STUDIO 630

Geektivism: Geeks Trying to Save the World

Geektivism is what geeks do when they are fed up with the current status of their environment. Drawing from their resources, they find ways to tackle problems in a creative and engaging way (of course this usually involves games…). In our search for geektivists, we came across five new projects that can really make a difference. Both trying to solve important problems, they turned to gaming and technology to inspire people and help them do something, rather than just complain or click on a form.

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WE ARE OPEN!!!! PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB!
EXHIBITION OPENING ON 22.5.2012 at AEDES GALLERY IN BERLIN.
come and join the future!
https://www.facebook.com/events/406006292755424/
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WE ARE OPEN!!!! PLEASE DO ~~NOT~~ DISTURB!

EXHIBITION OPENING ON 22.5.2012 at AEDES GALLERY IN BERLIN.

come and join the future!

https://www.facebook.com/events/406006292755424/

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Open Furniture
Over the last four weeks, OpenSimSim has crowdsourced designs for FutureCityLab in partnership with Eternit, Aedes Gallery, and BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin. We are proud to announce the three designs that will be fabricated and showcased at the exhibit. The designs are:
Tumblr Stool / Joshua Perez

Stacking Chair / Bruno Pereira

Folding Stool / Kyle Rogler

Phase 2 of OpenFurniture will start after the Future City Lab exhibit. The feedback generated from the crowd will provide the starting point for the next series of ideas and improvements to the open source design. Thank you to all of the collaborators and designers that have helped in generating such incredible ideas!
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Open Furniture

Over the last four weeks, OpenSimSim has crowdsourced designs for FutureCityLab in partnership with Eternit, Aedes Gallery, and BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin. We are proud to announce the three designs that will be fabricated and showcased at the exhibit. The designs are:

Tumblr Stool / Joshua Perez

Stacking Chair / Bruno Pereira

Folding Stool / Kyle Rogler

Phase 2 of OpenFurniture will start after the Future City Lab exhibit. The feedback generated from the crowd will provide the starting point for the next series of ideas and improvements to the open source design. Thank you to all of the collaborators and designers that have helped in generating such incredible ideas!

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Open Furniture - Crowdsource Design

For the last three weeks OpenSimSim project OpenFurniture has received and designed ideas to the chair/stool for the Future City Lab exhibition in Berlin. Which one of them you think that have more potencial to be built for the exhibition? Help us choosing 2 designs and make part of the design process!

Vote here

Join us to decide, share your opinion and knowledge!

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1 month ago 4 notes

OSS Balloon Waffle Chair - Opensimsim balloon symbol extruded using a waffle system to build another possibility for the chair. The joints are made in each element using a wood type connection.

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1 month ago 4 notes

OpenSimSim meeting to brainstorm and share some ideas to the OpenFurniture project for the Future City Lab exhibition in Berlin. Bruno Pereira from Lisbon and Andrea Graziano from Pinerolo,TO discuss some thoughs on what type of connection should we use to build the chair/stool in fiberconcrete sheet. What connection you think we should use? Share your knowledge and take part of the design.

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1 month ago 2 notes

How Open Source Is Disrupting Visual Art | The Creators Project

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Second OpenSimSim meeting on the Open Furniture project, with Bruno Pereira from Lisbon, Josh Perez from New York, Kyle Rogler from Kansas City and Daniel Dendra from Berlin. In this video we discuss what type of connections could we use to build the chair in fiberconcrete. Duck tape, Cable binders, Hinges, Screws, what would you use to connect it? Do you know other types of connections? Share your knowlegde and experience with us and take part of the design!

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How Linux is Built

1 month ago

Matryoshka Folding Chair

If you flatten a Matryoshka doll to a 2d shape they fit in one sheet almost without spoiling any material. The starting point is a 1x1m sheet, but the idea is to reduce even more the starting sheet to 0.5x1m, to maximize cost and the material.

By making 3 CNC cuts on the fiber ciment sheets we can achieve a simple folding chair. Easy storage, less material usage, and potentially cheap.

The angle of the chair legs is defined by the connection between the outer body and the seat. So the chair simply mount by join this two components. When a person sits on the chair, his weight makes the connection more stable.

Bruno Pereira - Oss Portugal

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OpenSimSim will also have an open-call meeting this Saturday at 12pm EST. Send an email to dd@opensimsim.net if you would like to join us.

The first OpenSimSim meeting on the Open Furniture project, with Bruno Pereira from Lisbon, Josh Perez from New York and Kyle Rogler from Kansas City. In this video we discuss some of the first ideas for the Future City Lab exhibition chair. Do you agree with our ideas ideas? What would be your idea to design an open source chair? Share your ideas and be a part of the design!

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Join Jane McGonigal In Gaming The World Out Of Poverty

“With Catalysts for Change, the game designer is asking people on the Internet to find innovative ways to change life for the world’s poorest people.”

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OPEN CALL: OpenGram
The tangram is a Chinese dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The goal is to use all seven pieces to create a specific shape in which none of the pieces may overlap.
This two-dimensional puzzle became the inspiration for OpenGram, a three-dimensional set of building blocks to build an open-source chair. With the 1 sqm constraint of generic sheet material, OpenGram makes the most of the each sheet by producing little to no waste while maximizing the flexibility of design.

This set of building blocks encourages user creations which can be uploaded onto an open-source cloud interface. People can then download the designs they like or modify existing designs to increase their performance.

Imagined by Kyle Rogler
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OPEN CALL: OpenGram

The tangram is a Chinese dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The goal is to use all seven pieces to create a specific shape in which none of the pieces may overlap.

This two-dimensional puzzle became the inspiration for OpenGram, a three-dimensional set of building blocks to build an open-source chair. With the 1 sqm constraint of generic sheet material, OpenGram makes the most of the each sheet by producing little to no waste while maximizing the flexibility of design.

This set of building blocks encourages user creations which can be uploaded onto an open-source cloud interface. People can then download the designs they like or modify existing designs to increase their performance.

Imagined by Kyle Rogler

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OPEN CALL - Help to crowd source a stool designJoin the OpenSimSim team to help design a chair /stool for the upcoming Future City Lab exhibition at the renowned AEDES gallery in Berlin in May 2012.Future City Lab, an open source urban initiative, will host an exhibition in Berlin this coming May. The work represents a worldwide collaboration of leading engineers, universities, and scientists in order to launch an urban vision for a sustainable future.This exhibit will be a further catalyst to the open-source nature of Future City Lab’s process of generating ideas for the sustainable city, but will be in need of furniture to help facilitate conversation. OpenSimSim is having an open-call for all designers to create an open-source chair/stool series for the future exhibit.Eternit Germany will help sponsor the exhibit by providing fibre concrete sheets in 8mm and 12mm thicknesses, but the chair design should be adaptable to other types of sheet material for future use as well. The first phase of the design will end 4 weeks before the opening of the exhibit and we will start to build prototypes of either one or several of the proposed designs. During the six weeks of the exhibition the designs will be tested on their durability and performance. The knowledge and feedback collected will become the starting point for the next prototype phase.If you want to join our team of worldwide young designers and engineers please let us know at be@opensimsim.net or submit your ideas and sketches to us either on our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/opensimsim , or our blog:http://opensimsim.tumblr.com .OpenSimSim will post the progress of their current designs every Wednesday and have open-call conversations on Saturdays at 12pm EST (time is subject to change)Please be aware that the final design will be released under creative commons license and can be adopted and manufactured non-commercially by anyone in the world.Requirements:- A stool / chair for people to be used during the exhibition for round table discussions and workshops- Easy to manufacture out of a sheet material (in this case Eternit fibre concrete)- Light (material saving), durable and easy to assemble- Use worldwide available materials for connections such as cable binders or similar connectors- The design will be water-jetted in order to cut the templatesOpenSimSim is collaborating on this project with FutureCityLab, Aedes Gallery, Eternit Germany and Architecuul.Join us and be part of a global collaborative network.
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OPEN CALL - Help to crowd source a stool design

Join the OpenSimSim team to help design a chair /stool for the upcoming Future City Lab exhibition at the renowned AEDES gallery in Berlin in May 2012.

Future City Lab, an open source urban initiative, will host an exhibition in Berlin this coming May. The work represents a worldwide collaboration of leading engineers, universities, and scientists in order to launch an urban vision for a sustainable future.

This exhibit will be a further catalyst to the open-source nature of Future City Lab’s process of generating ideas for the sustainable city, but will be in need of furniture to help facilitate conversation. OpenSimSim is having an open-call for all designers to create an open-source chair/stool series for the future exhibit.

Eternit Germany will help sponsor the exhibit by providing fibre concrete sheets in 8mm and 12mm thicknesses, but the chair design should be adaptable to other types of sheet material for future use as well. The first phase of the design will end 4 weeks before the opening of the exhibit and we will start to build prototypes of either one or several of the proposed designs. During the six weeks of the exhibition the designs will be tested on their durability and performance. The knowledge and feedback collected will become the starting point for the next prototype phase.

If you want to join our team of worldwide young designers and engineers please let us know at be@opensimsim.net or submit your ideas and sketches to us either on our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/opensimsim , or our blog:http://opensimsim.tumblr.com .

OpenSimSim will post the progress of their current designs every Wednesday and have open-call conversations on Saturdays at 12pm EST (time is subject to change)

Please be aware that the final design will be released under creative commons license and can be adopted and manufactured non-commercially by anyone in the world.

Requirements:
- A stool / chair for people to be used during the exhibition for round table discussions and workshops
- Easy to manufacture out of a sheet material (in this case Eternit fibre concrete)
- Light (material saving), durable and easy to assemble
- Use worldwide available materials for connections such as cable binders or similar connectors
- The design will be water-jetted in order to cut the templates

OpenSimSim is collaborating on this project with FutureCityLab, Aedes Gallery, Eternit Germany and Architecuul.

Join us and be part of a global collaborative network.

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Raspberry Pi: A computer for $25. Inspiring.
Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller, is the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing”.
Kurzweil proposed “The Law of Accelerating Returns”, according to which the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially.
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Raspberry Pi: A computer for $25. Inspiring.

Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller, is the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing”.

Kurzweil proposed “The Law of Accelerating Returns”, according to which the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially.

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Geektivism: Geeks Trying to Save the World

Geektivism is what geeks do when they are fed up with the current status of their environment. Drawing from their resources, they find ways to tackle problems in a creative and engaging way (of course this usually involves games…). In our search for geektivists, we came across five new projects that can really make a difference. Both trying to solve important problems, they turned to gaming and technology to inspire people and help them do something, rather than just complain or click on a form.

via thenextweb:

Open Furniture - Crowdsource Design

For the last three weeks OpenSimSim project OpenFurniture has received and designed ideas to the chair/stool for the Future City Lab exhibition in Berlin. Which one of them you think that have more potencial to be built for the exhibition? Help us choosing 2 designs and make part of the design process!

Vote here

Join us to decide, share your opinion and knowledge!

via opensimsim:

Geektivism: Geeks Trying to Save the World

Open Furniture - Crowdsource Design

How Open Source Is Disrupting Visual Art | The Creators Project

Geektivism: Geeks Trying to Save the World

Open Furniture - Crowdsource Design

How Open Source Is Disrupting Visual Art | The Creators Project

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