OPEN CALL FOR DISTRIBUTED WORKSHOPS
Throughout the years H&D has been exploring and imagining different network
concepts and networked practices in many ways. Looking back at some of our
activities dealing with ‘Network Imaginaries’ we are getting very excited about
the upcoming Summer Academy!
Without rendering the current events as an opportunity we restructured our
annual H&D Summer Academy into a distributed workshop program. In earlier
editions we worked together with approximately 25 participants during 2
intensive weeks. While we promote the importance of physical encounters for
community building, making friends and allies, having discussions and start new
initiatives, we think its important to stay safe. Our proposal is to
collaborate with smaller groups in different places in the world, help each
other with developing and facilitating remote learning formats that will be
presented and shared online, with a bigger group of participants. In one week
in July we will be all hacking and designing in our own local communities or
at home while being connected with the larger H&D network. H&D will support the
different intiatives with resources and expertise, and by ensuring a learning
infrastructure that is accessible and available to all participants.
We therefore invite creative practitioners whose interest lie in critically and
practically engaging with technology, to join us in reflecting and reimagining
distributed practices. Whether it be fashion designers, system administrators,
or disobedient citizens—we invite the H&D community and the wider public to
learn together about network technologies in experimental and hands-on ways.
Under the overarching title 'Network Imaginaries' we will challenge and
activate participants to use and push the boundaries of existing technology and
programming platforms (webware, hardware, software), online/offline networks,
high and low tech (internet, IPFS, darknet, peer2peer, blockchain, bot
networks), and user experience, all in a practical manner—and while addressing
the ethical implications of the proposed technologies and processes.
Are you a collective or a group of people interested in workshopping topics,
technologies and practices revolving around 'Network Imaginaries'? This call is
for you!
How does the distributed HDSA work?
We will select 6 workshop initiatives.
You will have one month time to develop a 'workshop script' that is accessible
for anyone to join. This could be a translation of an already existing workshop
(developed for a physical space) or an entirely new workshop script developed
for this exceptional circumstance. That means a clear outline of the workshop,
a video tutorial if needed, or a well documented readme file, and a list of the
necessary equipment.
We offer a fee of 500€ for each workshop development including 100€ of material
costs.
The 6 scripts will be made available to all participants on the week of the
summer academy July 20-25
Workshop facilitators should be available for occasional questions from
participants during the workshop week July 20-25.
You will be welcome to also join any of the other proposed workshops during
that week, either as a collective or individual!
Submit your proposal here before May 15
<https://hackersanddesigners.typeform.com/to/bdaBOv>
Or read more on our website!
<https://hackersanddesigners.nl/p/Open_Call!_HDSA2020:_Network_Imaginaries>
The Summer Academy will take place July 20-25, 2020
AN OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS WILL FOLLOW ON MAY 15, 2020!
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out to me
julie...@hackersanddesigners.nl <mailto:julie...@hackersanddesigners.nl> or to
anyone at i...@hackersanddesigners.nl <mailto:i...@hackersanddesigners.nl>
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