DMY Berlin 2011 design festival takes place at Berlin Tempelhof Airport, 1-5 June. Pixelache Helsinki will present two projects in this year's DMY Maker Lab:
OHANDA
OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware and design. It was first drafted at the GOSH!-Grounding Open Source Hardware summit at the Banff Centre in July 2009 and one of the first goals of the project is to build a service for sharing open hardware designs which includes a certification model and a registration. OHANDA is in process. The process is open!
Why can't we just use any copyleft license? In short: copyleft is legally based on copyright, which can not be effectively enforced in the physical world. The equivalent would be patents, but patenting hardware to make it open is slow and expensive.
The proposed solution with OHANDA is a Trademark. The trademark will allow the developer to connect a copyleft license with any kind of physical device through Ohanda. Think the trademark like other common certificate such as recycle or CE mark.
'Temporary photoElectric Digestopians [TpED]' are experimental e-tapas designed to provide an electric tickle on a heliotropic tongue. Fusing cooking with solar cell design, light energy is harvested by edible power plants and transformed into electrical energy. After the e-tickle has enriched the taste, the left over energy (kJoules) powers the body and flows further into nature as nutrient for the plants.
The TpED worklabs are a node of Bartaku's ongoing research 'PhoEf: The Undisclosed Poésis of the Photovoltaic Effect’. At the interstices of arts, science and ecology, PhoEf focusses on the relation between light and electrical energy. PhoEf fuses site specific micro-interventions, installations, experimental workshops/labs, writings and lectures/talks. Bartaku is a Brussels based artistic researcher and member of transdisciplinary lab FoAM.
More information: www.bartaku.net - www.flickr.com/photos/phoef - fo.am
DMY MAKERLAB
The DMY MakerLab serves as a public experimentation space for accessing new technologies, communicating and exchanging concepts. Inaugurated in the 2010 DMY design festival, the lab is the first large maker platform in Germany and was enthusiastically received by the press, public and professionals alike.
The lab unites inventors, designers and visitors in a workshop area fitted with some of the finest technologies and materials available, side by side with low-tech instruments and applications. Visitors may learn how to grow medicinal mushrooms, experience seasonal influences while working with fabrics, access and visualise open data and collectively map ideas. Moreover, they can engage in full day workshops on open hardware, benchmarking of environmental case studies or Cradle to Cradle principles.
OPEN HELSINKI @ DMY MAKERLAB
Pixelache programme director Juha Huuskonen has also curated the Open Helsinki section of DMY Berlin MakerLab (a part of Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 programme).
Open Helsinki features some prominent examples of the open and participatory design scene in Helsinki: YKON world simulation game, Low2No Camp of urban social innovations, data hacking with We Love Open Data and co-design of open processes with Open P2P Design.
