Workshops

Crafting Futures Lab “Oscillating Bodies” – Workshop
Lilo Viehweg (DE)
Piezoelectric crystals intra-act in mountains, laboratories, technological devices, corals, bones, hair and teeth. They convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vis versa. This oscillation between different energy states is a lively, material form of information transfer that, for example, stimulates bone growth, makes watches throb at a certain beat, or generates images through sonar and ultrasound devices.

Crafting Futures Lab "Photoelectric Blueberries" – Workshop
Monja Hirscher (AT/DE)
In the early 1990s, Michael Grätzel developed a solar cell that works on the basis of plant pigments. It works in a similar way to photosynthesis and is easy to build with widely available materials.

Crafting Futures Lab “Weaving as Material Calculus” – Workshop
Laura Devendorf (US), Irene Posch (AT)
Weaving is programming. This connection is often cited in conjunction with Ada Lovelace. This workshop plays with these themes and ideas both on paper and the online tool AdaCAD.org

Water in (post)Anthropocene
Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR)
The workshop brings the invisible world of contemporary microscale and nanoscale/molecular water pollutants - the smallest but potent residues of human activity; unsustainable consumerism, urbanization, and exploitation of the world waters and life within.

Tools for Warming Planet
Garden Barcelona: Sara Dean (US), Beth Ferguson (US), Marina Monsonís (ES)
We live on a planet in flux--warming waters and land, chaotic weather, and unknown futures. Our adaptability is crucial to our survival. In response to this condition, this workshop will explore new tools for sensing, mapping, engaging, eating and responding to our changing environment. Participants will learn about the Tools for a Warming Planet crowd-sourced collection on exhibition and will collaborate on new prototype ideas moving forward. This workshop is part of the exhibition Collaborative Ecosystems for a Sustainable World, presented by the Institut Ramon Llull in collaboration with the .NewArt { foundation;} and Hac Te.

Roots & Seeds XXI, Community Allelopathy
Roots&Seeds & Epicuro Lab Collective: Gabino Carballo (ES), Tatiana Kourochkina (ES), Claudia Schnugg (AT)
During our workshop we will be discussing the potential of future forms of allelopathy with participants. Local plants/seeds from a certified nursery will be given to each of them, as well as brining their own plants from home (or their photos, drawings, etc.) will be encouraged. With all this material, projections will be made (more or less viable or fantastic) about the influence of human culture in the creation of future plant communities.

Feminist Futures - Imagining Another Internet
Branch Magazine x Katrin Fritsch (AT)
Feminist Futures is an ongoing participatory art project that advocates for just and diverse futures of the Internet. In workshops, participants discuss the current issues of the Internet, and then re-imagine them through stories, comics, or poems. What results is an open-source archive of stories that provide strategies for change.

Bi0film – Open Conversation
Bi0film.net - Jung Hsu (TW), Natalia Rivera (CO)
Come by to our conversation frames in the Bi0film.net fab lab and share with us your ideas and thoughts about resisting, creating and communicating like other living organisms.

Dive into plastic
Kat Austen (UK/DE) & Fara Peluso (IT)
In this workshop, artists Kat Austen and Fara Peluso will introduce participants to bioplastic as a new material. We will discuss the ways that bioplastic is different, and the ways it is similar, to plastic. Drawing inspiration from our everyday lives, we will look at the lifecycle of the materials we have around us and the impact they have on the environment, both in terms of what happens to them when we no longer need them, and how they are made.

Resist like Bacteria Encounter
Bi0film.net - Jung Hsu (TW), Natalia Rivera (CO)
Our project opens a non-disciplinary conversation between activists, biologists, hacker communities, artists and everyone interested in co-creating other possible future communication systems. Besides the umbrella-antenna as a tool, the question and the processes around autonomous communication networks are still open for us.