Re-imagining Smart

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Re-imagining Smart
Name Re-imagining Smart
Location De Ruimte
Date 2017/08/02-2017/08/03
Time 10:00-18:00
PeopleOrganisations Gottfried Haider
Type HDSA2017 - On and Off the Grid - call for participation
Web Yes
Print No

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This two-day workshop explored the subject of autonomy in a networked world. Like castaways stranded in a post-Google society, we attempted to design, build and program our own devices and appliances - using relic open source software, silicon from the waste of the smartphone industry, and post-consumer composite materials to give them shape. The outcome is a variety of prototyped devices which, ironically, reflect on the abundance of “smart” objects populating the market such as Amazon dash buttons, IoT fridges, tweeting coffee machines, etc.

The objects created are critical, funny, or genuinely useful. Containing our own software sketches (written in Processing) in their cores, and working either solitarily or in a (local-) networked fashion, they are meant to give us comfort in the times when we feel a sense of loss for our watchful corporate overlords.


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