Summer Academy 2018: Open call for participation

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Summer Academy 2018: Open call for participation
Name Summer Academy 2018: Open call for participation
Location DekWest, Amsterdam
Date 2018/04/10-2018/04/28
Time [[]]
PeopleOrganisations
Type HDSA2018
Web Yes
Print Yes

The H&D Summer Academy of 2018 includes workshops, lectures, a film night and publishing activities. The program addresses hackers/designers/makers who are not afraid to open, break or rethink software and hardware, and recognize the importance of researching ethical consequences that arise in our contemporary information society.


Are you using and pushing the boundaries of existing technology and programming platforms (webware, hardware, software), networks online/offline (internet, IPFS, darknet, peer 2 peer, blockchain, bot networks), and user experience? Are you thinking through making? Are you looking for new challenges and collaboration? Submit a workshop proposal!

Workshop proposals

Tips for submitting workshop proposals:

  • Proposed workshop formats are: 1/2 day, 1-day, or 2-days. Shorter intermission are also possible for newbies.
  • Hands-on means of productions should stay central during the workshop.
  • The proposal should cover aspects of design, artistic research, and programming. If you need support on one of the aspects, consider finding a collaborator via the H&D or network or your own.
  • Giving a workshop can be quite intensive. We therefore advise to collaborate with 1 or 2 people on submitting proposals.

How to submit

  • Sign up on our Typeform insert link
  • You will receive an email with a template for submission, including a short description of your workshop topic, workshop schedule, the expected outcome, what participants will learn, what materials and equipment you will need, how you are going to document/publish/share the workshop results.
  • You submit your proposal by 20th of April.
  • You will then receive two proposals from peers to review.
  • You will get the chance to process the feedback from the peer review.
  • By May 30th we will be announce the final program.

About the H&D Summer Academy 2018

Questioning “the liberal promise of the Internet as a distributed mass communication tool”1 H&D promotes hands-on making, cross-disciplinary collaboration and encounters with technology as means of ‘going public’ and uses the H&D Summer Academy as an occasion to discuss and question proprietary software and closed systems. The workshops of the H&D Summer Academy shall function as satellites reaching a wider audience outside of the maker-space itself to pose questions such as: Who owns information? Who directs data flows and who enables or limits access to information? Living and working in a post-truth reality how can we stay or become informed users and critical makers? Can we (re)build independent environments that shape our future practices? How can the practice of ‘critical making’2 enable citizens to take part in debates around complex matters such as machine learning?

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