⚡ TL;DR:
- What: residency about re-purposing manufacturing techniques to amplify art and research impact.
- How: by analyzing and working with factories (about electronics, textiles, etc), visiting electronic markets, makerspaces, art spaces, local research labs, etc.
- Who: with our partners from academia and industry (past: AIRS, SUSTech, Seeed, MuRata, etc.)
- When: 6 weeks starting in June 2027 (no longer in January).
- Where: Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Bangkok, Osaka, Seoul, etc (will be confirmed ~2 months before).
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Residency Details
1) Topics:
• Past years examples: open hardware, from electronics to arts (see archives below)
• Missions for the latest cohort:
- 50% about open design for good (from the engineering perspective)
- 50% about arts & tech (e.g performances and exhibitions @ Hongkong-Shenzhen Biennale)
• Project examples from previous years: (multiple proposal ideas are OK)
- making a (scientific) tool affordable
- biodegradable electronics manufacturing
- sensor networks for environment monitoring
- electronic miniaturization for imperceptible wearables
- participative musical instruments for crowds
- massive scaling of kinetic art installations
- computational knitting for 3d eTextile sensors
- provocative and weird ideas are also very welcome!
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2) Requirements:
• Commitment: minimum 6-week presence from Late June to early August
(it's been too short for all the previous participants, 8 weeks are strongly recommended)
• Expectations for all residents (including self-funded affiliates):
- Open source work only
- Documentation by the end of the residency (example)
- Demo/exhibition at the symposium (non archival) and UABB for the best art proposals.
• Expectations for funded MIT participants (flights and hotel are covered):
- Talks: pre-published work presentations at the beginning, and reports at the end.
- Prototypes will be expected by our partners at the end (example) but full completion / publication can be later, (example).
• Distributed organization: residents will be asked to help the organization with visits of factories and arts spaces, but also for the ScalableHCI symposium (as hackathon chair, workshop chair, web chair, social media chair, etc):
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🚀 Accelerated introduction:
• The program starts with a symposium (last week of June) that condenses the main aspects of the residency: ScalableHCI.com (fee = donations / free for students and artists)
• There are various ways to get funding for the trip, example: gsc.mit.edu/about/funds (or similar options in other universities)
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Previous years reports: