[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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> Berkeley designers, scientists, and artists. It is a space for both
> producing and critically engaging with new media and design through
> discussions, hands-on workshops, and design-research projects. For
> questions and comments please write to us at: dbox at ischool.berkeley.edu.
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