A Fablab-website “where the future is being made today!”
I recently discovered a website “where the future is being made today!” On www.fablab.nl, a Dutch website, you can find about anything on Fablabs (short for Fabrication or Fabulous Laboratory): it features interesting articles, shows Fablab initiatives in the Netherlands and beyond, offers an overview of machines you should definitely put in your own Fablab and directs you towards numerous audio- and videoclips. You can even e-mail the developers of the website if you need andy help, advise or support with setting up your own Fablab!
While you’re visiting this website, you should definetely check out the audioclip “The Making of a Personal Lab”: in the clip, dating from 2005, Neil Gershenfeld of MIT (the ‘founder’ of the Fablab) talks about a manufacturing-revolution in which “existing technologies and tools bring capabilities once held by huge facturies dowon to the personal level”. You can check the clip here.
Short Cut Leuven – participants sought
Participants sought for the art project ’Short Cut Leuven’ by Stijn Van Dorpe
Short Cut traces an imaginary straight line (a ’short cut’), via a group of walking people, through Leuven. The aim is to form a line and walk a trail between Naamsevest and Engels Plein, straight across private property, public buildings, streets and squares. In this way Van Dorpe reconnects the private to the public, while making us think about topics like “living in the city,” “loss of privacy” etc. More info.
Several reports on the E-Culture Fair:
As you might have read before on this blog, Social Spaces visited the E-Culture Fair in Dortmund last week. Via the “E-cultuur weblog” you can check out several reports on the Fair. For example, the blog directs you towards a report by Flanders DC which you can read by clicking here. The website of Virtueel Platform has some interesting links to a radio report, a live magazine, lots of pictures and a nice You Tube video clip (showing Social Spaces and the “Out of Curiosity” stand) you can watch here as well:
DEADLINE NIEUWE AANVRAAGRONDE STROOM 15 SEPTEMBER
Wat is stroom?
STROOM is een cultuursubsidie van de provincie Limburg die kansen geeft aan creatief talent. Deze subsidie geeft beloftevol talent een duw in de rug om een nieuwe stap te zetten in hun professionele ontwikkeling.
Stroom geeft power via twee beurzen.
Picture report: e-Culture fair Dortmund
Last week (23rd-25th of august) we presented our research group at the e-culture fair in Dortmund. You can view the pictures here.