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

Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 22:12:04 UTC 2008


anyone go? any feedback?

Scott Murray 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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> * The BNCM Commons is next door to the Free Speech Movement Cafe at 
> Moffitt Library. Map at: http://tinyurl.com/52epzh
> 
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