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This study group/cluster of learning opportunities relates to emerging practices & communities mobilising around ‘open design’, crafts, and computer-aided manufacturing or electronics. We also look at how connections can be made between different skills, ways of doing, and traditions in the eastern Baltic Sea Region.
Following all the openness that has been around in Helsinki this year, as part ofWDC,ADCandOK Festival, we invite you to get involved in a _very_ Open Workshop weekend!
What happens in the workshop is open. How it gets done is open. What to spend the budget on is open. Participation is free and open, however based on email registration in advance. A reasonable amount of money will be on the table at the beginning. Those attending the workshop will have to collaborate, discuss, make decisions, and do it together. The process will be documented by Antti Ahonen, and has to be accountable...
The e-embroidery workshop was organized byRamyah Gowrishankar and Kati Hyyppä 17.-18.3.2012 in Helsinki at the Cable Factory as a part ofPixelversity. The workshop explored the marriage of traditional embroidery and electronics, embracing crafting traditions and open design. The workshop was supported by the helping hand ofAndrew Gryf Patersonfrom Pixelversity,Kässämartatwho provided their experience of stitches, andTAUKOclothing brand, who provided recycled fabrics for the workshop.
The workshop started with a brief introduction to the worlds of embroidery and electronics, after which the...
You‘ve been involved in Pixelache Helsinki activities/festival past and/or present?Join us in our open map workshopcharting out the connections among the Pixelache -related scene(s), as a contribution to Invisible City WDC2012 event (facebook event).
Our plan is to map and visualize the history and connections between different activities, organisations and people in the digital culture scene of Helsinki / Finland. We are joined by Minna Henriksson, who has worked previously onsocial-mapping projects. This occasion we will make our relational map on paper, and useDOT languageto make a...