Author Archives: juhuu
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Alternative WDC
Discussions about setting up an alternative to Helsinki WDC are going on at the moment… If you want to participate in the discussions, please drop an email to juhuu ((at)) juhuu.nu. (see previous discussion about Helsinki WDC here) UPDATE ON SEPT 14: So far 15+ organisations and 15+ people have expressed their interest in this [...]
Misc
Three Angry Men and the Big Bad WDC
(This posting continues the discussion related to my Helsinki WDC critique last week). Helsingin Sanomat newspaper featured Helsinki WDC critique as their main story in the culture section yesterday (unfortunately you need to be a registered subscriber to read the article). The three featured protagonists were myself, Teemu Leinonen from Aalto University Media Lab and [...]
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Helsinki WDC and the misunderstood openness
When Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 announced its theme to be ‘Open Helsinki – embedding design in life’, my first reaction was – excitement! Choosing openness as a theme seemed like a bold move from the Helsinki WDC organisers – a commitment to try out new things, to take risks, to support the realisation of [...]
News, Pixelache Festival
Utopian airship Aeromodeller2
One of the guests of both Pixelache and Mal au Pixel festivals this spring was Lieven Standaert, one of the members of Timelab (Ghent). In our festivals he presented Timelab’s Mini-CNC Kit project but he is also working on an ambitious project called Aeromodeller2. It’s a prototype for a ’90-meter, zero-emission airship that will never [...]
Keywords: timelab
Open calls, Pixelache Network
Piksel11 – open call
Piksel11 November 17-20 2011 Bergen, Norway \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organized in Bergen, Norway,and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances [...]
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DMY MakerLab results
Pixelache Helsinki and many other organisations from Finland participated in this year’s DMY MakerLab in Berlin. DMY Berlin had a special Finland country focus this time in anticipation of the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 year. Here are some glimpses of some of the activities that took place: Bartaku’s Temporary photoElectric Digestopians Worklab produced some [...]
Pixelache Network
Mal au Pixel: Altlabs
Some discussions that started in LabtoLab event in Nantes are continuing in Paris, in the 6th edition of Mal au Pixel festival. The Altlabs event took place this afternoon, featuring presentations by many independent labs: media labs, hacklabs, fab labs, biohacking labs, etc. Many of these independent labs manage to make a lot of things [...]
Keywords: labtolab, mal au pixel
Misc
LabtoLab meeting: re-defining media lab
During the past couple of days we had a chance to visit the LabtoLab meeting in Nantes, France. This meeting was an opportunity for people running media labs to exchange experiences, to plan collaborations and to discuss about methods and areas for common development. One of the concrete results of the event is the Wikipedia [...]
Recommended events
Low2No School of Activism
At the Low2No School of Activism anyone can learn how to create dozens of temporary restaurants for a night, how to mainstream urban gardening with simple boxes, how to build your own communal house, how to make your own bike-lane where you think there should be one and much more. These laid-back drop-in session are [...]
Misc
Debtocracy: how much of the Greek national debt is illegitimate?