Internet of Things

Workshop on RFID and other kind of spimes*

Kitchen Budapest, July 7-9, 2010

RFID is part of the ecology of IPV6, barcodes and all kinds of wireless which make up the linking up of people, things and the environment.

If we look at it from our analogue point of view and in our current economic and democratic systems of fear, crisis and control it does not show great promise for more balance, more joy or more happiness. However, if we are able to look beyond ourselves, the real profit may lie in getting to know ourselves and our friends and enemies better and being able to live up fully to our potential if everything becomes a bit more transparent.

Rob van Kranenburg and Pawel Pokutycki, the head kitchen chefs of the workshop will cook a delicious radioactive soup tastefully tagged with a flavour of sweet do-it-yourself electronics and spime* spices. Fresh food for thought, unforgettable recipes and the best ingredients served straight on the plates of hungry creatives.

*spime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime

Rob van Kranenburg (NL/BE) is an innovation and media theorist involved with negotiability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubiquitous computing and RFID, the relationship between the formal and informal in cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy. He wrote the ‘The Internet of Things’ and co-organized the DIFR (a broad range of pro and anti RFID positions)
network in the Netherlands. He founded Council, a thinktank for the Internet of Things. He works one day a week for Professor Ben Schouten at Fontys Ambient Intelligence in Eindhoven as projectmanager of SHAREIT and member of the Lectoraat.

http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/
http://www.peopleshareit.eu/
http://www.bricolabs.net

Pawel Pokutycki (PL) is an interaction designer, thinker and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, The Netherlands. In 2005 he initiated early activities of the RFID Lab, later called the AR+RFID Lab, an experimental interdisciplinary platform doing research in the application of emerging Augmented Reality (AR) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies in the field of art and design. His main interests as a scholar and designer are in the methodologies of creative, surprising, unexpected, critical and artistic concept development for new media and interactive technology, both on the level of hardware as software. His recent educational project Design Spam explores the possibilities of innovation in on-line communication emerging from noise, failure and non-sense, rather than predictable, debugged, well-thought-out processes of information exchange. See also the weblog of the students and teachers of the Interactive/Media/Design programme.

The workshop is co-organized by KIBU (Kitchen Budapest) and the MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design).

Workshop details:

  • Location: Budapest, Ráday utca 30. Hungary entrance from Biblia köz, map
  • Duration: 7-9 July, 2010. each day 10AM to 6PM (approximately)
  • The workshop will be held in English.

Program:

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7

10.00 - morning mingling, coffee
10.30 - welcome and introduction
11.00 - lecture by Rob van Kranenburg
12.00 - "Spime Art" lecture/presentation by Pawel Pokutycki
12.45 - short demonstration of RFID equipment
13.30 - lunch break
14.30 - concept development sessions (in small groups of max. 3 persons) with assistance of Rob and Pawel
16.30 - short presentations of the initial concepts, ideas per group, feedback from Rob and Pawel

THURSDAY, JULY 8

10.00 - morning mingling, coffee
10.30 - hands-on RFID workshop
13.30 - lunch break
14.30 - prototyping the projects
16.30 - short presentations of the prototypes, feedback of Rob and Pawel

FRIDAY, JULY 9

09.30 - morning mingling, coffee
10.00 - finishing the projects
13.30 - lunch break
14.30 - preparing the documentation + presentation of the projects
16.30 - FINAL PRESENTATIONS

Workshop participants:

Head kitchen chefs:

  • Rob van Kranenburg
  • Pawel Pokutycki

Su-chefs:

  • Gabriella Potsa - industrial designer student, MOME
  • Bori Kovács - product designer student, MOME
  • Bogyó Virág - graphic designer, MOME
  • Ágoston Nagy - interaction, new media designer
  • Anna Vidovszky - industrial designer
  • Miklós Kirilly - electrical engineer student, BME
  • Zita Farkas - product designer, engineer
  • Panni Pais - sociologist, designer
  • Attila Bujdosó - architect, research coordinator at KIBU
  • Zoltán Csík-Kovács - visual communication designer, senior researcher at KIBU
  • László Kiss - designer, electronic musician and programmer, researcher at KIBU
  • Krisztián Gergely - computer engineer student, researcher at KIBU
  • Maja Ilijanic - specialist in Business Development, Crnogorski Telekom AD
  • Sándor Kulcsár - senior consultant, Innovation and Corporate
    Development, Magyar Telekom Plc.
  • Gergely Deé - expert, Innovation and Corporate Development, Magyar Telekom Plc.
  • Borcsa Holka - manager, Innovation and Corporate Development, Magyar Telekom Plc.

Kitchen boys:

  • Zsófi Ruttkay - Creative Technology Lab, MOME
  • Melinda Sipos - KIBU
  • Márton András Juhász - KIBU
  • Ádám Csörnyei - KIBU

How can you participate?

The workshop is open to anyone but is limited to 12 participants. Applicants will be selected in a way to form a group of participants of diverse backgrounds.

In orther to apply, please send us an email with the followings to info at kitchenbudapest dot hu by Tuesday June 29, 2010.

  • who you are, 5 lines minibio
  • your website / blog links some about your works
  • technical skills (not a requirement but can help)
  • some quick thoughts/ideas