Workshop 2: Using the MAZI Toolkit with your community.

Do-It-Yourself Technologies for Action and Empowerment: Stories, practice and perspectives

For people with interested in building local networks for education, art & creativity, civic & community participation, and more.

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!

You can attend either or both sessions - Tuesday 16th Oct and Wednesday 17th. Repeat the booking process to attend both.

This is an introductory workshop, and no technical knowledge is needed. The focus of this workshop is about exploring how “simple” WiFi connection technologies, such as the MAZI Toolkit, can be used with groups and communities to support social activities and share knowledge. All technology will be provided, but it would be useful to bring a laptop, tablet or smartphone.

Lead by Katalin Hausel & Lauren Lapidge, unMonastery, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning, Neighborhood Academy, Berlin. More about the MAZI DIY networking toolkit.

Full details about the Symposium and both Workshops

ACCESS: please note that the event takes place in the Dissection Room at Summerhall. There is some restricted access, please contact us (email option below) for more details.

Other events (free to attend) include a symposium and half-day workshops/hackathons

Full details and booking: www.mazizone.eu/mazi-workshops-and-symposium-2018-edinburgh-uk/

The symposium (18th October) will present case studies from our pilot studies in Berlin, Zurich, London and northern Greece, along with talks by invited speakers. Building on the context of our own MAZI experiences, we will broaden out the debate with perspectives from outside the project.

The MAZI project is developing a toolkit for building local, community wireless networks using Raspberry Pis.

Symposium Speakers include:

• Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and the Rootio Project

• Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University

• Denise Allan, Wee Replicators, Edinburgh

• Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Reverso, São Paulo, Brazil

• Adnan Hadzi, Digital Arts, University of Malta

The half-day workshops (16th & 17th October) 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 programmers and technical enthusiasts 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 with an interest in how the technologies can be used in domains such as; education, art & creativity, and civic & community participation.

The MAZI EU H2020 project partners are:

• NITlab, University of Thessaly, Greece (Project Coordinator)

• NetHood, Zurich-based non-profit organization, Switzerland

• Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

• Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

• The Open University, UK

• INURA Zurich Institute, Switzerland

• SPC in Deptford, London, UK

• Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin, Germany

• unMonastery, nomadic group, UK & Greece.