⚡ TL;DR:
- What: residency about hacking manufacturing to amplify art and research impact
- How: by visiting and working with factories (about electronics, textiles, etc), electronic markets, makerspaces, art spaces, local universities, etc.
- Who: with our partners from academia + industry (AIRS, SUSTech, Seeed, MuRata, etc.)
- When: 4 weeks during January
- Where: Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Bangkok and Osaka.
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Residency Details
1) Topics:
• Past examples: open hardware, from electronics to textiles (see archives below)
• Missions for the latest cohort:
- 50% about open design for good (from the engineering perspective)
- 50% about arts & tech (exhibitions will be possible at UABB: the Hongkong-Shenzhen Biennale)
• Examples: (multiple proposal ideas are OK)
- massive kinetic art installations!?
- participative musical instruments for crowds!?
- making a (scientific) tool affordable!?
- biodegradable electronics manufacturing!?
- sensor networks for environment monitoring!?
- electronic miniaturization for imperceptible wearables!?
- provocative and weird ideas are also very welcome!
- etc.
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2) Requirements:
• Commitment: minimum 4-week presence in January
(it's been too short for all the previous participants, 6 weeks are strongly recommended)
• Expectations for all residents:
- 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 students (flights and hotel are covered):
- Talks: public work presentations at the beginning, and reports at the end.
- Our partners will hope to see open prototypes at the end of IAP (example), but full completion / publication can be later (example).
• Distributed organization: residents will be invited 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 (1st full week of January) that condenses the main aspects of the residency: ScalableHCI.com (fee = voluntary donations / free for students)
• 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: