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*Mode of production: hands-on!
*Mode of production: hands-on! wire framing, software development & prototyping, designing, discussion


*Workshopping, wire framing, software development & prototyping, designing, discussion
*Workshops: [[Dowse | Dowse – The Privacy Hub for the Internet of Things]], [[Internet of Bodies]], [[Networked Labor and Collective Intelligence. On mechanical turks and machine learning | Networked Labor]]


*Topics: Crypto- & decentralized currencies, digital economies & mechanical turks!
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*Workshopping: [[Modem Workshop|Modem Workshop. A(n) (im)practical introduction to Hertzian space.]]
*Workshop: [[Modem Workshop|Modem Workshop. A(n) (im)practical introduction to Hertzian space.]]


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

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Open call for participation

Are you interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration and self-initiation? Are you a professional practitioner in the fields of design, art, and/or technology, in and outside of the Netherlands. Or are you an international undergraduate/graduate student and want to widen your horizon? Join the H&D Summer Academy 2016!


  • All workshops will be accessible for both the tech-savvy and newbie nerds. Spoken language will be English


→ Sign up HERE. Limited spots available.



Introduction

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.


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…?


Progam

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


Block 1 Soft work: 25 – 30 July 2016

at De PUNT, Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam


With Dyne (Freecoin), Hack Your Future, Technoflesh (Simone Niquille) & Carina Namih, Nicolas Malevé (Constant Association for Art & Media)


  • Mode of production: hands-on! wire framing, software development & prototyping, designing, discussion
  • Topics: Crypto- & decentralized currencies, digital economies & mechanical turks!


The first block Soft work focuses 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.


Block 2 Hard work: 1 - 5 August 2016

at Waag Society’s Fablab, Nieuwmarkt 4 Amsterdam

The participants will be developing projects, with technical support by the workers of the Fablab. Line-up for lectures and lightening workshops to be announced.

With Dennis de Bel & Roel Roscam Abbing


  • Mode of production: hands-on!
  • Hardware hacking, wiring, soldering, prototyping and discussing while making a smart machine



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.



H&D Summer Talks: August 5th 2016

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

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

(Program coming soon)


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 engaged 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.


Price

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


  • Price for one program block: €200,00 (excl. VAT)*



  • *Joining one of the two program block is possible in exceptional cases. Participants who sign up for the full program are prioritized in the selection process.


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You can find the print-able PDF version of this years program HERE.


See also the documentation of last years Summer Academy: HDSA2015


In a more elaborate version: Book sprint Summer Academy 2015 print documentation


> Keep up to date about program announcements.


The Hackers & Designers Summer Academy is developed in collaboration with: Waag Society

generously funded by: Stimuleringsfonds


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