Trashlab explores experimental art-design-technology practice between hacker and maker cultures, in the context of re/up-cycling and the increased availability of new fabrication tools.
Trashlab’s objective is to build up a community of people (artists, designers, hackers, makers, re/up-cyclers, activists) who are concerned with material and electronic waste in contemporary society, and tackle this problem with creative and tangential approaches.We follow the aim to encourage a peer-based learning environment related to hacking electronics, repair practices, appropriate technology for renewable energy production/usage, digital fabrication, reusing and re/up-cycling materials.
Each month during 2013 we organise and promote aTrashlabRepair Cafe event at a different location.. In October, Kaupunkiverstas -- Helsinki City Library's new maker space on the site ofKohtaamispaikka in Lasipalatsi-- hosts the next repair café event on Wednesday 2nd October from 14:00-18:00. However, this is just a pilot event, and monthly events have been negotiated to take place in same location monthly during 2014.
Prototype Helsinkiand Kohtaamispaikka@lasipalatsi have organised theKaupunkiverstas(Urban Workshop) series of events which are planned for urban citizens, urban activists,...
Each month during 2013 we organise and promote a Trashlab Repair Cafe event at a different location.Arkadia International Bookshop(Nervanderinkatu 11, Helsinki) hosts September's repair cafe event onSaturday 7.9. from 12.00 - 17.00. It is likely to be the biggestTrashlabrepair cafe 'fix-fest' so far! Don't miss it, Tervetuloa, welcome!
Arkadiais a large second-hand bookshop and a venue for a wide range of events. They offer space for tranquility, writing and thought. They also have a chapel, a piano, a pool table, a boa and much else that is appealing. They take great pride in being a...
Each month during 2013 we organise and promote aTrashlab Repair Cafeevent at a different location. In July, Espoo Kunsthalle hosts the repair cafe event onSaturday 27 July 2013 klo 14.00 - 18.00. Soft drinks and snacks available.
Espoo Kunsthalle is an artist-led initiative to bring experimental visual, sound, & performance art to public space in and around the city of Espoo, Finland. We believe art can be used as a vehicle for social change and empowerment of marginalised communities. Projects present progressive contemporary artists to a wider public through interventions in public...
Each month we organise and promote aTrashlab Repair Cafeevent at a different location. In June, Kääntöpöytä hosts the repair cafe event onSaturday 15.6. from 14-17.
Kääntöpöytä(Turntable) is an urban garden in the middle of old railway yard in Pasila. Equipped with beehive, dry toilet and different alternative, sustainable food growing methods, it is a place for inspiration and information for farming in cities. Kääntöpöytä cafe will be open for coffee and tea, and possibly small snacks & bites from the garden (cash only).Consult this mapto help find it if you haven't been before.
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