Open Call for Participation! HDSA2022 Connecting Otherwise

Open Call for Participation! HDSA2022 Connecting Otherwise
Name	Open Call for Participation! HDSA2022 Connecting Otherwise
Location	Amsterdam, Berlin, Seoul, Aotearoa
Date	2022/06/02
Time	[[]]
PeopleOrganisations	Hackers & Designers, MELT, NEWS, DDDUG
Type	HDSA2022
Web	Yes
Print	No

>>> Deadline for participation sign up: 2 June 2022 <<<

>>> 참여 신청 기간: 2022년 6월 2일까지<<<

Open Call for Participation! HDSA2022 Connecting Otherwise

아래 한국어 버전

Join us for the distributed H&D Summer Academy – taking place 16-23 July 2022 in 4 different interconnected locations: Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Aotearoa (formerly known as New Zealand) / Berlin, Germany (+ online) / Seoul, South-Korea

As participant of the HDSA2022 you will be able to join one of the locations (nodes). All nodes will facilitate – in their own ways – the same workshop program. There will be moments in which all nodes will connect and there will be times where we follow workshops asynchronously. This edition is an experiment in decentralized organization and strives to connect the different nodes, while attuning to and leveraging the different local contexts.

Theme: Connecting Otherwise

Living in a global pandemic for the last two years made apparent how our internet use impacts our co-habitation with each other – other humans, other species – in social, material and psychological ways. The evolving monoculture of the handful of companies that mediate our online connectivity, as well as their pervasiveness and extractivist nature, has created a condition in which it is difficult to imagine alternative, affective, and sustainable ways of coexisting and connecting online.

Within the theme of 'Connecting Otherwise': we will explore the intersections of accessibility and sustainability of hybrid cultural work and techno-social life—the cultural, economical, ecological, and geographical implications of our increasingly complex entanglements with technology.

This year's summer academy will be facilitated and co-constructed with collectives that work in their respective local environments at the intersection of art, design and technology, environmental, queer, trans* and disability justice, free/libre/open source software development, and radical pedagogies. Together, we invite participants to join us in questioning, reimagining and putting into practice other conscious, creative, and response-able ways of working, creating, and co-existing online.

How does the distributed HDSA work?

By organizing the program in a distributed format, members of different communities are invited to engage with each other's collective practices through making things together and co-organizing workshops and experiments.

• The 1-week workshop program (HDSA) will take place in different locations (nodes): Amsterdam, Aotearoa, Berlin/Online, and Seoul.
• Each node has capacity to facilitate a group of 10-15 participants.
• Each node will take care of a safe learning environment that is considerate of the current COVID restrictions in their respective locations.
• During the HDSA, there will be moments you will be working with your node and other moments where all nodes connect, exchange and synchronize.
• The HDSA workshop program is comprised of 4 'workshop scripts' – workshops prepared by the different HDSA nodes. You will be able to follow all workshops in the different locations synchronously and asynchronously.
• All workshops are considerate of different levels of knowledge, backgrounds, and access needs. Additional support will be provided by the respective nodes.
• All workshop materials will be provided in English, but on-location activities may be facilitated in local languages that best suit the group.

Meet the nodes

Amsterdam: Hackers & Designers + Hackitects collective

Hackers & Designers is a non-profit workshop initiative organizing activities at the intersection of technology, design, art and education. By creating shared moments of hands-on learning H&D stimulates collaboration across disciplines and technological literacy. H&D organizes activities from the idea of a flattened hierarchy. 'Teachers' become participants, participants become workshop leaders – everyone is taken on a collective venture of shared response-ability – bringing in own expertise, urgencies and experiences. More about H&D: https://hackersanddesigners.nl/

Node-specific information:

• We will be hosting the H&D Summer Academy in person in different locations across Amsterdam, with one main base for the workshop days.
• We expect committed participation and attendence during the week from 10-17.00 CEST.
• There will be also a public program that takes place in the evenings on 3 days during the week.
• Participation is free of charge and donations are welcome.
• Additional material costs, daily lunches are self-organized by participants.
• The spaces that will host us will be wheelchair accessible. Please let us know in the form if you have any access needs that we should take into consideration.

Aotearoa: Place for Local Making + Negative Emissions and Waste Studies Programme (NEWS)

A Place for Local Making is a shared space for inspiring imaginative and caring ways of making and living together in our multispecies entanglement. Through making and thinking with materials at hand, and tuning into the more-than-human companions around us, we wish to grow new stories and ideas about how we could better relate with our material and ecological surroundings. Small, slow and simple is beautiful. We host, co-produce, support and welcome ideas from others.

The Negative Emissions and Waste Studies (NEWS) Programme is a free self-learning environment that runs on streets, parks, private homes, community centres, public art galleries, department stores, public schools, in the sea, and anywhere else. It uses only things that have been thrown away or can be found for free. We then play and experiment with them to make fun, pleasurable and (sometimes) useful objects, services, activities, etc., in domains including but not limited to electronics, sewing, ceramics, sound/music, micromobility, gaming, landscaping, food/drink, poetry, and love.

http://localmaking.org/

http://arecreative.org/

Node specific information:

• We will be hosting the H&D Summer Academy in person in Aotearoa (formerly known as New Zealand) in a variety of locations in the twin cities of Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
• We are available over the period of the Summer Academy (16-23 July 2022) and will organise specific times to suit us and the participants who sign up.
• Some activity will be in-person (at homes, community centres, and on the street), some online, and some asynchronous.
• Participation is free but any additional material costs need to be covered by participants.
• Daily lunches are self-organized by participants but we welcome food sharing.
• We mainly use English for local events but speak a variety of, and WELCOME, any other languages.
• Please let us know in the form if you have any access needs that we should take into consideration.

Seoul: Dot Dot Dot User Group

'Dot Dot Dot' can mean a variety of things: dot to dots, constellations, forest, the fediverse, electronic circuits, soundscapes and ellipsis. An ellipsis is a 'blank' that someone has to fill in, a 'silence' that is a time when people stay calm and listen, and an 'indescribable' meaning that it cannot be described in words. We believe that (non-verbal/non-human/the fediverse/queer) possibilities will be discovered through efforts to drift apart from the centrality of (verbal/human/the Internet/gender binary). The 'Dot Dot Dot User Group' is a group that plans, shares, and carries out personal/community-wise efforts that gradually relocate the foundation of our lives and existence onto decentralized/self-sustaining connections. https://dddug.in/

Node specific information:

• We will be hosting the H&D Summer Academy in person in Seoul.
• We expect committed participation and attendence during the week from 11.00 - 18.00 KST, which is including 1 hour lunchbreak. (Daily lunches are to be self-organized by the participants.)
• We communicate in Korean for local events. Events linking to other nodes synchronously may not be possible in Korean. For conversations with other nodes, participants can choose Korean and/or English and we recommend the use of automatic translator apps. Simultaneous interpretation is not available.
• Workshop scripts will be pre-translated in Korean.
• If there are extra workshop materials given in advance, we might be able to translate them in Korean.
• The space is on the second floor in the building without an elevator, and it is difficult for wheelchair users to access.
• Live transcription of Korean speeches is possible. Please let us know if you need it.
• The fee for in person participation (for the week) is 30000 KRW. However, the participants can also name the price according to their will. Free participation is also valid. Donations are welcome.

Berlin (and online): MELT

MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr) study and experiment with shape-shifting processes as they meet technologies, sensory media and pedagogies in a warming world. Meltionary (derived from "dictionary"), is a growing collection of arts-design-research engagements that cooks up questions around material transformations alongside impulses from trans* feminism and Disability Justice. Melting as a kaleidoscope like phenomena touches upon multiple topics at once: climate change, the potential for political reformulations, change over time and material transformation. Our node is hosted at Commo: http://commo-berlin.de. Commo is a space is run by queer, trans* and autistic people and can comfortably host a group of up to 15 people. We joyfully invite trans* and disabled people to participate – in-person and online participation are possible.

Our nodes’ motivation is to research, share and activate otherwise modes of connecting built on knowledges already present. Crip knowledges of how to stay connected while centering care became needed by non disabled audiences in 2020. While some forms of access were granted as nondisableds needed them (such as working from home), others remain unimaginable. Within these contradictions, what then are anti-assimilationist, accessible and trans* approaches to connecting otherwise? How can we move towards a point where we can choose our technological dependencies (because non extractive accessible tools exist) - intervene into existing systems - and build otherwise technologies of intersectional disability access? Our ethos of facilitating this Summer Academy begins from centering collective accessibility -- we work with collective conditions that help to establish ways of being together that center care in our node. Breaks, questions, non technical expertise and dancing will be celebrated.

More on our work: http://meltionary.com/

More on the physical space our node is hosted in: http://commo-berlin.de.

Node specific information:

• We will be hosting the H&D Summer Academy in person and online in Berlin, with potential occasional excursions into the city.
• We meet from Saturday and Wednesday (16.07.22 - 20.07.22) from 10:00 - 16.30CET (including a 1 hour lunchbreak).
• The fee for in person participation (for the week) is 75€ which includes a daily catered lunch (salads, soups, sandwiches), materials and supplies.
• The fee for online participation (for the week) is 20€ which allows us to ship you a package of materials and supplies ahead of time.
• No participant will be rejected due to lack of funds, please let us know and we will fund your participation.
• Accessibility: Our space is wheelchair accessible via a mobile ramp, we are securing an accessibile toilet (next door) presently. Our video conferencing system has automatic captions. Occasional translations into German or into ASL (American Sign Language) are possible. Please come scent-free or low-scent, and rapid-tested for covid. For more accessibility info on our space please read: http://commo-berlin.de.
• Please let us know in the form if you have any access needs, we will joyfully work to care for them.
• Due to limited spaces in our node we will privilege trans* and disabled people joining our node, in the form please write "Privilege Me" if that's you and we will prioritize your application.

How to participate?

>>> Please fill in this form to apply! <<<

There is a limited amount of spaces for participation available per node. If we get more submissions than spaces available we might need to make a selection. Please submit your form by June 2 latest. You will receive a confirmation of reception on June 3. And the final outcome on June 10. Write an email to juliette@hackersanddesigners.nl if you need some extra time.

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《해커스앤디자이너스 여름학교2022: 다르게 연결하기》 참여자를 모집합니다

2022년 7월 16일~23일

English version above

해커스앤디자이너스(H&D) 여름학교에 참여하세요! 이번 여름학교는 2022년 7월 16일부터 23일까지 서로 연결된 네 장소에서 열립니다. 장소: 네덜란드, 암스테르담 / 아오테우로와(뉴질랜드로 알려진) / 독일 베를린과 온라인 / 한국 서울

H&D 여름학교2022에 참여를 희망하는 분은 네 개의 장소(노드) 중 한 곳을 선택할 수 있습니다. 모든 장소(노드)는 같은 워크샵 프로그램을 운영하지만, 노드마다 각자의 방식으로 진행합니다. 노드들이 모두 연결되는 순간이 있을 수도 있고, 각자의 시간으로 워크숍을 따라가는 시간도 있을 꺼예요. 이번 여름학교에서 우리는 중앙에서 벗어나 분산적으로 서로 조직해보는 실험을 하고, 지역마다 다른 문화적 맥락을 조율하고 활용하면서 다른 장소들과 연결하는 노력을 해보려고 합니다.

주제: 다르게 연결하기

지난 2년 동안 팬데믹 상황을 겪으며 우리의 인터넷 사용이 다른 인간들, 생물종들과 공동으로 살아가는 것에 사회적, 물질적, 심리적으로 영향을 준다는 것을 확인했지요. 우리의 온라인 연결을 중개하는 소수 기업들이 우리의 모든 구석에 스며들어 추출하는 방식으로 문화를 획일적으로 진화시켜 왔고, 우리는 온라인에서 연결되고 공존하는 대안적이고, 정서적이며, 지속 가능한 방법을 상상하기 조차 어려운 상황에 놓이게 되었어요.

'다르게 연결하기'이라는 주제로 우리는 잡종적 문화 사업과 기술-사회에서 살아가는데 접근성 및 지속 가능성의 교차점을 생각하며, 삶에서 점점 복잡해지는 기술과의 얽힘이 유발하는 문화적, 경제적, 생태학적, 지리적 의미에 대해 탐구하려고 합니다.

여름학교는 올해 예술, 디자인, 기술, 환경, 퀴어, 트랜스* 정의와 장애인 정의, 무료/자유/오픈 소스 소프트웨어 개발, 진보적 교육학의 교차하는 지점에서 그들의 지역적 환경을 고려하여 작업하는 콜렉티브들과 의견을 나누며 함께 만들어가려고 합니다. 온라인에서 같이 일하고, 만들며, 공존하는 것에 있어 다르게 자각하고, 창의적으로 응답할 수 있는 방식들을 질문하고, 다시 상상하며 실천하는 H&D 여름학교에 참여자 여러분을 초대합니다.

흩어진 노드들은 여름학교를 어떻게 운영할까요? ?

프로그램을 분산된 형식으로 조직함으로써, 서로 다른 커뮤니티의 구성원들은 워크숍과 실험에 초대되어, 같이 만들고 계획하며, 커뮤니티들의 실천에 서로 참여할 수 있습니다.

• 일주일 기간의 워크숍 프로그램은 각기 다른 장소에서 벌어집니다: 암스텔담, 아우테우로(뉴질랜드를 지칭하는 마오리 족 언어), 베를린/온라인, 서울
• 각 노드는 최근에 벌어지고 있는 해당 지역의 COVID 제한 사항들을 고려하며 안전한 배움이 이뤄지는 환경을 신경 쓸 것입니다.
• H&D 여름학교의 기간 동안 당신은 당신의 노드와 함께하는 순간들도 있을 것이고, 모든 노드들이 연결되고 교환하고 동시에 있게 되는 순간들도 있을 것입니다.
• H&D 여름학교 워크숍 프로그램은 4개의 '워크숍 스크립트들'로 구성되어 있습니다. 이 워크숍들은 각기 다른 H&D 여름학교 노드들이 준비하고 있으니, 워크숍이 지난 후에도 당신은 다른 곳의 워크숍 모두를 따라갈 수 있게 됩니다.
• 모든 워크숍은 서로 다른 수준의 지식, 배경, 접근성에 대한 필요를 배려할 것입니다. 노드들은 개별적으로 부가 지원하게 될 것입니다.
• 모든 워크숍 자료는 영어로 제공되지만, 현장에서 진행되는 활동은 그 지역에 가장 알맞는 언어로 다뤄질 것입니다.

>>> 이 양식을 작성하여 신청하세요! <<<

다음 링크에서 참여자 모집 글(한글)을 확인 할 수 있습니다. https://dddug.in/

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