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Project description [download pdf]
Project lead: Inga Zimprich
Research Coordination: Elske Rosenfeld
Publishing: Richard Vijgen
Advice: Jouke Kleerebezem, Jeanne van Heeswijk
presentations:
Crystalpunk workshop for soft architecture
REX media centre Belgrade CS
JVE Academie
Research guest #1:
M7, architecture collective, Argentina
Thinktank is developed in partnerships with:
Jan van Eyck Academie
The Blue House
Public Space With A Roof
Knosos development project (MOSI / Vrije Universiteit Brussels)
Metamute
1 Thinktank 0.01 group ware development project 2004 - 2006
If we work together and organize our projects ourselves, how can we integrate dynamics that are close and familiar to us in a working environment? If we're remote, how can we share thoughts, develop concepts and projects? And what happens when collaborators disappear in sudden depression, swallowed by a black hole of creativity?
Thinktank invites programmers, artistic & social practitioners to come together and develop a tool that can support our practice, our production and our work in a virtual structure. Trying to integrate dynamics that we know from collaborative work into online structures, trying to expand the group ware structures that exist on the internet, injecting drops of artistic engineering.
http://www.thinktank.con-gress.net
Wastes, un-productivity, losses and "holes": a vital question for collectivities, industry, business and management as well as for art and the artists. It is crucial to society and organizations to propose their members a set of democratic rules and work processes rather than an increasing performance demand.
Philippe Maraisse - Access Local
In terms of efficiency the nowadays networks don't need a leader, but managers. This is our experience.
M7
They want to work with programs that are developed by artists, by engineers that have an eye for social and cultural surplus. (...) Because they are convinced that they can arrive to a society who's creativity does not depend on commercial devices, (...) and that is the meaning of Open Source: The re-appropriation of own tools to create.
Guy van Belle
On Being Soft
Knowledge, so it is said, is the agitator of economic growth, a good education the only insurance against unemployment. Self-education in this respect is a scrapyard challenge: without any experience you can master the use of a jet engine, but when announcing yourself at the job centre it will be back to washing plates or carrying big things if you know what I mean. But self-education is part not of the world of schools and jobs and financial solvency and mortgage opportunities, but an involuntary by-product of the personal creative urge of the kind that start with one innocent question: "what if....?".
What if I make a lot of noise?
Wilfried Houjebek
