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Utopia läpäisee Helsingin toukokuussa

Todellisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen kaksivuotinen suurprojekti Utooppinen todellisuus avaa laboratorionsa ovet viikoksi ja kutsuu yleisön Utooppiselle alueelle 9.-15.5.2012. Utooppinen alue on seitsemän päivän mittainen koe: mitä tapahtuu, kun utopia lävistää elämämme? Voiko arki olla teos ja taide yhteiskuntaa mullistava voima? Voiko yhteinen elämämme olla taiteen kanvaaseista se suurin, merkittävin ja vaikuttavin? Utooppiselle alueelle pääsee monia reittejä: viikon [...]

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Jennifer Gabrys visits Camp Pixelache 2012

Jennifer Gabrys, Senior Lecturer and Convener of the MA Design and Environment from Goldsmiths University, London, visits Pixelache events in May. Gabrys gives a Talking Trash(lab) lecture on Thursday 10 May at Aalto Media Factory and is a plenary speaker and facilitator of Camp Pixelache subtheme  ‘The art of gathering environmental data‘ on Saturday 12 May [...]

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Free City (Vaba Linn) in Tallinn gathers students, experts & visionnaires

FREE CITY event in Tallinn calls students, experts and visionnaires to meet on 26th-27th April in workshops and dialog-actions for learning to use different open-source tools inside and outside IT, to study the method of action in open-source paradigm and find open-source solutions to start your own new initiatives in analysing, influencing and planning our urban [...]

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Camp Pixelache calls for Open Design demos – deadline 27 April!

Within the context of Camp Pixelache, Demo Stalls on Open Design, Crafts and Manufacturing will be exhibited at Arbis on 12 May, on the same floor where Camp Pixelache takes place. We  are calling out for open design, trashlab and hacklab demos to join the Open Design stalls. Deadline for proposing your demo is 27 [...]

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AAVE Alternative AudioVisual Event 12.-15.4. in Helsinki

AAVE Alternative AudioVisual Event is a Helsinki-based yearly festival. The mission of the festival is to represent, promote and showcase different forms of audiovisual arts. Festival activity consists in screenings, live cinema, workshops and side venues. AAVE is not a mere film or media art festival but aims at opening the gates into the vast [...]

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OPEN KNOWLEDGE FESTIVAL – CALL FOR PROPOSALS

This year’s Open Government Data Camp and Open Knowledge Conference are joining to form a week-long celebration: the Open Knowledge Festival. This pioneering event will include an action-packed week of lectures, seminars, workshops, hackathons, coding jams, and interactive sessions that will bring together individuals and organizations from a wide variety of backgrounds to exchange ideas, make [...]

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‘Virtual War’ Documentary Pre-Screening, This Thursday 8.3. at 15:30

Pekka Niskanen: VIRTUAL WAR (English subtitles, 58min) press / pre-screening / free entry Thursday, 08.3. at 15:30 at Cinema Maxim 1 (Kluuvikatu 1), Helsinki On next Thursday there is a chance to see  Pekka Niskanen‘s new documentary Virtual War which is filmed partly in online virtual reality Second Life. In the film Chechen refugees living in [...]

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OGDcamp + OKCon = OKFestival

This year’s Open Government Data Camp and Open Knowledge Conference are joining to form a week-long celebration: the Open Knowledge Festival! This pioneering event will include a full week of lectures, seminars, workshops, hackathons, coding jams, and interactive sessions that will bring together individuals and organizations from a wide variety of backgrounds to exchange ideas, make [...]

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Urban Activism in Post- Socialist Cities Workshop in Tallinn, 14-20th June

Linnalabor invites you to an international workshop taking place 14 – 20 June 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia. The workshop is part of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) Grundtvig and it is organized by Linnalabor (Estonian Urban Lab). You need to apply for the workshop, deadline is now past (Wednesday 29.2.).

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Tomorrow 14.2 Open Data Meetup. Policy issues: What changes when data opens?

The event is dedicated to open data and especially the societal impact of open data.  The speakers will present a variety of macro level perspectives on open data. There will be speeches on how open data is changing the citizen participation, activism, journalism and business. After the presentations we’ll have an open Q&A session with [...]

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