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When:  Sunday March 1st

Time:    Let's meet up from 14.00 to 20.00

Where: Prototyping lab at K3, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University

Directions: building number 8 on the map at  http://mah.se/templates/Page____12998.aspx

Arrangement for those coming to Malmö:
It is just a 5 minutes walk from Centralen to K3, leave the building through the gate by Espresso House, take a right, cross the bridge on the left, and K3 is behind the first row of buildings. In Swedish the building is called "Konst, Kultur, och Kommunikation". Call 0708 655 284 once you are at the entrance in order to go in.

What you should bring:
Your Arduino board, sensors, nice ideas, fresh eyes and your own tools.
This time also some cakes/sweets, we have a birthday to celebrate.

What's gonna happen there:

When:   Sunday Jan 25th
Time:    Let's meet up from 14.00 to 18.00
Where: Electronics lab at DKDS, Copenhagen
Directions: http://ciid.dkds.dk/contact/directions/
Arrangement for those coming from Malmö:
Let's meet up at Centralen at 12.50. leaving on the 13.02 train
What you should bring:
Your Arduino board, sensors, some MDF of Plexiglass (the CIID guys have a laser cutter that works), nice ideas, fresh eyes and your own tools.
What's gonna happen there:
Arduino Community meetings are social gatherings to hack together and physically brainstorm while doing. After the meeting we will go out for a drink.

When:  Sunday Dec 14th
Time:    Let's meet up from 14.00 to 18.00
Where: Prototyping lab at K3, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University
Directions: building number 8 on the map at http://mah.se/templates/Page____12998.aspx
Arrangement for those coming to Malmö:
It is just a 5 minutes walk from Centralen to K3, leave the building through the gate by Espresso House, take a right, cross the bridge on the left, and K3 is behind the first row of buildings. In Swedish the building is called "Konst, Kultur, och Kommunikation". Call 0708 655 284 once you are at the entrance in order to go in.
What you should bring:
Your Arduino board, sensors, nice ideas, fresh eyes and your own tools.
What's gonna happen there:

D. Cuartielles spent two weeks (November 2nd - 15th, 2008) launching the Lab-in-a-box project together with the Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Thanks to the kind support of the Carolina Foundation, the CCEBA, and the Spanish Embassy (through the Education's Council) David could travel to Argentina and run a course for 25 high school teachers who are strongly involved in the use of new technologies in the classroom.

This is the seed for this new project that we expect will transform the way technology is perceived as an educational tool. David had a long conversation with some of the ministry's representatives regarding this topic and some of the other concerns that drive 1scale1 and other initiatives where David is involved. That interview has been transcribed almost fully and it is available at the ministry's weblog. Take a look at it here (it is in Spanish):

When:   Saturday Nov 22nd
Time:    Let's meet up from 14.00 to 18.00
Where: Electronics lab at DKDS, Copenhagen
Directions: http://ciid.dkds.dk/contact/directions/
Arrangement for those coming from Malmö:
Let's meet up at Centralen at 12.50. leaving on the 13.02 train
What you should bring:
Your Arduino board, sensors, some MDF of Plexiglass (the CIID guys have a laser cutter), nice ideas, fresh eyes and your own tools.
What's gonna happen there:
Arduino Community meetings are social gatherings to hack together and physically brainstorm while doing. After the meeting we will go out for a drink.

Call for 4-6 thesis workers in Interaction Design (BA or MA), Graphic Design, Product Design and related fields. 

INTRODUCTION

Lab-in-a-box is a project aiming the developent of educational materials for primary and secondary schools in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Natural Sciences, Geography, and Technology. The contents will link theory and practice and will allow for an easy transition between the physical and the virtual through the creation of mixed media exercises.

Furthermore, Lab-in-a-box will be working only with open source technologies (both software and hardware), will become a commercial product, but will also offer alternatives to those not able of purchasing it. 

GOALS

The general goals of the project are:

- Introduction of state of the art of technology into primary and secondary education

- Bridging the digital divide in education through the use of open source technologies

Specific goals for the project:

This is a FREE workshop call for K3 staff and students with a major in Interaction Design (BA, MA, or PhD level). K3 is the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, Sweden.

INTRODUCTION

1scale1 is proud to announce our first workshop on concept generation within the subject of multitouch technologies. The workshop is an internal activity for K3 members and will count with the participation and support of FLATFROG, NUI, TAT, and TACTEL. 

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?

This workshop is an opportunity to get your ideas into reality by discussing them with experts in the field. It is also a good chance to get access to interesting thesis jobs with one of the above mentioned companies. The application process is now open, we will select a maximum of 15 participants among the academic community. If selected you should be ready to commit yourself to working with the workshop during the two full days it lasts.  

We are running a one week Basic Arduino workshop for Atelier Nord in Oslo, Norway, October  6th  - 10th.

Practical things:
Workshop hours Monday-Friday 10-17
Workshop fee: 500 NOK
What to bring: Your own computer
Deadline for signing up: Friday October 3rd.
Workshop language: Swedish/English
Place: Atelier Nord, Wergelandsveien 17 (Kunstnernes Hus)

The workshop will be held by Tony Olsson and Tomas Lundqvist from 1scale1, Malmö.

If you are interested to participate, visit Aterlier Nord's website and send a short CV and motivation to office@anart.no

During the BusinessToButtons conference in Malmo, D. Cuartielles will introduce Physical Prototyping as a technique for interaction designers to create new artifacts. The lecture will be on June 12th at about 13.30 at the main conference hall.

Within the same context, but on Saturday June 14th, the 1scale1 team together with TENK's design group will host a workshop in creating a multiplayer wireless game in only four hours. During the session we will introduce the use of microcontrollers and other digital gadgetry in the production of interactive artifacts and software running in a computer as the main game engine.

The RagTag workshop was organized by the Performing Pictures group at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm in February this year. David Cuartielles spoke about the latest cases 1scale1 has been working with. You can take a look at the David's  talk documentation that has been released here recently.

The workshop included a series of lectures and practical sessions where practicioners presented ways to deal with technology applied to arts. The main focus was new forms of video both as a representation system, a narrative tool, a technological platform, and a performative tool.

David also collaborated with Bengt Sjolen in hacking several platforms for displaying pictures and moving images. Bengt's talk was very inspiring and was documented here.