Ah, one step ahead of me, was going to forward this on as well. :-D Did anyone go to the Fingal CoCo hackathon last Saturday?
/// Vicky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Alan Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thought this might be of interest to python hackers > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Teresa Dillon > Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM > Subject: Science Gallery: Hack The City Open Call > > > *HACK THE CITY* > > *22:06:12 – 07:09:12* > > * * > > *Call for Proposals* > > *Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland is seeking proposals > for an upcoming major exhibition HACK THE CITY * > > *Call Opens: Monday 5th December* > > *Call Closes: Friday 20th January* > > *Exhibition duration: 22 June 2012 – 07 September 2012* > > *See: > **http://www.sciencegallery.com/hackthecity*<http://www.sciencegallery.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2512&qid=1884357> > * * > > *_____________________________________________________________* > > Calling all hackers, makers, doers, data nerds, hobbyists, artists, > citizen scientists, tech geeks, activists, edgy engineers and DIY urban > planners. > > Science Gallery is seeking proposals for its 2012 flagship exhibition HACK > THE CITY launching in June 2012. > > Currently more than half of the world’s population lives in towns and > cities. This trend is expected to continue. Between 2025-2030 of the > approximate 8 billion people who will live in the world 5 billion will live > in cities. Yet the majority of our city infrastructures are based on > inherited historical layouts and systems. > > Science Gallery’s 2012 flagship exhibition and festival HACK THE CITYwill > rethink our cities from the ground up through the spirit and > philosophy of the hacker ethos - to bend, mash-up, tweak and cannibalise > our city systems, to create possibilities, illustrate visionary thinking > and demonstrate real-world examples for sustainable urban futures. It will > capitalize on Dublin city’s history, legacy, population and infrastructure, > transforming the city itself into a nimble “playground” and live urban hack > lab. > > The exhibition and events will explore hacking for good – the repurposing > of useful resources, the innovators who customise existing tools for new > uses and who purposefully challenge existing hierarchies. What creative > ways can we release untapped resources, harnessing what maybe considered as > by-products or waste, to create alternative systems for public good? > > HACK THE CITY is Science Gallery’s major international exhibition and > festival for 2012 and a flagship programme of Dublin City of Science. We > are interested in receiving proposals for experiments, exhibits and events, > which go beyond Science Gallery in to the city of Dublin and even connect > multiple cities globally. Potential venue partnerships include The Ark, > Temple Bar, Dublin and international partnerships with ZER01 in San Jose, > California. > > Working with our international partners and local councils we will be > creating city zones, which will test potential new technologies, creating > situations for energy visualization, play, social networking and > communications. > > As a centrepiece in Dublin’s tenure as European City of Science 2012, we > are especially interested in submissions which utilise Dublin’s position, > geography and demographic – as the capital of a small island, on the > periphery of Europe, struggling to recover from a post-economic boom and > the European home for a number of key multinational tech companies (IBM, > Google, Facebook), innovators and entrepreneurs. Drawing on this vibrant > community we encourage novel approaches to social and commercial ideas, > which can be piloted and prototyped during HACK THE CITY. > > The exhibition will include existing and proposed works, innovations and > inventions around the theme of HACK THE CITY. The exhibition will extend > beyond the gallery through workshops, labs, events and off-site projects > with Science Gallery becoming a hub connecting difference city zones to > mobile and online worlds. > > Alongside artworks, designed objects and documentary artefacts, HACK THE > CITY will encourage thinking differently about how we set up new business > products and services, which address our urban demands, plus include > special live performances, innovative installations, unique physical and > mental experiences, high-profile talks, discussions and debates, > web-focused interactions, games and collaborative experiences. > > We are seeking proposals for: > > - Installations > - Mass-participation experiments > - Events > - Performances > - New products/services/start-ups > - Workshops > - Apps > - Visualizations, maps and mashups > > Suggested areas of focus include: > > - Augmenting the City – submissions that repurpose the physical city > environs to allow a significant unique interaction with the surrounding > city landscape, including AR apps > - City based projects, objects and experiences in the areas of public > art / street art / community / new media, technology and design. > - Particular attention will be paid to projects that rethink and > recycle the slack spaces in the city, uncover subcultures, subvert and > reveal the architectural blueprint of the city itself. > - Projects which allow the city dweller to interact with and interject > into the city, both in terms of its systems and infrastructure as well as > it’s physical form. > - Particular attention will be paid to robust projects that have a > significant visual impact or presence in the city itself and are designed > to be economic with the available resources and tools. These projects > should also contain a significant element that can be integrated into the > Science Gallery exhibition space. > - We are particularly interested in receiving submissions, which are > Dublin specific as well as projects, which refer to the global urban > environment or connect different cities > - We are interested in projects that may have an element of longevity > that can exist beyond the time span of the exhibition itself. > - Urban experiments – submissions which utilize the infrastructure, > data and citizens of the city to carry out experiments > - Future of the City - submissions, which think broadly and diversely > about how we live in cities, support subversion and play and allow our > audience to experience live mappings of the dynamic city (flow of energy, > transport, capital and people) and gain new insights into our future cities > - Playing with data - submissions for works, which connect data forms > and physically embody data streams, bridging ‘on’ and ‘off’ line worlds. > - New business products and services – ideas which have commercial > viability and provide sustainable solutions for our urban needs, including > the use of open data, data mash ups and remixes > > > > Please feel free to forward this e-mail and link to other forums and > > individuals and do please contact us at > > [email protected] if you would like to suggest projects or > people for the exhibition. > > > > Funding > > We welcome projects that come with external funding. The maximum amount of > budgetary support available for each approved application is €5,000. Each > project must be delivered within this maximum production budget, which > should include all fees, materials, shipping and travel costs as well as > any other cost that may arise from participation in Hack the City. 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