct
While H&D activities are organized from the idea of a flattened hierarchy, it is important to ensure an environment of mutual respect that is safe and welcoming for all participants. H&D therefore wrote a Code of Conduct, and will continue writing, reviewing, and incorporating new insights into it. This document intends to make explicit what it takes for us as a community to create such a safe environment and what to do when it is under threat: [Link]
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Hackers & Designers is generously funded by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie since 2015.
