Do-It-Yourself Technologies for Action and Empowerment: Stories, practice and perspectives
The MAZI project is developing a toolkit for building local, community wireless networks using Raspberry Pis.
Venue: Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK. All events are free to attend.
16-17 October 2018 : Afternoon hands-on workshops
18 October 2018 : Symposium with speakers and case study presentations.
Symposium Speakers include:
Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and the Rootio Project
Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University, UK
Denise Allan, Wee Replicators, Edinburgh, UK
Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Reverso, São Paulo, Brazil
Adnan Hadzi, Digital Arts, University of Malta
Jeremy Singer, FRμIT: The Federated RaspberryPi Micro-Infrastructure Testbed. Glasgow University, UK
Speakers full bios. Detailed programme for the workshops and symposium below…
Hands-on Workshops/Hackathons
We have some stocks of Raspberry Pis to give away to people who attend a workshop. Build your MAZI Zone and take it home with you!
The half-day workshops will provide “hands-on” opportunities to try out the MAZI DIY networking toolkit, based around the Raspberry Pi. The workshops will be divided into two groups: Workshop 1 will be for people with some coding knowledge (this can be quite limited!) who are interested in finding out more about it all works, and perhaps getting involved in supporting the on-going development of the open-source project. Workshop 2 is for technical novices and people with an interest in how the technologies can be used in domains such as; education, art & creativity, and civic & community participation. More about the MAZI DIY networking toolkit.