- Your name, and that of your organisation
@dusjagr Marc Dusseiller, International Hackteria Society
- Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.
Hackteria ZET - Open Science Lab presents:
Soil Microscopy Workshop and bio-VJ Night
- Email address by which you may be contacted.
marc@dusseiller.ch
- What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
DIY microscopy, hacked webcams, digital fabrication for re-designing the microscope stage, open source VJ software and motion tracking
- Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.
Since summer 2020, we have finally initiated an Open Science Lab in our shared hackerspace in Zurich. Sadly we couldnt kick-off a larger and regular workshop programme yet, that focuses on open hardware for science. Partially due to the pandemic situation, and other activities internationally.
See more:
https://www.hackteria.org/projects/news/hackteria-zet-open-science-lab-in-zurich/
We take this oportunity to start a new series of DIY and open source scientific instrument workshops and aiming to grow a local community around our lab. We are situated in the heart of a large cultural space and can reach out to many groups in the house, from climate activist to musicians, queer & feminist groups to geeky makers.
The day will be a two part program.
In the afternoon, we will introduce some basic ideas about microscopy, showing our pallete of professional and self-made microscopes. We will then re-design our laser cut stage, and guide the participants through the process of making their own DIY microoscope from a hacked webcam.
We will then focus mostly on using these for the analysis of soils and local water bodies.
This workshop has been the “classic” hackteria style approach since it’s inception in 2009, but it’s always a great success and amazing reactions and enjoyment by the participants.
See more info on the hackteria wiki:
https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/DIY_microscopy#DIY_microscopy
I the evening, we will invite musicians and VJs from our scene and will play and jam with visualizations using live microscopy video streams.
Also a practive we have explored before. See this example on youtube.
- Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.
Yes. As described on the link above, we have a few topics that we are already exploring regularly, such mycelium cultures and bio fabrication workshops, kombucha an the likes, aswell as bioart workshop on human germline hacking.
It’s time now to share more of our long list of open science hardware workshops to our local publics.
See a incomplete list of recent activities: Hackteria Wiki
- What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?
We will document the workshop outputs on the hackteira wiki.
We already have various publications around the topic of DIY microscopy and soil analysis that have been published as zines, accessilbe on archive.org
Zines - Hackteria Wiki
- What you will use the grant for, roughly.
We invite a small group of musicians and VJs locally and international, and support their travel costs.
We will also pay small fees to the workshop mentors.
The rest will go into the material cost, food and snacks on site.
Travel: 250 USD
Fees: 300 USD
Materials: 150 USD
Food and snacks: 100 USD
Total 800 USD
We will also ask for a workshop registration fee in the range of 50 USD / Participant, thus should be able to cover all the above budget. If more income will be generated it will be used for future workshops in our Open Science Lab.
- Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.
There are already a few links in the paragraphs above.