[aha] garage science

[ladyfest pavia2008]

Magari lo sapete già tutti, ma nel caso che no, a fine gennaio/inizio
febbraio a Madrid c'è questa cosa bellissima, GARAGE SCIENCE!
http://medialab-prado.es/article/taller-seminario_interactivos09_ciencia_de_garaje

*Call for projects and papers*

*Medialab-Prado issues a call for the submission of papers to be publicly
presented in a Seminar (January 28 and 29, 2009) and projects to be
collaboratively developed in a workshop (January 28 through February, 2009)
within the context of the Interactivos?'09: Garage Science event.
*


*Garage Science*

The socialization of technology and the accessibility of information
available on the Web make it increasingly easy for anyone to have the
possibility of building a home laboratory. Garage science is nothing new but
home laboratories are connected now more than ever before. There are home
laboratories of all kinds: technology factories, chemistry or biology labs,
artists' studios, places to rehearse, etc.

These home laboratories have a worldwide scope via the Web, which serves as
a space for the dissemination of projects and the exchange of knowledge and
techniques. These online communities are accompanied by a proliferation of
onsite events, such as dorkbots, barcamps and hackmeetings, where people who
only knew each other via the Web can meet face to face and share their
achievements and experiences.

The communities formed this way provide citizens with the capacity to
develop scientific-technical knowledge comparable to what is produced in the
major laboratories. "Citizen science" can serve to explore questions such
as: How are the foods we eat made? What possibilities exist in biogenetic
research? What is the code that makes the machines we use work? How are
those machines manufactured? Based on this knowledge, experimental and
critical formulations and objects can be produced proposing new paths and
goals in these fields.

*Interactivos?'09* aims to explore these practices, where art, science and
technology meet. We invite the participants to turn medialab into a garage
laboratory where low-cost, accessible materials are used to develop objects
and installations that combine software, hardware and biology. There's
license to fail!


-- 
LadyFest Pavia- Sept 2008

http://www.myspace.com/ladyfestpavia2008
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