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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
juli...@hackersanddesigners.nl
<mailto:juli...@hackersanddesigners.nl> or to anyone at
in...@hackersanddesigners.nl
<mailto:in...@hackersanddesigners.nl>
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