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• Relearn starts from FLOSS culture and practices as a way to address the production processes and frameworks involving technology and culture, in the beginning in the field of graphic design, and in the second edition expanding to production and education in broader terms. A proposal for this third edition is to continue by focusing on technology as such.
• Questioning what it consists of, how it 'functions', and challenging the traditional narratives on it. In this moment in which any social, political and personal problem seems to be approached with a technological solution, it feels urgent to rework the assumptions and conceptions we have of technology.
• To give an idea of this kind of perspective, there were some interesting questions resulting from past events, as the following: What's the difference between 'tech' and 'technology'? How does a file system relate to an office? Can anything digital be 'immaterial', when it sits in data-centers or it moves over infrastructures? What happens when computing becomes 'invisible'? Are interface-design, packaging and blackboxing similar processes, how do they influence our relation to an object? How do user-friendliness and efficiency determine the way software and devices are developed?
• Hopefully this way of thinking about tools, networks and infrastructures can influence the summer school tracks, offering transversal elements to connect some points in the different worksessions, in relation to one's own practices and tools.
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Proposals

Text generation project (proposed by Hans L.)
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/text_generation
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tools : learn from existing ones in perl ,
make new ones in code one is familiar with (ie python..)
does it conncet with the " training common sense " proposal ?
- similar ways, different algorithms.. still at a different scale, the idea of 'prepared data'
there is some overlapping, but at the level of code there is some differences.. 
ways to put something in [blackbox/textgenerator] the output saying something about the working of the tool

Training common sense (proposed by Roel + Femke + Manetta; might work well in relation to proposal Hans L.)
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/commonsense
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maybe using pattern again would end up in the same process, so use it as a methodology instead?


On trinary logic, water calculation and other abnormal approaches to computing anita / martino
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/trinary
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the random seed issue /non binary isn t random  
set of exemples and tools to circulate - or - concentrated session on the question
chanlenging the binary in a logical framework


Wirelessness (working title) Roel + Dennis de Bel + Alejo Duque
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/wirelessness
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participating in the radio 'commons'...
scanning the spectrum / identifying wireless signals..
. physicality of wireless? meshenger?
need some more definition and focus - how to connect to other tracks


Data-/Network-/Film-City (working title) dennis / lorenzo tripoli
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/city
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beyond GIS.. Urban reconnaissance (toolkit developped by Lorenzo collectif)
can it be another 'transversal track', like a methodology that can be connected with the tracks? or way of translating the track into an approach to the city... 


New visuals for quantified self data natacha / vera / juliane
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/data_games
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Jangled Surveillance Kym
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/jangled_surveillance


Improvisation for humans and automatons Raphael Bastide
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/improvisation
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Our goal will be to build automatic digital musical instruments that can improvise in a group of humans and other automatons.
We will measure how much creative humans and automatons can be when playing together.
Also, we will try to establish a documentation of the behaviours implemented in improvisation.

reroam II -  jara rocha + ¿?
to keep thinking together as how we live within, construct and perhaps maintain learning situations 

last year's project ( http://osp.constantvzw.org:9999/p/reroam ) was methodologically complicated, but thematically and politically urgent so... here's second edition, second round.

material & bibliographical repository: http://relearn.be/r/Reroam_material_repository // http://relearn.be/r/practical::install-yourself // 

some new references/experiences coming from the PIIGS territories: http://escueladeafuera.net/ // http://observatoriopoeticassociales.org/ // https://laelectrodomestica.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/curso-cuidados-ciudad-e-infraestructuras-del-comun-como-cono-se-sostiene-esto/ // 

infrastructures for the learning while reproducing life: https://laelectrodomestica.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/infraestructuras-de-reproduccion-de-la-vida/
situatedness & displacement issues: https://laelectrodomestica.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/situating-oneself-autumn-laboratory/  
extitutionalization modes: http://www.newcriticals.com/exquisite-corpse/print

Infrastructural Thoughts

The internal network itself, as seen in last Relearn, is an interesting transversal layer. Initally a part of a track it became somehow an horizontal track, a structure to form an internal common ground to document but also questioning some points on internal networks, availability of the "internet", etc.. How can it be this year? 
Also, is GIT a given? What alternatives there are for "syncing" the summer school? Or what other ways to share materials can be set up internally? FTP, irc, soulseek, obscure p2p options.. -> Retroshare ;)

proposal from Olm-e : setup a local network wit a git server, a owncloud server, a pad and an irc server on a // do we really need all these 'services'?
other tools could be installed localy depending on the tracks (f.ex. streaming server, ... )

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Message from Bram Crevits
Salut Ludi
Regarding Relearn, i would like to propose a trajectory within the summerschool in August. There is a small preliminary project website to be found here: http://www.criticalclouds.be.? This is not really for publication but describes a bit the field i would like to explore. This could be done during the summerschool by a presentation/brainstorm/mapping session, inviting extra people for visits and with the goal of writing some kind of concept nota...
Best
Bram