Worksession_Objects_in

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OMEWORK: FICHAS / INDEX CARDS or everyone to fill in by Friday 04/03/2016, 10:00 ERE: http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/Fichas_Objects_in_Common
-- Contact details / Url
-- How do you introduce yourself to someone?
-- What is your name?
-- Geographical location(s)?
-- How would you define your activity(ies)/job(s)/profession(s)?
-- Can you say something about the space/collective you are linked to? (for example Name? How would you describe the space/collective? Why?)
-- Do you have a price list / fees? How does this function: do you charge for services or for the use? Membership/fee? How much, under what conditions?
-- Do you retain ownership of the work/works once transferred? What about licenses?
-- How does this space/collective function? Organisation wise - funding?
-- What about documentation?
-- What about knowledge transmission/education? Does this play an active role in your activities/space? How?

Introduction
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When is an object ’common’ and what does it mean to have it ’in common’?
Designing and making objects under Open Content licenses can produce, reproduce or block a myriad of possible relations. Your geopolitical situation, the resources you have available and your daily requirements change the connections that a ’common’ object can generate. In this hands-on worksession we want to look at these aspects of creating digital and physical objects, in day to day practices.

The participants
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You have been invited by Constant vzw from Brussels for this worksession in Medialab Prado. The programme was made by Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Susana Moliner Delgado & Laura Fernandez (with feedback & support from the Constant team).

In the Objects in Common worksession about 20/25 people will work for a whole week on 5 areas of work (see below).
Most participants are linked to a fablab/hackerspace/makespace, or their geographical location influences their practice profoundly.
A few are linked to academic institutions, a few to arts instutions, others are self-run or have made their own model.
Almost all people have an active "maker" practise
Almost everyone has been invited, to make the group as diverse as possible, with complementary competences, yet no guaranteed consensus.

The dayprogramme
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10:00 - 13:30 Hands-on session in Fablab @ Medialab Prado - http://medialab-prado.es/article/donde_y_cuando
Lunch (get ticket from An)
16:00 - 20:00 Area of work in La Cantina @ Medialab Prado

* The mornings: Hands-on
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In the morning we work in the fablab of Medialab Prado. We only deal with with existing projects involving "common" objects, this could be in the form of a digital file from a repository.
Small groups will form, and they will choose a(n) object(s) to work on.

This digital/physical object should be transformed/merged with another/deconstructed, made in to a digital and physical object, documented and shared again.

For example : how a bookstand ( http://libreobjet.org/objects/bouctje/project.html ) can become an armchair ( http://libreobjet.org/objects/reeboek/project.html) .

We have 4 mornings to work on this: Tuesday 08/03, Wednesday 09/03, Thursday 10/03, Friday 11/03.

Of course we will bump into problems, of a legal kind or already in the digital/physical universe.

There are 4 threads to choose from:
1) continue, build upon an existing project
2) merge two projects
3) transform a project
4) deconstruct (and reimagine/refabricate)

* The afternoons: Areas of work - one per day
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In the afternoon we work on one specific "area of work".
Every theme will have a tight list of what we will talk about (and how long) and how we will document it.

All themes are interconnected - they are not separate, but we will highlight them as they all have their own issues and potential.

- emphasis on documentation
- structured thinking moments
- all together or in smaller groups
- collective brainpower
- imagining other scenario's, present or future

MONDAY 07/03
-- Spaces+ relations (fablabs, hackerspaces, makerspaces ..)
A fablab is not a hackerspace &&&
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace

Why these distinctions?
What if none of these spaces are available or possible?
Does the machinery define the space?
What about access, membership, free entrance (or not)?
How do you get funding (or not)?

TUESDAY 08/03
-- Repositories, sharing platforms, documentation (manuals, videos).
   Question the status platforms itself, and how they influence/determine the object.
   Services vs selfhosting. Relations produced through/by specific
   platforms (licenses, terms of use ...); desired relations --
   archipelago, p2p.

What relationship does the repository create towards the object?
What will the platform evolve to?
What are real and imaginary documenting strategies?

WEDNESDAY 09/03
-- Resources, materials and relations (geopolitics, ecology, economy)
Depending on your geographical location, space, budget, politics, funding, the machines you work with, the material will vary greatly.
How do you deal with recycling / reuse ? Where do you get your material (wood, plastic..) ?
With Blanca Callen (one day participant)

THURSDAY 10/03
-- Licenses and the relations they produce. Is the current open content legal context sufficient ? What about collective work? What about the digital/object legal relationship ?

What about collaborative work and merging several projects (with different licences) ? D oes the most closed license always win? W hat do you do with Share Alike? How is the physical object linked to the digital one? This is a globally fragmented model - how does it work in your context?
With Malcolm Bain from id-lawpartners (one day participant)

FRIDAY 11/03
-- Digital to physical(fileformats, vectors, limitations, transformations)

Describing a ph ysical object in a digital way includes making choices, your software will determine quite a lot.
What software do you use? What machines can you use or do you have access to? Is it proprietary or self-built? What digital format does the machine understand? What happens i f you change from one programme to the other?

What system do you use to document? Does it allow disagreement, can it go beyond a fork?

Every machine you use for doing this digital to physical translation has it's own specificities:
---> a 3d printer adds layers (and needs for example support structures)
---> a Cnc takes away material, such as wood, or foam and it is impossible to make 90 degree sharp angles

SATURDAY 12/03
10:00 - 14:00
Round-up and aperitif!

The Objects in Common team will be available for questions afterwards

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TRAVEL:
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- The Madrid airport has 4 terminals - it's huge
Easiest way to go from the airport to the centre is with the bus, which goes to Atocha Train Station
(have 5 euro's ready)
Express Bus 24h - Línea Exprés Atocha-Cibeles-O'Donnell-Aeropuerto
Big and yellow: http://www.esmadrid.com/bus-expres-aeropuerto-madrid

(you can also take the metro, but it's with a few changes and quite some staircases)
http://www.aeropuertomadrid-barajas.com/transportes/como-ir-en-autobus.htm

PRACTICAL:
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- Monday 07/03/2016 we start at 10:00

- address of Medialab Prado:
Plaza de las Letras. C/ Alameda, 15 · 28014 Madrid (Spain)
Metro: Atocha (L1)
Bus: 6, 10, 14, 19, 26, 27, 32, 34, 37 and 45 lines
http://medialab-prado.es/article/donde_y_cuando

- my number : Wendy Van Wynsberghe
+ 32 476 89 06 58