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The EU H2020 MAZI project is concluding at the end of 2018.

To mark the occasion we are inviting you to join us at Summerhall in Edinburgh for these FREE public events as we celebrate our achievements, share our stories and the lessons we learned, and perhaps most importantly, to discuss what should happen next. 

 

Free registration: Drinks Reception 17.00-19.00  Thursday 18 October

Free registration: Symposium 10.00-17.00 Thursday 18 October

Free registration: Workshops / hackathons – (for coders) Half-days 16 and/or 17 October

Free registration: Workshops / hackathons – (community engagement, non-coders) Half-days 16 and/or 17 October

 

Full details on the project website

 

Themes: #WiFi-networking  #RaspberryPi  #DigitalArts  #CommunityEngagement  #Making-Hacking #Education

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18 October  2018 : Symposium with speakers and case study presentations.

Do-It-Yourself Technologies for Action and Empowerment: 

Stories, practice and perspectives

MAZI means “together” in Greek. The Mazi project is developing a toolkit for building local, community wireless networks, using Raspberry Pi technology: MAZI Zones. We call this alternative technology Do-It-Yourself networking. It combines wireless technology, low-cost hardware, and free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) applications. MAZI Zones will be easily deployed and configured based on a rich set of customization options and interdisciplinary knowledge. The symposium will present case studies from our pilot studies in Berlin, Zurich, London and northern Greece, along with talks by invited speakers. Building on the context of our own MAZI experiences, we will broaden out the debate with perspectives from outside the project.

Speakers include:

• Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and the Rootio Project (Grassroots Radio)
• Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University
• Denise Allan, Wee Replicators, Edinburgh
• Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Reverso, São Paulo, Brazil
• Adnan Hadzi, Digital Arts, University of Malta

 

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16-17 October 2018 : Afternoon hands-on workshops (attend one or both sessions)

The half-day workshops will provide “hands-on” opportunities to try out the MAZI DIY networking toolkit, based around the Raspberry Pi. The workshops will be divided into two groups:

• Workshop 1 will be for programmers and technical enthusiasts who are interested in finding out more about it all works, and perhaps getting involved in supporting the on-going development of the open-source project. 
• Workshop 2 is for technical novices with an interest in how the technologies can be used in domains such as; education, art & creativity, and civic & community participation. More about the MAZI DIY networking toolkit.

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The MAZI EU H2020 project partners are:

• NITlab, University of Thessaly, Greece (Project Coordinator)
• NetHood, Zurich-based non-profit organization, Switzerland
• Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
• The Open University, UK
• INURA Zurich Institute, Switzerland
• SPC in Deptford, London, UK
• Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin, Germany
• unMonastery, nomadic group, UK & Greece.

 

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Ingi Helgason, Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University

MAZI: DIY networking (EU CAPS H2020)

ENSEMBLE: Performing Together Apart (AHRC Immersive Experiences)

https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/ingi-helgason