RIXC Center for New Media Art offers a unique experience for 30 participants (under the age of 30) who are eager to develop new ideas and participate online in an international ideathon this time is organized by Public Art Lab in Berlin! All participants will also have the opportunity to receive the participation certificate of the AugE project ideathon!

Augmented Europe (AugE) is a joint project of 4 European art centers who want to makeEurope a better place by 'prototyping' new ideas, solutions and innovative policies on social inclusion (MEET, Milan), intercultural understanding (Public Art Lab, Berlin), nature and climate change (RICX Riga) and sharing economy models (MADE, Tessaloniki) - funded by the Europe for Citizens programme.

This is already the second ideathon on the series of 4 ideathons, hosted by Public Art Lab in Berlin and taking place on December 9.  The goal of this ideathon is to create intercultural understanding by connecting people and places in Europe and their neighbouring countries.

The one-day Berlin Ideathon on 9 December 2020 will explore new intercultural narratives and digital interfaces to bridge the diversities and values of our cultures.

Three keynote speakers represent three approaches and methods about connecting people and places in a 15 min. talk and prototype new ideas in three breakout sessions on zoom with the 150 participants.

If you are under 30 y/o, speak English and are familiar with digital tools, you can join 150 other young people from Berlin, Milan, Riga and Thessaloniki.

 

Connecting People and Places - topics and speakers

Topic 1 - Social inclusion for migrating cultures
Which intercultural narratives contribute to welcome, understand and include migrating cultures in our local environments? What are communicative platforms and forms of approaches? How can we facilitate social inclusion?

SHOWCASE 1:
Weltstadt / World City
by Matze Görig, artist of Schlesische 27, Berlin
For the exhibition 'World City - Memory and Future of Refugees in Model' the NGO Schlesische 27 invited representatives of the migrating cultures from Africa and the Near and Middle East to design  residential houses, schools, prayer and business buildings from their memories to trigger an understanding about their living forms. The models were built out of cardboard and wood and presented as a walk-in urban landscape, a "cosmopolitan city" on an exhibition area of around 500 square metres. 

https://www.s27.de/portfolio/weltstadt/

Topic 2  - Translocal activism for cross-cultural exchange

How to create an activist translocal dialogue by empowering people and connecting places?

SHOWCASE 2:
SMSlingshot and G-Frame
by Christian Zoellner, co-founder of VR_Urban and The Constitute designer, artist and professor at University of Art and Design Halle
Reclaim the Screens! The SMSlingshot is a tangible device to empower people to write own statements and catapult them on the screens and walls of our cities where they will be projected as a colored splash. Two SMSlingshots at two different places can connect people and places to lead a translocal dialogue.
http://connectingcities.net/project/smslingshot

 

Topic 3  - Telematic performance in pandemic times 

How to create telematic scenarios and networked interfaces in times of social distances?

SHOWCASE 3:
Neuro-Knitting Beethoven
by the media artists Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet
Originally planned as a live tour across Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, and Shanghai, Neuro-Knitting Beethoven has been adapted into an interactive concert installation. While a pianist is playing and wearing an EEG helmet; brainwaves are transformed through data visualization and fed into a knitting machine, which produces a brainwave-patterned scarf at the artist’s studio in Talinn, Estonia. This interplay of neural impulses and knitting process is then projected in real-time back to the concert hall. 

NEURO-KNITTING BEETHOVEN by Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet is a co-production with the Goethe-Institute Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Center and Goethe-Institut Seoul and Art Center Nabi within the framework of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary.

http://www.publicartlab-berlin.de/blog/2020/11/15/neuro-knitting-beethoven/

 

Join Zoom on December 9 and, together with experienced guest lecturers, discuss and look for answers to relevant questions of nowaday society!

If you are under 30 years old, you are an active young person and you are interested in how to make your environment better and more inclusive by better connecting different people and places, apply for the ideathon by writing to rixc@rixc.org by December 6 by filling in the Google form here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1otRp3SbuNBwUdFfFRZbGPzEYrowxBQVpBiBAAPWGDHs/edit?gxids=7628

Berlin Ideathon Program on 9 December:

12.30-13.00 welcome by the Augmented Europe partners

Public Art Lab | Berlin, RIXC | Riga, MEET |Milan, MADE |Tessaloniki

 

13.00-14.00 introduction talks & walks at former Tempelhofer Airport

with Lukas Feireiss through the 'Living the City' exhibition
https://www.studiolukasfeireiss.com/Living-the-City-On-Cities-People-and-Stories

Susa Pop, Public Art Lab about Connecting People and Places
http://www.publicartlab-berlin.de/public-art-lab/susa-pop/

Maja Stark, AURORA School for ARtists
https://aurora.htw-berlin.de/en/author/mstark/

14.00-15.00 Connecting People and Places - topics and showcases

Social inclusion for migrating cultures: Weltstadt / World City
by Matze Görig, artist of Schlesische 27, Berlin

Translocal activism for cross-cultural exchange: SMSlingshot and G-Frame
by Christian Zoellner, co-founder of VR_Urban and The Constitute designer, artist and professor at University of Art and Design Halle

Telematic performance in pandemic times: Neuro-Knitting Beethoven
by the media artists Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet

 

15.30-16.30 Prototyping ideas in 3 parallel Zoom breakout sessions facilitated by the artists & speakers

16.30-17.30 Pitching session and presentation of the ideas / wrap up

Further information:

http://augeproject.eu/#

AUGE project is co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union. The leader of the project: MEET / Milan - IT, partners: Public Art Lab / Berlin - DE; RIXC / Riga - LV; MADE Group / Thessaloniki - GR.