August 2010
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July 2010
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Public Presentation
The public presentation yesterday evening was a success. We’ll post the projects online soon, including some more photographic impressions of the opening. With 100+ visitors that evening, it’s sad in a way that the exhibition only lasted those few hours and the space is now completely empty again. A big thank you to all of those who have contributed and collaborated, especially the...
360° Panorama of the Summer Lab
Last Wednesday we we’re visited by Roelof de Vries of 360fotos.nl, who specializes himself in high-end panorama photography. Have a look at this wonderful shot from Rob van Kranenburgs evaluation on wednesday night!
Secret City Tour passing by KOLABO
KOLABO is a member of the Rotterdam Collective at RAUM. Ro-Co is organizing lectures and film programs Get Real Club together with Roodkapje, Rot(t)terdam. this week Thursday night start at 7PM, 29th July we will be organizing a Summer Secret City Tour. This tour will be passing by our KOLABO Summer Lab at Codum as well. We will show the group about the location and the work we’ve been...
The role of photography in social media
In 2008 I photographed so called traceurs, people that practice really physical sport or discipline of parkour. I really tried my best to make something special out of it. While focusing on their relationship with their practicing environment I came up with a series of pictures that made me quite proud at the moment. The proportions in the images really show how these running and jumping people...
Guest Blog: Is there Milk in my fridge?
The interface: We need technological enhancements because the world is complex. But sometimes the complexities we encounter are a result of the technologies themselves. Good design augments human possibility and reduces complexity.
When we have problems interacting with technologies, it’s a direct result of our not having asked the right questions in the design process. To be effective, we...
Lab Day 4: Reboot
Under the guidance of Arie van Baarle we redefined our ideas in a way that is open enough for all our experts to define their own personal interest and perspective:
Narrowing it down, all of our various angles were clearly about this dilemma:
How can we capture, disclose and use wisdom, experience and knowledge in order to give people social value and autonomy, staying connected to society. All...
Lab Day 3: What we learned today
Turn the other cheek
After a day of individual ideas (see below), we got Arie van Baarle and Rob van Kranenburg in to review. We learned some great lessons as we basically got slapped around pretty hard. We really woke up to some crucial succes factors:
On our ideas
> Don’t create a technologically aided world that will only soothe old people into complete comfort. Find a way to keep...
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Eleusian Fields for the Elderly – Building an...
Concentrating on the elderly in capitalist society, the meaning of aging takes a prominent stance. What does aging mean in the Western world and in what way is it related to levels of health and happiness? If life expectancy rates are for 10% dictated by genes and for 90% by lifestyle, what factors of lifestyle could benefit an aging population facing retirement of the labor space and forthcoming...
scenario sketch (proof of evidence?)
Many but not all current projection models for the world population are pointing to a future of elderly people. The current data is projecting an increase of the population of 65+ to be almost a quarter of the population 21.6% by the year 2016. By 2050 there will be an increase of 180% more people over of the age of 80 than today. This means that the we will need a social shift from our current...
Let’s have a cup of coffee [concept]
Grandma lives alone in her house. 24hours a day she might be feeling lonely that all she needs is a chat. The moment she fills warm coffee into this cup, the sensor will connect it to her contacts with also such a cup. The receiver can of course decide whether join or not. It might works as a group phone call, that calls up the families or friends that spread over the world to drink this cup of...
METADATA MIXER for elderly [concept]
This is a metadata mixer. It connects the data that doesn’t connect or physically aren’t able to connect in the reality.
When people get older, they become more and more disabled. In one way or another, this mixer should be able to assistant them reach the data virtually almost as real.
For example, you can shop around virtually in the 1:1 scaled environment. You can meet up your...
Rewind
We started out with readings about the Internet of Things, also know as Ubiquitous Computing. This brings the virtual world back to the real world. Can it help us improve our lives? We were brainstorming about different topics we could apply it to.
Splitting up in three groups, we came to three subjects. Metadata, Identity and Process Design. We came to the agreement that Metadata is the platform...
Lab Day 1: Kick-ass Kick-off
Wow, it was a long hot day! Definitely a convincing team ready to kick ass and a very good kick-off by Rob van Kranenburg. The participants will soon start to blog about their ideas on this blog and also go into the city for some first public feedback. For now, time to prepare tomorrow’s tasks.
Lab Day 1: The Challenge
And we’re on! At 10:00 we start our 2010 Summer Lab, with an introductory round where each participant sketches a more personal profile with the three objects they brought today. At 14:00 it’s time for the main challenge by Rob van Kranenburg. We’ll keep you posted on with photo’s, news and anecdotes.
KOLABO VS CODUM
Monday, the 19th of July we’ll have the Kick-off of the annual Kolabo Summer Lab at Codum. During two weeks, an interdisciplinairy team will take on a very special challenge by Internet Of Things expert Rob van Kranenburg in which we’ll jump ten years forward in time, to the year 2020:
It is inevitable that the vertical institutions will break under the weight of the internet based...
Last call for talent
Looking for that last graduate student to join next week’s Summer Lab. If you know someone that would want to join, let us know! See website for more information: http://www.kolabo.org/summerlabs
Final Dates & Location Summer lab
We can finally announce the definitive location and dates for our Summer lab.
This year the lab will be hosted at Codum, taking place from 19th to the 30th of July.
We are happy to work with Codum, who provide renovated urban spaces to the creative industry in Rotterdam & Amsterdam.
As for the Lab, mark the 19th till the 30th in your agenda. Even if you’re unable to join us for the...
June 2010
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May 2010
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... And we are live!
Yes! Today we finally launched the new and, if I may say so, the much improved Kolabo.org. Have a look around, any comments are welcome. Tiny updates will follow in the coming days, while we start with the preparations for the 2010 Summer Lab.
Moving Servers!
In preparation of launching a new Kolabo.org we’re busy moving servers and migrating DNS records. This could mean that our site will be out of the air shortly. We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on via our tumblr-blog.
April 2010
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New Website in final phase!
We are proud to announce that our new website is in the final stage of building. Kolabo Blog will be incorporated into a much more advanced website that will also host Kolabo Writers, Kolabo Radio, Kolabo Labs and our new Summer Lab. Please revisit on the 1st of may and we’ll blow you away :-)
March 2010
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Kolabo interviewed science fiction writer Bruce...
Kolabo interviewed curator and writer Sarah Cook...
Andrew Keen’s son was also present at the...
“Relying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of...”
– Clay Shirky
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment...”
– Marshall McLuhan
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men...”
– Marshall McLuhan
Summer Lab 2010
This year’s Summer Lab will research the consequences of omnipresent social technologies. Going through the three stages of hype-trend-zeitgeist, we will observe the moment when technology becomes magic. Then we’ll see how every technology at some point becomes so normal, so widespread and so boring that - only then - it will start to get really socially interesting as Shirky...
“Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
“Tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically...”
– Clay Shirky
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WatchThis short documentary by Photoboothworks gives you a little taste of the Kolabo Summer Lab in the summer of 2009.