{"id":836,"date":"2013-08-26T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=836"},"modified":"2017-11-14T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:11:42","slug":"call-for-participation-made-by-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/madebyus\/call-for-participation-made-by-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Participation: Made by Us @BJDW \u2013 a two-day workshop during the Beijing Design Week 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for Participation: Made by Us @BJDW \u2013 a two-day workshop during the Beijing Design Week 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workshop: Saturday 28 September + Sunday 29 September 2013 at CMoDA & Capital Steel Factory<\/em><\/p>\n

Mini-symposium: Smart and Social Cities: Friday 27 September 2013 at CMoDA, Beijing, China<\/em><\/p>\n

Organised by\u00a0The New Institute<\/a>,\u00a0The Mobile City<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts<\/a>\u00a0(CMoDA)<\/em><\/p>\n

[Chinese version below + pdf\u00a0Call for Participation ??<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Architects, planners, media makers, designers, community organisers, local governments, entrepreneurs, researchers and artists are invited to participate in the two-day workshop\u00a0Made by Us<\/a>\u00a0@ BJDW<\/i>. It will explore how the innovative design and use of digital media technologies can engage \u201csmart citizens\u201d with postindustrial heritage and the reuse of former factories. The workshop is part of\u00a0Made by Us<\/i>, a programme of events relating to new media technologies, smart and social cities and postindustrial heritage.<\/p>\n

Application:\u00a0workshop@themobilecity.nl<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(<\/b>deadline: Wednesday 4 September 2013, 11pm CET<\/b>)<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0About the workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Capital<\/a><\/p>\n

Capital Steel Factory Beijing<\/em><\/p>\n

In a half-day mini-symposium and a two-day workshop during\u00a0Beijing Design Week 2013<\/a>, participants from various professional and national backgrounds will team up with stakeholder organisations to address the reuse of former industrial plants. We will be working with the Capital Steel Factory, now being repurposed into a creative industry park, as a target location. The challenge is to help design smart media interventions that will engage stakeholders in postindustrial heritage planning for the abandoned factory.<\/p>\n

The need to meaningfully repurpose former factories is perhaps even more pressing in China than elsewhere. This is partly because of the country\u2019s sheer number of heavy and manual industrial plants and partly because the fluctuating demands of the international economy, shifts in labour and environmental regulations, and high worker mobility force frequent adaptation. How can we use digital media technologies to highlight the need to repurpose postindustrial heritage? Can we create awareness of these places\u2019 spatial, functional and social qualities among stakeholders and the general public? And, most importantly, can we design new media interventions that will involve \u201csmart citizens\u201d as makers and owners instead of mere spectators?<\/p>\n

By focusing on\u00a0ownership<\/a>\u00a0as a design approach, we hope to contribute to smart city debates in China and elsewhere. We will use the notion of ownership not in an exclusive sense (i.e., that of proprietorship) but in an inclusive one, defining it as city dwellers\u2019 feeling of responsibility for and involvement with their surroundings, their fellow citizens and changing urban conditions. How can we engage new publics and enable them to act on shared issues in the city, such as the repurposing of vacant factories?<\/p>\n

The workshop is part of the project\u00a0Made By Us<\/i><\/a>, developed by\u00a0The New Institute<\/a>\u00a0(the Netherlands\u2019 new national institute for the creative industry) and the research group\u00a0The Mobile City<\/a>\u00a0in partnership with Chinese organisations including\u00a0CMoDA<\/a>. In\u00a0Made By Us<\/i>, Dutch and Chinese media makers and designers will work together in a six-month programme to develop a participatory approach to postindustrial heritage planning using digital technologies. The programme aims to promote the exchange of knowledge, culture and market relationships between China and the Netherlands. Three creative makers have been invited to create a new media product and design process to foster awareness, a sense of place and a feeling of ownership of the former factory among the public. They are theaugmented reality\u00a0artist\u00a0Sander Veenhof<\/a>, Niki Smit of the\u00a0Monobanda<\/a>\u00a0game studio, and Mark van der Net of\u00a0OSCity.nl<\/a>. The project will lead to a series of interventions for the former Guangdong Float Glass Factory, one of the locations of the fifth\u00a0Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\/Architecture<\/a>, taking place\u00a0in Shenzhen in December. The\u00a0Made By Us<\/i>\u00a0programme is funded in part by the Creative Industries Fund NL (stimuleringsfonds.nl\/en\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What to expect<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because the issue of repurposing former factories is complex, heterogeneous teams will be formed to tap into the greatest possible diversity of knowledge and experience. Teams will be divided between the three Dutch creatives, each of whom will draw on the approach of his respective speciality \u2013 augmented reality, sensing and mapping, or playful interventions \u2013 and act as a sounding board for the team. Teams will operate independently and have freedom to develop their own ideas and prototypes. The workshop programme will be structured as an iterative process in which the original question will be revisited and ideas tested. After two days, the workshop will yield a rough prototype for an intervention (a product, service and\/or methodology) addressing the issue at stake. To optimise the use of the time, participants will be briefed in advance. Outcomes of the workshop will inform the subsequent process of\u00a0Made By Us<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Why participate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The workshop will offer participants a chance to work on urban issues in multidisciplinary teams. You will bring your expertise, skills and enthusiasm, and we will give you the opportunity to tackle a real-world problem while innovating with new media.<\/p>\n