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The Palomar5 Core-Team just got back from the alps last weekend where we spent an entire week to brainstorm of how we can continue Palomar5 in 2010+ (we’ll write a separte post about it at a later stage). And pretty much the second we came back, the Social Media Week and the Transmediale were about to start in Berlin – two events that are quite related to what we do and care about. Since we at Palomar5 at least try to not just go to events & be there & watch & bitch about what they should do better – we decided to also contribute something to both events in some way.
P5 @ Social Media Week
Thursday, Feb 4th // 1pm-3pm // piabo, Berlin Mitte
Our partner piabo that helped us coordinating all the press requests last year is going to host a workshop about “how to attract talents through social media usage”, targeted a HR people from corporates. Since the theme of the social media week is “Streit”, we thought that it’s interesting to also talk about how corporates should NOT use social media to attract potential employees. So together wih our former Palomar5 microcamp participant Edial and member of the web agency supertroup “YOUR NEIGHBOURS”, we will present the “10 No Go’s for social media usage” @ piabo from 1-3pm. The workshop’s capacity has already been reached, however. The whole schedule about the events taking place under the rooftop of the SMW can be found here.
P5 @ transmediale.10
Sunday, Feb 7th // 1pm-3pm // Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Foyer, Berlin
January 28 – February 7, 2010 // Club Transmediale, next to .hbc, Berlin
The well reknown festival for arts and digital culture Transmediale and its sister festival Club Transmediale are taking place again in Berlin – and we are amongst them in several ways.
One of the projects that derived from the Palomar5 Camp in 2009, “I am Display“, has its premiere and first exhibition at the Club transmediale. It is a light installation that plays with the perceptions of its audience. It explores the equilibrium between our senses, our bodies and our surroundings. If you want to experience the 182 fluorescent tube lights that the camp residents Valentin Heun (Germany), Sagarika Sundaram (India) and Gijs Burgmeijer (the Netherlands) built to a structure measuring, 2,5 m x 13 m – you will have the chance until February 7th – the exhibition is located right next to the .hbc.
On Friday evening, Feb 5h, we’ll deliver the famous “Talk to me about”-bubbles”, lead invented by our camp resident Jay Cousins, to the Club Transmediale party crowd.
And on Sunday afternoon, between 1.00-3.00pm, several residents and core-team members of Palomar5 will host a play- & workshop under the theme “being human” at the Transmediale, right in the foyer when you enter the House of World Cultures. The workshop is about digital lifestyle, analog behavior and human interaction. But enough with the lenghty descriptions, we are just happy to meet you there!
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And if this wasn’t enough, we are also gonna be on German TV this thursday:
A film team visited our camp and we’ll appear in the show Neues this thursday, at 8.15pm @ 3SAT.
And last but not least, we’ll also be at the Systemdesign Symposium at the Kassel Art School this friday. It’s about 4 different voices about design, our’s will tackle the question “how can you design structures that foster creativity and collaboration in groups?”. You are happy to join us there:
February 5th 2010, 2.00pm – 6.00pm // Hörsaal im Nordbau / Kunsthochschule Kassel / Menzelstr 13 / 34121 Kassel
We’ve waited a long time and you sure did wait a long time, too. But here it is. A bit later than expected and promised in the first place, but good things like wine take time.
Palomar5 – The movie is a 60-minute documentary about what happened at the Palomar5 camp, a residency program which took place during six weeks in fall 2009 in Berlin. Using a holistic approach, Palomar5 seeked out the most visionary young people internationally and then assembled them to inspire each other naturally. A highly selective application process aimed to bring together a sensible mix of nationalities, genders, and professions to create a diverse and nascent network of movers and shakers from all kinds of backgrounds with a broad variety of skills and interests. The overall objective was to design and construct new working environments that satisfy and accommodate the skills and needs of the digital generation.
What made the innovation format of Palomar5 special, that in order to work out questions, a creative space (a 2000sqm factory building) was created in which a multidisciplinary network actually lived and validated the solutions it was working on – like in an ongoing field trial.
But see for yourselves. The full movie, split in 2 parts, is now available on our site or on a our fancy Vimeo profile.
Here’s the trailer:
At this very place we’d like to shout out once again a big thanks to Deutsche Telekom, our main partner in 2009, for allowing this to happen and a big hug and thank you to our filmmaker and editor Patricia Günther, who accompanied most parts of the camp and made this movie possible.
Picture by Anna Lena Schiller
Happy new year. So this is it. Twentyten. Sounds promising already, ain’t it?
2009 was a great year, hell yes it was. We dreamt and we planned, we laughed and we cried, we failed and we succeeded… but after all we moved things. We could feel change happening. Not by proxy, but in the palms of our very hands. The buzzing in our fingertips, it was called joy. And be sure, it felt so good… almost addicting.
This is why we’d like to share once again what we’ve experienced so far. Where photos obviously lack the dimension of sound and motion and somehow fail to really tell what the Palomar5 camp was all about, we’re glad to show you a movie. Completely aware that 65.000 realtime minutes condensed in 60 movie minutes still circumsize way too many nuances, this is the closest we can get to the real thing.
Mid of January 2010, you will be able to watch “Palomar5 in 2009 – The Movie” at this very place – for free and in HD quality (if you have broadband). Follow us on twitter, facebook or rss our blog to get updated immediately once the movie is out.
At this very place we’d like to shout out once again a big thanks to Deutsche Telekom, our main partner in 2009, for allowing this to happen and a big hug and thank you to our filmmaker and editor Patricia Günther, who accompanied most parts of the camp and made this movie possible.
So this is the new year. Twentyten. And we’re back to work.
Yours, optimism and daringness is contagious, Palomar5.
Palomar5 in 2009 – The Movie (Trailer)
We uploaded three incredible new photo sets on our flickr account. Carolin Seeliger took pictures of our summit conference, the open day festival and a kick ass photo shooting. It was a blast.
The sets can be found here. Enjoy.
All photos by (c) by Carolin Seeliger
Here we go again. Meet Suyash Tiwari from India. As the head of the Telecom Innovation Lab in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. in India he’s responsible for coming up with new innovative, next generation solutions for customers that would help them to make an edge in the market resulting in better end customer service, reduced churn and providing various value added services, resulting in happy and satisfied customers. Phew.
Suyash also works towards identifying the pain areas in customers’ business and provide ideas to address them, these ideas are then incubated and tested to build innovative solutions where the experience is finally delivered to the customers. He has tried to establish a clear objective of transforming telecom as a horizontal across all other verticals and explore different ways of integrating next generation offerings hence providing a better holistic solution approach.
Regarding the camp, his expectations is to collaborate with people from different backgrounds and interact with them to share ideas and learn from various different perspectives and work together to come with innovative solutions. In addition to that Suyash feels that this camp will give a vent to all his ideas and energy and provide a better platform to develop his thinking horizons. So looking forward to fun filled learning experience as he is, are we.
As much as he has seen the blogs and forums and learnt about the camp by interacting with the organizers he’s happy to know that people here are given a free mind approach to collaborate together and come up with ideas which is the best way to work on new solutions as it is said that even chaos has some kind of order. His ultimate goal is to learn from interacting with people from different backgrounds and learn different approaches to devise solutions which would help him in his personal life as well as professionally.
Photo by Carolin Seeliger
Maryanna Rogers currently is a doctoral student in the Stanford School of Education. In research, work, and play, she’s been exploring the creative process of what is motivational about making things and how individuals stay interested and motivated during long term creative projects. In addition to her studies in Educational Psychology, she continues to address her insatiable desire to acquire design skills: machining metal and plastic, silversmithing, design thinking, woodworking….
Maryanna has an undergraduate degree in film and worked in the TV/Film industry for a few years. While working at a commercial editing boutique in NYC, she realized that in order to be a responsible media creator, she needed to know more about how her work was impacting viewers. That motivation lead her to UCLA for study and research in Psychology and onwards to Stanford for a Master’s in Learning, Design, and Technology. She has since then worked on several projects that integrate the desire to make things and the interest in human behavior with the ultimate goal of making the world a better place (for at least one person). Some projects include: a video-guided program for youth at-risk for depression and anxiety, a mobile phone application for children with OCD, psychoeducational curricula and comic books for Ethiopian sex workers.
Rather than a pragmatic take on the subject, Maryanna takes a more psychological, educational and sociological view on the Palomar5 experience. From the Palomar5 camp she expects camp to be full of the unexpected. She’s particularly excited about finding interesting ways of working together and inspiring each other. She’d like to finish the Palomar5 experience not only with interesting and generative ideas developed during the camp but first and foremost with an experiential understanding of what it’s like to collaborate with a diverse group of inspired brainiacs.
photo by (c) by Carolin Seeliger
25-year old Loek Ruijs from the Netherlands is a Kaospilot graduate and immensely experienced and skilled in creativity methods. These area all hard facts, but what really matters for Loek is to be one of the guys that are making a change. That guy that wants to make this world a better place.
‘First of all, I’m sorry I’m late but I took the best time I could choose to write about myself. About my goals, my passions and where I come from, and the best time to do that is when I’m totally honest. This is the time. There’s pressure on me and I had some beers.
This is the moment that I tell the world that I’m passionate about making a difference. I know I can do it. I learned it while I was lying on a bed being totally wrecked, feeling insecure and totally unhappy. But at the highlight of my greatest depression something happened. I visualized a book and it showed me that there are things I’m good at and I felt great immediately. Since that moment I knew that I could do and achieve everything I want.
I dreamed about achieving the greatest things. And dreaming about them doesn’t mean you should only dream of them. What it means when you experienced something like a big dream, even though it’s only in your mind, it means that it is already out there, that it already exists. You only have to make it happen. And the one thing I learned is that the one who has to make it happen is you! So, for this dream it’s going to be me who has to make it happen.
As I kind of said I had moments that I totally felt like a screw-up; I felt worthless and less than every single person that inspired me in some way. The main things I want to do is to show and give the next generation the feeling that they are capable of whatever they want, because when they’ve already envisioned a dream, it means it’s possible. When you feel good by thinking of achieving your dream, just do it! The only thing people need to make things happen is some self esteem. My self esteem still sucks at moments, but I’m working on it. How I do it? Just by being the one I feel like being each moment in my life. Adapt to the setting your in. I like that! And if I don’t like the setting, I change the setting.
So what I want to achieve in my life and through Palomar 5 is that every child in the world is able to see and read such a book as I saw in my dream. How I do this? Just wait and see.’
Loek Ruijs
Dreamer, Kaospilot & Palomar 5 camp resident.
23-year old Sagarika Sundaram from India, now staying in Dubai and having lived and worked in Melbourne, USA, Zürich, and London, is both a globetrotter and designer – graduated at India’s premier design school National Institute of Design. She sees the world through her designer eyes which means that reality shapes into ideas and impressions – and she can’t switch it off. It’s inherent. She sees the world in textures, scales and perspectives and is constantly thinking in shapes and color.
Sagarika thinks that anyone can achieve anything as long as you live for it an your heart keeps beating for this vision. You have to encounter your vision, because it won’t come to you. As a planning person who schedules life three years ahead, she now ran out of her life span plan and is free to freelance again. Searching for what keeps her heart beating. That’s why she joined Palomar5. To eventually find this little something.
19-year old Salina Kanji is a biology student at the University of Western Ontario (in Canada). This summer she directed the Camp Mosaic, a summer camp for kids aged 10-13 which attracted over 80 kids. In addition to that she won a National Scholarship for her efforts in community leadership (the scholarship is called TD Canada Trust Scholarship for community leadership). Salina also started an organization aimed at promoting cultural awareness in Canada called Education for All, Discrimination for None and helped to organize a conference called Compassion in Action which is aimed at getting university students interested in social entrepeneurship. As her passion mainly centers around social entrepreneurship, Salina thinks it’s truly possible for everyone to make a positive change in the world, and it doesn`t matter how small it is.
She’s attends the Palomar5 camp to hopefully help promote the idea that everyone can be and is a social entrepeneur. Whether you are part of a large corporation, or self-employed it is possible to make a positive impact or at least inspire others. Her expectations of the camp are thus very simple: to learn, grow, and challenge.
Salina’s ready and willing to help with whatever projects emerge from the camp, and work together on positive solutions for the future.
Meet Anastasia Kalinina. She lives in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she manages social projects to provide support for women, children and families in difficult life situations. In addition to that she’s also a writer and a poet.
She was involved in several projects that aimed to protect the rights of at-risk groups of people and provide them with access to quality social, psychological and medical services. The part of all the projects was digital media, social blogging and using online platforms to communicate social ideas. With the means of web tools she tried to influence policy and public opinion around the issues of the most vulnerable groups and provide them with access to up-to-date information on different social topics. Furthermore she was also involved in advocacy for human rights and protecting rights of minorities.
She’s the originator and coordinator of a web-project called ‘The All-Russian Resource Centre for HIV-positive women’ (womenhiv.ru) which attracted wide media coverage in Russia. She also took part in developing and coordinating Russian resources on domestic violence, human rights protection and issues of HIV-positive people.
Anastasia has a Master degree in Communication Studies with the special interest in web-networking, communication for social change, social web, web business cooperation, citizen media (specifically blogging or video-blogging) and Web 2.0. She’s passionate about social issues and sure that social web has an enormous power. With its help not only it is possible to fight for human rights and social enhancement but also it can spread information and make people around the world listen to each other and speak about their lives. Digital communications in emerging countries are the real power of web 2.0. The use of social web is a concrete and available chance to cross cultural boundaries and connect people in different areas.
According to Anastasia, the participation in the Palomar5 innovation camp will give her the chance to exchange opinions about social issues and the way those can be addressed from the point of view of a new emerging digital generation. Does new working environment imply working for a social change? Can new technology promote dialogue? Is Web 2.0 a clue for greater knowledge and better marketing? What is the role of CSR in the operation of corporations and self-motivation? Is there the place for social marketing in the new working environment? A young international audience, highly technically skilled and equipped in using social media, will definitely help finding the answers for these questions.
With the help of 29 additional smart fellows Anastasia will share a wonderful and intense experience of throwing ideas to each other and trying to find a way to change the world for the better.
Gijs Burgmeijer is a graphic designer from the Netherlands, currently studying in Berlin.
As you can tell from his background he obviously likes good(looking) products, books, prints, materials, constructions, drawings, buildings, photos and everything able to capture ideas and expressions. In the camp he wants to work with people on actually crafting such things, creating first-class things. This may sound too technical and manual, but on th eother hand he’s interested in the way available information is being used, the visual side of this in particular. Information design and even data visualisation have become quite popular, at least a lot of people like to talk or write about it, or even practice it. He thinks there is a lot of the same out there right now, ‘and I am not sure the quality is very high’, he says.
Let’s find out what paths he’ll follow in the camp and hope he won’t take the line of the least resistance.
From Mexico, please meet Gustavo Morales.
Gustavo Morales is an international business graduate, specialized in international finance and economy. He also studied development economy and north-south relations and one could say that he holds a very firm grasp on the way our financial system works. However, he’s not overly fond of that system. In fact, he’s not d’accord with it at all. That’s why he wants to change it. Gustavo strongly believes we find ourselves in an age that longs for change and innovation, the new generation demands it. Therein lies the opportunity to arise from conformity and “one-size-fits-all” paradigms, in the digital age information can be found almost anywhere and this can be used to our advantage. The modern human being is a source of creation, of constant change. This is where his real passions are: he’s a dedicated world traveler and an avid student of the mind, he loves all that is new, the unexplainable; the forces of human creation, like music and architecture. Dwelling outside the confines of all that we know, living far from comfort zones so we can create new questions that need answering.
What he’s most thrilled about in the Palomar5 camp is meeting with like-minds from different parts of the globe. During the past three years he found out for himself what it’s all about, because it was and still is in those talks where revolutionary thinking is not only encouraged, but needed. Being with people that hail from different cultures, upbringings and mindsets requires you to think outside the box, to question your own beliefs and paradigms. The opportunity of bringing together 30 such forward-thinking minds is golden, being a part of it is priceless.
For him, one of the main opportunity areas for change is the robotic existence in which most of current-day work environments put people into. Gustavo thinks we need to address digital-age solutions and technological advantages, along with more abstract but equally important concepts such as individuality, human emotion and self-expression. Work is necessary and it’s a very good thing, making it feel that way for everyone is a start towards real, world-scale change.
Axelle Tessandier did a Master in Audiovisual, Media Law and Communication at La Sorbonne in Paris, and was ready to become the next Endemol’s Big boss… until she changed her mind. It’s not what she wanted, she needed to do something way bigger.
After different experiences in media, TV, press and foremost cinema, she’s now working on her own, on subjects matching her interests.
She among others did missions for Internews and the Earth Journalism Awards for United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. Currently she’s doing a mission for Kinomé based on Reforestation. She’s a consultant on web communication and content strategy and if she can give a “social” dimension to it, it’s even better.
To break it down on a more daily basis, she’s passionate about politics. She thinks that being aged enough to have an opinion about what’s going on around someone, having an impact, and a good one, on any social environment is something really important and necessary. The love for cinema was the reason she picked audiovisual as her field of studies. In the movies, she sees a source of sincere emotion, wild imagination, multisensorial sensation and most of all critical questioning. A source to question the world or rethink it. On her more geeky side she basically drowns in the internet and its infinite possibility, groundbreaking development and the upcoming challenges for forthcoming generation. Her curiosity always brings her to new grounds. Planning is dying. Smiling is breathing. That simply nails it, according to Axelle.
Axelle thinks, Palomar5 will be the concrete expression of all she has dreamt to do until right now: to gather her personality, her few abilities and knowledges and enthusiasm in a very stimulating environment as the team chosen by Palomar5 finds itself in this incubation space to rethink and imagine new ways of working and by consequence living adequate to our generation and expectations to let it express all its potential.
To reach this goal, she first of all tries to be useful, as she feels lucky to be part of it. On a pragmatic way she wants to built the project, help to create a nice atmosphere with good energy, be useful to people sharing their lives during these 6 weeks. Useful to propose ideas, concrete solution to shape a working environment in which who you are is totally relevant with what you do. And the further she thinks about this whole concept, the more obsessed she gets. ‘What I will do with pleasure, passion and with quality, for free?’ Her answer will be her job.
She’s a constant runner, ever in motion. Running, searching, digging, discovering, sometimes failing, sometimes winning, but always learning. For what purpose? That’s the question and for god’s sake, you’ll probably never get the answer. Axelle agrees and is completely fine with that.
Piet Hoffman from the Netherlands studied communication technology back in 2001. 4 years later her did an internship a Veronica Holding, a dutch media organization. There he’s combining dutch media inheritage with new media and (live) entertainment, crossmedia operations including radio, internet, events and video both in production and exploration. He’s passionate about music, theatre, internet, science fiction, cartoons and history.
Due to an accident, doing the work the way he did moved from doing it at the office to online. And there are quit a lot of (practical) obstacles in the way of producing and working in this online environment. At Palomar5 he’d like to go and find out where we can use the virtual world to use as an office. Why do we go to the office? Is it necessary? I like to know and hear different point of views and find out.
Another day, another feature. Welcome Jessica Altenburger from Switzerland.
Jessica just moved back to her native town Zurich after spending a year in London, where she worked for a small furniture design firm. The spirit of change surrounds her and she’s redoing, improving, creating – trying to wipe off old dust and get ready for a new chapter in her life. That’s why she can’t await for the camp to begin.
As she’s a product designer, she’s very passionate about art and design; ‘They have always been in my head and always will be’, she says. However, the functional aspects fascinates her more than the decorative ones. She strongly believes that the function is the key to the user’s happiness and to a long life span of a product.
Everything new and different fascinates her whether it is in science, politics, literature, or music. However, what she enjoys observing and reading most about is quite simply – human behavior. It’s her biggest inspiration and everything about it, from the source (brain) to the final consequences.
From the Palomar5 camp she expects to dive into an atmosphere loaded with motivation, creativity, and productivity. She can’t wait to start working together with people from all around the world and from various disciplines. She hopes it to turn out as a great learning experience and a valuable exchange of knowledge. ‘Myself, I am most interested in the working environment on a small scale – the office. That’s where my daily frustration comes from. I want to change everything from the set-up of the space, to the way we interact with our ‘tools’, to the interaction with each other, and the way we structure our daily processes’, she tells. Ideas can turn out abstract or tangible, but the hope to be able to change perspectives on things and create visions that will be valuable beyond the camp should last.
See her application video for Palomar5:
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