[resource-net] Open Call for Applications | 'Coming Soon': Fabrication, Internet of Things, and Design Fiction | Feb. 2016

[Rachel Uwa]

hi Resourcers!

has been lovely meeting many of you at the recent Vorspiel preparation
events at ACUD! Here's some information on my upcoming program
in February taking place not in Berlin but in Italy at the Arduino/Casa
Jasmina
facilities! It's my most ambitious project to date.

Would be lovely if you could share the info with your networks. It's
particularly interesting for
those working at the intersection of art, technology, and design and those
envisioning alternatives to our future society!

thanks in advance for sharing!
and happy holidays to you all !

warmly,
Rachel



'Spaceship Dance', a project investigating the notion of the body as an
instrument by simulating space-age courtship dances, was conceived and
fabricated by Martyna Marciniak in our previous four-week program,
Fabricating Empathy.
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School of Machines, Making & Make-BelieveCall for Applications | 'Coming
Soon': Fabrication, Internet of Things, and Design Fiction

*PROGRAM DATES:* 1 February - 28 February 2016
*Special Holiday application deadline: *26 December 2015
*Regular application deadline:* 1 January 2016

info at schoolofma.org
schoolofma.org

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*Can we create connected devices which reflect the subtleties and
complexities of our human nature? Can we fabricate objects that lead to the
creation of new cultural norms? What is the role of ethics in the creation
of a new connected world?**Join us for this special program in partnership
with the Officine Arduino, Fablab Torino, and Casa Jamina communities,
taking place at their facilities in Turin, Italy.*

In our four-week program* "Coming Soon", using a hands-on approach, we will
investigate the creative and expressive possibilities of Internet of Things
technologies, electronics and sensors, and gain a foundation in digital
fabrication and design fiction methodologies.

Inhabiting a fictional narrative, students will dream up inventive ideas
for new smart objects and with the aid of our instructors and other
professionals, learn the proper tools and processes needed to create and
communicate their own vision of the future.

Starting with basic prototyping through to advanced fabrication techniques,
making use of the latest digital fabrication tools within the Officine
Arduino community facilities, we will work through the entire process of
design from initial narrative and conception through rough prototyping. At
program's end, we will present a fully documented performance and
exhibition of our final objects in Casa Jasmina, the connected home of the
future conceived by science fiction writer Bruce Sterling and Massimo
Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino project.

The infiltration of smart devices into our lives is coming soon. Currently,
corporations and even governments are investing billions to fund research
and manufacture up-and-coming networked objects designed to "make our lives
easier". But what are the implications of this?

Throughout the program, we will collectively construct the mythologies and
belief systems we inhabit, as a means to speculate around the possible
impacts contemporary exploration may have on future society.

Visit our website to learn more and submit an application:
http://schoolofma.org.




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