On Eastermonday our bus will take off towards Istanbul. Now, just two short weeks before this adventure, we are surfing on a rather high wave of mad experiments. Watch here Vasiliki an Pan in our cellar playing about with a scale model of the expo. And then get hooked and follow us all the way to Istanbul! Continue reading
A visit at the pole factory “Stielfabrik”
We have been visiting a factory where two people make wooden handles for shovels and hammers from ash, and we intent working with them together. Continue reading
A rare historical catalogue of nomadic gear
In the context of our openwerk-equipment design research we have come across over a fascinating historical catalogue from a former suitcase company in Basel. We scanned it for you. You can download this marvel of 170 MB of visual and functional beauty here!
Economies of open
Here you find a rather nice movie about the economies of open that was done by the people from electromagnate.com – they are making a feature documentary on the international hackerspaces as well which should be finished rather soon now, we hope!
Continue reading
Allerleirauh | All-Kinds-of-Fur: Exhibition Project
An evolving exhibition about two related projects
- openwerk: nomadic design research collaboration (To be shown at DMY in June 2012)
- upstream: prospects through design (To be shown at the Museum der Kulturen Basel in September 2012)
From a general expo system towards the DMY
After our mad two day workshop we created the following chart, outlining for the first time the full potential of our nomadic expo system. Continue reading
A two-day workshop on flightcases as a medium
Just before Christmas we had this great workshop in HyperWerk, with students from several other institutions participating. School can definitely be fun! Have a look at the movie! Continue reading
mo’ to co! as a road trip towards mobile design innovation
Context
Interactive media and the web have brought us globalization and revolutionized the flows of information. The post-industrial transformation will affect means and methods of education and innovation. Continue reading
Research proposal mo’ to co!
mo’ to co! is a research proposal about the complex equilibrium of nomadic flexiblity and local stability. We hope to try this out through the establishment of a first waystation in Mulhouse, France. Continue reading
Research proposal swarmkit
swarmkit is about the development of equipment for the highly mobile institution, of customizable furniture kits and of a flexible system for expo-stand construction sets. Continue reading
