[Noisebridge-discuss] "High-Low Tech" Talk at UC Berkeley

Adam Skory askory at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 03:56:35 UTC 2008


Sounds awesome, I'll be there!

It wouldn't be far out of my way to pick people up at BART so if
you're BARTing and too lazy to walk email me.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Scott Murray <shm at alignedleft.com> wrote:
> Dear NoiseBridgers — You may be interested in this talk on Wednesday.
>
>        —Scott
>
>
>
> Design Futures lecture series
> sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the School of Information
>
> Wednesday December 3
> 6:00 - 7:30 pm
> BCNM Commons*
> UC Berkeley
>
> Leah Buechley, MIT Media Lab
> New Craft - A Marriage of High and Low Tech
>
> People knit scarves, build furniture, sew clothing, and solder radios
> together in their homes and garages. Diverse groups of people--girls and
> boys, grandparents and college students--lovingly engage in these hands-on
> low-tech hobbies. In contrast, companies produce high-tech things by
> high-tech processes, using teams of people and sophisticated machinery to
> build devices like cell phones, computers, pharmaceutical drugs, and cars.
> But this clear division between high-tech and low-tech is beginning to blur.
> A host of new tools is making many of the resources previously available
> only to companies accessible to individuals, empowering people to design,
> engineer, and build devices that integrate high and low technology.
>
> This talk will discuss this "new craft", envisioning a future in which
> individuals integrate traditional craft, engineering, and web-honed
> communication skills to build and share information about "high-low tech"
> devices like temperature sensing scarves, algorithmically generated
> furniture, and radically customized cell phones. The presentation will
> discuss burgeoning high-low tech communities, focusing on ways that
> professional designers and engineers can support and encourage this new
> creative movement. It will present examples of high-low tech
> artifacts--including embroidered circuits and paper computers--and examples
> of tools that empower others to construct high-low tech devices--including
> the LilyPad Arduino, a construction kit that enables novices to build
> fabric-based wearable computers.
>
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