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If you are so smart why are you so poor?

 At work. About immaterial labor, digital economies and techno-societies.

 Date: July 25th - August 5th 2016

Location: De PUNT & WAAG

H&D believes designers and artists should be empowered with the tools of the digital realm including coding and hardware usage and construction. Conversely technologists should be more comfortable and effective in engaging in creative processes through familiarity with the vocabulary of designers and artists. All disciplines should become more comfortable in theoretical and social discourse, and thus be asking questions such as not only “can we” but “should we”.

During the summer of 2016 Hackers & Designers invites an international group of ambitious participants to learn by creating, researching, and discussing.

After a successful first edition in 2015, 2016’s summer academy will be developed in collaboration with Waag Society.

Keep up to date for the open call for participation.

At work.

The program will center around the controversial topic of immaterial labor, and the effects digital economies have on our current techno-society, – an on-going discussion at stake in both design/art and developer practices. H&D engages this year’s summer academy participants to go into discussion and critically reflect on their (digital) activities that exist outside/alongside the traditional wage-based definition of labor. What does it mean for the future of our practices to contribute to creative commons and open source projects, to self-initiate, to organize communities, to promote and publish on social networks, to perpetually generate content, to evolve multiple identities as bloggers, vloggers, mojo contributors…?

Progamme

The program will be divided in two blocks of each 5 days. Both program blocks fall under the thematic umbrella: ‘‘At work‘‘.

The first block ‘‘Soft work‘‘ has a focus on software construction along side looking at soft concepts including soft money, soft intelligence, soft power, soft or informal forms of organization of work etc. while taking place at De PUNT.

The second block: ‘‘Hard Work‘‘ focuses on Hardware construction along hard concepts like hard money, hard data, hard labor, etc., while taking place at the Fablab of Waag Society. The two blocks complement each other in terms of taught technical skills and in regards to the content.

Participants can apply for one of the two blocks or for the full program.

All workshops will be accessible for both the tech-savvy and newbie nerds.

Block 1 Soft work

July 25th-July 30th 2016

Curated by H&D, taking place at De PUNT, Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam

Mode of production: hands-on!

Workshopping, wire framing, software development & prototyping, designing, discussion

(Lineup to be announced)

Block 2 Hard work

August 1st-5th 2016

Curated by Waag Society & Hackers & Designers,taking place at Waag Society’s Fablab, Nieuwmarkt 4 Amsterdam

Research question: Does smart technology make us dumb?

Workshopping: Make an animate machine (bezielde machine)

Modes of production: hands-on!

Hardware hacking, wiring, soldering, prototyping and discussing while making a smart machine Public program

(Lineup to be announced)

The workshops will be contextualized with a public film lecture program, the Hackers & Designers Summer Talks.

For the lecture night Hackers & Designers and Waag Society will invites cross-disciplinary speakers to take the participants and the public into a deeper conversation around the topics investigated during the summer academy.

(Lineup to be announced)

DIY (Do it yourself)

The hands-on approach and the challenges that come with making as opposed to talking will stay central throughout the whole program. H&D believes that in order to develop a deeper understanding of the qualities and disadvantages of technology we need to look inside the black boxes of the technology that we heavily rely on in our daily physical and digital, and our private and professional lives. Therefore we urge the participants of the summer academy to open the box, look inside it, rummage through it or even make their own boxes.

DIT (Do it together)

Technologists will be invited to engage at the very beginning of the creative process. Similarly the designers and artists will be invited to experiment and engage with unfamiliar and deeper technological concepts with which they may not be immediately equipped. It is through Aanvraag e-culture: Hackers & Designers Summer Academy 2016 2 the collaborative approach where common vocabulary and understanding will arise, and be available in future endeavors beyond the Summer Academy.

Participants

Are you highly motivated, interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration and self-initiation?

Are you a professional practitioner in the fields of design, art, and technology in and outside of the Netherlands or an international undergraduate/graduate students?

Keep up to date for the open call for participation!

As soon as the open call is closed applicants will be vetted based upon submitted applications, motivation, portfolios, and a history of engagement and/or interest in technology.

Price

The full program inclusive an informal welcome dinner, daily lunch, free access to the public programs, an arduino kit: €350,00 (excl. BTW)

Price one program block: €200,00 (excl. BTW) Price public program: €5,00 entrance

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 '''If you are so smart why are you so poor?'''
+ At work. About immaterial labor, digital economies and techno-societies.
-At work. About immaterial labor, digital economies and techno-societies.
+ Date: July 25th - August 5th 2016
+Location: De PUNT & WAAG
-Date: July 25th - August 5th 2016
-Location: De PUNT (1st block), WAAG (2nd block), end presentation and lecture night, De PUNT
+H&D believes designers and artists should be empowered with the tools of the digital realm including coding and hardware usage and construction. Conversely technologists should be more comfortable and effective in engaging in creative processes through familiarity with the vocabulary of designers and artists. All disciplines should become more comfortable in theoretical and social discourse, and thus be asking questions such as not only “can we” but “should we”.
-Price: Full program inclusive an informal welcome dinner, daily lunch, free access to the public programs, an arduino kit: €350,00 (excl. BTW)
+During the summer of 2016 Hackers & Designers invites an international group of ambitious participants to learn by creating, researching, and discussing.
-Price one program block: €200,00 (excl. BTW)
-Price public program: €5,00 entrance
+After a successful first edition in 2015, 2016’s summer academy will be developed in collaboration with Waag Society.
-===Introduction===
-During the summer of 2016 Hackers & Designers will invite an international curated group of ambitious participants to learn by creating, researching, and discussing.
+Keep up to date for the open call for participation.
-After a successful first edition in 2015, 2016’s summer academy will be developed in collaboration with Waag Society. The program will be stirred by the title and curatorial framework ''At work. If you are so smart why are you so poor.'' The methodical emphasize will lie on a hands-on approach
-to learning.
-During the 10 day program the participants will be equipped with a cross-disciplinary vocabulary and the necessary scope to make more informed and ethical decisions.
+'''At work.'''
-===Particpants===
+The program will center around the controversial topic of immaterial labor, and the effects digital economies have on our current techno-society, – an on-going discussion at stake in both design/art and developer practices. H&D engages this year’s summer academy participants to go into discussion and critically reflect on their (digital) activities that exist outside/alongside the traditional wage-based definition of labor. What does it mean for the future of our practices to contribute to creative commons and open source projects, to self-initiate, to organize communities, to promote and publish on social networks, to perpetually generate content, to evolve multiple identities as bloggers, vloggers, mojo contributors…?
-Designers and artists, in a world moving more and more digital, should be empowered with the tools of the digital realm including coding and hardware usage and construction. Conversely technologists should be more comfortable and effective in engaging in creative processes through familiarity with
-the vocabulary of designers and artists. All disciplines should become more comfortable in theoretical and social discourse, and thus be asking questions such as not only “can we” but “should we”.
-The program will be center around the controversial topic of immaterial labor, and the effects digital economies have on our current techno-society, – a crucial and on-going discussion at stake in both design/art and developer practices. H&D invites this year’s summer academy participants to go into discussion and critically reflect on their (digital) activities that exist outside/alongside the traditional wage-based definition of labor. What does it mean for the future of our practices to contribute to creative commons and open source projects, to self-initiate, to organize communities, to promote and publish on social networks, to perpetually generate content, to evolve multiple identities as bloggers, vloggers, mojo contributors (mobile journalism)…?
+'''Progamme'''
-===DIY (Do it yourself)===
+The program will be divided in two blocks of each 5 days. Both program blocks fall under the thematic umbrella: ‘‘At work‘‘.
+The first block ‘‘Soft work‘‘ has a focus on software construction along side looking at soft concepts including soft money, soft intelligence, soft power, soft or informal forms of organization of work etc. while taking place at De PUNT.
-During the 10 day program the participants will get equipped with a cross-disciplinary vocabulary and approach and the necessary scope to make informed and ethical decisions.
+The second block: ‘‘Hard Work‘‘ focuses on Hardware construction along hard concepts like hard money, hard data, hard labor, etc., while taking place at the Fablab of Waag Society. The two blocks complement each other in terms of taught technical skills and in regards to the content.
-Concepts like encryption, crypto-currencies, post-scarcity, deep/dark webs, etc. will be addressed in a workshop manner. The hands-on approach and the challenges that come with making as opposed to talking will stay central throughout the whole program.
-H&D believes that in order to develop a deeper understanding of the qualities and disadvantages of technology we need to look inside the black boxes of the technology that we heavily rely on in our daily physical and digital, and our private and professional lives. Therefore we urge the participants of the summer academy to open the box, look inside it, rummage through it or even make their own boxes.
-===DIT (Do it together)===
+Participants can apply for one of the two blocks or for the full program.
-Technologists will, contrary to convention, be invited to engage at the very beginning of the creative process. Similarly the designers and artists will be invited to experiment and engage with unfamiliar and deeper technological concepts with which they may not be immediately equipped. It is through
+'''All workshops will be accessible for both the tech-savvy and newbie nerds.'''
-the collaborative approach where common vocabulary and understanding will arise, and be available in future endeavors beyond the Summer Academy.
+'''Block 1 Soft work'''
+July 25th-July 30th 2016
+Curated by H&D, taking place at De PUNT, Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
+Mode of production: hands-on!
+Workshopping, wire framing, software development & prototyping, designing, discussion
-===Participants===
+(Lineup to be announced)
-The summer academy will include international participants from both student and professional pursuits to build relationships and investigate new technologies and design media, which will jump start not only the academic careers in case of students, but also enrich existing and future professional careers with more technological tools, unique collaboration opportunities, a cross-disciplinary vocabulary, and an understanding of tech and design tools, all in a social and inclusive environment.
-Each day of the summer academy will be carefully programmed and structured with workshops, experimentation, and learning. During the workshops the participants will be challenged to use and push the boundaries of existing technology and programming platforms (web, hardware, software),
-networks online/offline (internet, peer 2 peer, beacons), and user experience (apps, web, installations, sensory organs), all in a practical manner as well as in regards to the content and ethical consequences.
+'''Block 2 Hard work'''
-Participants who have participated in the Hackers & Designers Summer Academy will at a minimum find a lower barrier to execution in technological mediums and design thinking and methodologies.
+August 1st-5th 2016
-The participants will have access to new tools and will develop personal networks for collaboration
-and assistance as they continue their future developing practices. Additionally, beyond hands-on
-experimentation with current technologies, participants will develop a foundation of theoretical knowledge valuable in the current and future public discourse.
-===Target group===
+Curated by Waag Society & Hackers & Designers,taking place at Waag Society’s Fablab, Nieuwmarkt 4 Amsterdam
-The Summer Academy is for professional practitioners in the fields of design, art, and technology in
+Research question: Does smart technology make us dumb?
-and outside of the Netherlands as well as international undergraduate/graduate students. The participants will ideally be highly motivated and interested in cross-disciplinary practices as well as self-initiation.
-Participants from all disciplines will be vetted based upon submitted applications, CVs, portfolios,
+Workshopping: Make an animate machine (bezielde machine)
-and a history of engagement and/or interest in technology. The ideal applicants will also have a record
-of self-initiated projects.
-Technology participants Technology participants primarily study and/or work in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, informatica, data science, bio engineering and/or physics.
+Modes of production: hands-on!
-Designers and artists Participants from the fields of design and/or arts are interested in digital culture, technology and engaging critically in discussions about new social and technological developments.
+Hardware hacking, wiring, soldering, prototyping and discussing while making a smart machine
+Public program
-The public program invites the broader public to engage in the topics of this year’s Summer Academy
+''(Lineup to be announced)''
-through film, lectures and discussion. It’s an opportunity to engage with participants, workshop
-leaders, lecturers and organizers with friendly curiosity and criticality, and join the discourse which
-hopefully will extend far beyond the 10 days of the event
+The workshops will be contextualized with a public film lecture program, the Hackers & Designers Summer Talks.
-===Progam===
+For the lecture night Hackers & Designers and Waag Society will invites cross-disciplinary speakers to take the participants and the public into a deeper conversation around the topics investigated during the summer academy.
-The program will be divided in two blocks of each 5 days. Both program blocks fall under the thematic umbrella ‘At work’.
+''(Lineup to be announced)''
-The first block Soft work has a focus on software construction along side looking at soft concepts including soft money, soft intelligence, soft power, soft or informal forms of organization of work etc.
-while taking place at De PUNT. The second block Hard work focuses on Hardware construction along hard concepts like hard money, hard data, hard labor, etc., while taking place at the Fablab of Waag Society.
-The two blocks complement each other in terms of taught technical skills and in regards to the content. Participants can apply for one of the two blocks or for the full program. All workshops will be accessible for both the tech-savvy and newbie nerds.
-====Block 1 Soft work:====
-July 25th-July 30th 2016
+'''DIY (Do it yourself)'''
+The hands-on approach and the challenges that come with making as opposed to talking will stay central throughout the whole program. H&D believes that in order to develop a deeper understanding of the qualities and disadvantages of technology we need to look inside the black boxes of the technology that we heavily rely on in our daily physical and digital, and our private and professional lives. Therefore we urge the participants of the summer academy to open the box, look inside it, rummage through it or even make their own boxes.
+'''DIT (Do it together)'''
+Technologists will be invited to engage at the very beginning of the creative process. Similarly the designers and artists will be invited to experiment and engage with unfamiliar and deeper technological concepts with which they may not be immediately equipped. It is through Aanvraag e-culture: Hackers & Designers Summer Academy 2016 2 the collaborative approach where common vocabulary and understanding will arise, and be available in future endeavors beyond the Summer Academy.
-Curated by H&D, taking place at De PUNT, Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
+'''Participants'''
-Mode of production: hands-on!
+Are you highly motivated, interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration and self-initiation?
-Workshopping, wire framing, software development & prototyping, designing, discussion
+Are you a professional practitioner in the fields of design, art, and technology in and outside of the Netherlands or an international undergraduate/graduate students?
-====Block 2 Hard work====
+'''Keep up to date for the open call for participation!'''
-August 1st-5th 2016
-Curated by Waag Society & Hackers & Designers,taking place at Waag Society’s Fablab, Nieuwmarkt 4 Amsterdam
-Research question: Does smart technology makes us dumb?
+As soon as the open call is closed applicants will be vetted based upon submitted applications, motivation, portfolios, and a history of engagement and/or interest in technology.
-Workshopping: Make an animate machine (bezielde machine)
-Modes of production: hands-on!
-Hardware hacking, wiring, soldering, prototyping and discussing while making a smart machine
+'''Price'''
-===Public program===
+The full program inclusive an informal welcome dinner, daily lunch, free access to the public programs, an arduino kit: €350,00 (excl. BTW)
-The workshops will be contextualized with a public film screening curated by Jeffrey Babcock and a public lecture program, the Hackers & Designers Summer Talks.
+Price one program block: €200,00 (excl. BTW) Price public program: €5,00 entrance
-Both programs attract a bigger audience and therefore serve as a stage for projects created during the Summer Academy. For the lecture night Hackers & Designers and Waag Society will invite cross-disciplinary speakers to take the participants and the public into a deeper conversation around the topics investigated during the summer academy. The speakers promise an informed evening offering insights and diverse perspectives into their research, professional and artistic practices, but all the while maintaining the satirical and humorous approach of Hackers & Designers.