Open Materials – Crystals, Communities, Concerns

The Open Materials symposium displays the outcomes of a day of hands-on workshops – of disassembling electronic waste to discuss lifecycles of electro-active materials, cooking crystals to rethink devices, and debating the informal maker communities that form around environmental sustainability based on a case study of Accra.

Moreover – four invited speakers will present practice-based and ethnographic explorations of ‘prototyping environmental sustainability’ based on approaches of community science, citizen science, biohacking and critical maker culture.

Date/Time
December 4, 2019
17.30-20.00

Program

17:30 Welcome
Michelle Christensen and Florian Conradi

17:40 Parcour – Workshop Résumés
The Disassembly Line / Lilo Viehweg
Crystal Urgency / Lisa Hoffmann
Collaborating for Impact / Gameli Adzaho

18:00 Talks

Open Science Communities & Sustainability – Experiences from Accra to Berlin
Gameli Adzaho /
Global Lab / Africa Open Science and Hardware

Prototyping Resilience in Brandenburg
Merle Ibach /
Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel

Extinction of a Paradise
Monik Danuwidjaja /
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau

BioLab
Alessandro Volpato /
Biolab, Top e.V., Berlin

19:00 Get-Together

The Open Materials Symposium is organized by the research group Production Possibilities of the Maker Culture at Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin.