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After a thrilling first year that ended with a six week innovation camp in Berlin in oct/nov 2009, we took some time to reflect and document. We also started to discuss and plan our future activities. Within the Palomar5 coreteam there are different views on how things should be, so we decided to allow us to go into different directions and make both things happen. What does that mean?
Dominik, Simon and Jonathan are leaving the Palomar5 coreteam to found a new project called “until we see new land”. You can read a first draft of their mission on their preliminary website. We often talk about action: Acting on impulse and on the heart and relying on the trust and support of the community. That’s how we like get things done. We are happy to have taken the step of letting each other reach our goals independently. This will open up new opportunities for all involved.
While Hans is on paternity leave, Mathias and Pippin will continue to develop Palomar5 together with residents and partners. Palomar5 should be understood as a platform for building and referencing your ideas and as a prototype of a networked organization: A self-curating brand for synergetic projects. As such Palomar5 stands for freedom, trust and positive innovation.
Next up at Palomar5 is a re-structuring of our organizational framework in order to properly display and share the action in the community and our two hubs in Berlin and San Francisco. We intend to open up more space for discussion and new ventures under the brand Palomar5. Major current projects around Palomar5 include the Education Initiative, Creative Space Book, x-runner, Open Design City, Bioplastics Lab, Openfood Lab, Innovation Inspiration Lab, Digital Pilgrim and P5 India. Updates on these will follow soon.
Palomar5 is an enterprise to which not just the coreteam and the 28 residents of the camp but many others have brought a lot of of energy, time and love – many of them “for free”. We would like to thank everyone that supports us. Palomar5 and “Until we see new land” are looking forward on continued work to make a helpful impact on this world of ours – together with you.
Last week, as we planned our first fail conference with Your Neighbours and KS12, we went to the streets, armed with cameras and microphones, to collect some random thoughts and opinions on the sensible topic of failure. At first we insidiously hunted down defenceless civilians and forced them to share their most precious secrets. This, however, didn’t work out that well. We had to change tactics. We sat down a moment and in our introspection we were joined by random people. We had not changed tactics, tactics changed us. By simply resting on the sidewalk and having a smoke, we were told stories about failure, about the downward spiral of drug addiction, about unreasonableness in love relationships, about learning that failure is deeply human and that with every failure comes a lesson.
It was remarkable how frank people we never met and will never ever see again shared their personal failures in life.
These encounters set the tone for the actual event last friday.
In our humble office with a granny’s chair, loads of pillows and the dim light of a billion candles we familialy calmed down and curiously listened to the three invited speakers’ stories about failure. First Ole Seidenberg shared his story he had with Uwe – who’s been a homeless heroin addict for over thirty years. Adam Rice took us on his rollercoaster ride he had in his job life and the lessons he learned from losing it all. After a short break, Kwela Hermanns enchanted us with more personal insights and that life can never be choreographed, just like a dance of tango. As a cute little detail bracketing the evening, a short message from Uwe summarized the main lessons of the evening – that everything will eventually turn out well.
And it was this very personal short message which underlined the whole atmosphere at the gathering. Intimate, honest, at moments silent, but never awkward, inspiring and optimistic to its core. It felt just like Christmas without the pretentious kitsch.
We think it was a very special occasion and this is why we’d like to thank every single one of our guests – and especially the speakers openly sharing their misfortunes and our friends of Your Neighbours and KS12 for realizing this conference – for having our very own Christmas in May. This was truely magical.
KS12 did a documentation of the event, it’s in the making, we’re so thrilled to see this, we’ll keep you updated. Sparkles.
My education expedition continues to be a blast, but I haven’t been able to share that joy online as it happens. By now it’s been 34 days and 3,800 miles across the country, yet only one lousy blogpost. So I’m changing approach. Welcome to the first video dispatch from my journey.
Provo, Utah — p5edu day 34 from Basti Hirsch on Vimeo.
Revolutions always seem to start in Coffee Shops. This one will admittedly be out the back of one.
Palomar 5 is proud to be a part of what promises to be a truly epic collaboration with Betahaus, Bausteln, Lasern Lasern, mechatronik werkstatt and many others in emerging the first Fab Lab in Berlin.
Palomar 5 will bring tools, materials, and events into the space, as well as collaborating with all participants to create a commercially sustainable lab.
This promises to be huge, and is yet another indicator of the blossoming Berlin maker scene – dubbed the Berlin Beta Collective (a title in beta), which is collaborating to bring Open Design to DMY (another post to follow on this).
Palomar 5 is very excited to attend and hopefully contribute to http://www.breizh-entropy.org/, with quotes like:
“Through a meeting fostering open-mindedness, exchange of ideas and learning, we hope to show solutions to technical, social and political problems, and celebrate free, reclaimed and creative art and technology”
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“break artificial boundaries between disciplines and find unexpected ways of doing things that promote liberalization, sharing and reclaiming of technologies that traditionally belonged to the realm of corporations and well-funded academic labs”
We certainly share some common values and areas of exploration. Should be a fun event, with much to be learned and shared.
Picture by GAFFTA
We’re proud to now officially announce that Palomar5 extends its network of participants, experts and partners to proceed the exploration of creative spaces. While continuing operations at the newly renovated Berlin home base, we’re spreading our wings internationally to continue working on existing projects, spark new ideas and boost discussions about emerging topics and the projects from the camp.
For this effort we’ve found ourselves an excellent partner in the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) to make the world a better place. The GAFFTA team are likeminds and do also believe in the synergical benefits of open exchange, multidisciplinary surroundings and the will for change. Palomar5 is also teaming up with the GAFFTA to host interactive workshops and other events in the GAFFTA studio to share experiences with the public and kick-off new ideas and discussions together.
About GAFFTA: Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture. Guided by the principles of openness, collaboration, and resource sharing, our programs promote creativity at the intersection of art, design, sound, and technology. By making digital culture accessible, substantive and inspiring, we aim to help realize the greatest power of technology: to bring us closer, faster.
Yesterday afternoon, between 1.00-3.00pm, we and several residents of the Palomar5 camp hosted a play- & workshop under the theme “being human” at the Transmediale, in the House of World Cultures. The workshop was about digital lifestyle, analog behavior and first and foremost human interaction.
This is why we invited people not to spectate but interact. After showing how to make plastic in the microwave with supermarket ingredients, and create blow moulded and hand moulded plastic prototypes you finally could get hands on cooking with degradable and environmentally awesome bioplastics. You could even see the incredibly stunning 3D-printing makerbot (by bausteln) in action and join our random sillyness and fun time.
We had a super amount of fun, we hope you did, too.
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 are entering the City of Love – Paris.
We’ll be there from the 3rd to the 4th of february to present Palomar5, share and exchange.
If you are interested – join us.
We are looking forward to get to know you.
Or follow the live stream.
But… what is silicon sentier?
Silicon Sentier is a cluster of 150 small and middle-sized companies, located in Paris.
Its members participate in R&D as well as experimentation programs on mobile segments, FTTH (fiber to the home), social networks, etc…
Silicon Sentier has launched events and workshops with Google, Yahoo, Mozilla, Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and many other companies and smaller or bigger communities.
Silicon Sentier has created La Cantine in February 2008. Located at the heart of Paris, la Cantine offers a meeting place for the community to work, develop, learn, contribute and promote.
À bientôt à Paris, nous nous réjouissons à l’avance.
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)
Team: Jay, Valentin
Working only on computers limits our thinking, Computers are linear, hierarchical and ineffiecient, bring functions into physical space, saves time, makes life easier, systems quicker and more efficient. Dada technology is a manifesto highlighting the need for physical interfaces, both from a human, and organisational perspective. Within this frame, we will develop ideas for how physical interfaces can be used for more effective and human computer use.
Team: Edward, Sagarika, Gijs, Joep
Current media landscapes are increasingly becoming overloaded with information and data. As the digital environment becomes more ubiqitous, this tide is unlikely to stop. Secondly, data still remains segmented and indecipherable for the user. The amateur does not have the tools or capacity to understand and tell stories within this environment. Vision: Storytelling is evolving and needs reinventing once again. We want to allow people to make stories using the information rich data that is currently available and will continue to grow. We want to bring emotion to data. We want to provide a means by which users can effectively search, collect, remix and distribute data/information and in so doing, allow them to tell compelling digital stories.
Team: Zeesy
Total Honesty is about understanding that communicating our judgements can be a means to build, not destroy.
The gap between PERCEPTION and REALITY presents both an opportunity and a catastrophy. The degree to which you are willing to communicate with a person is the degree to which you are willing to include them. All problems in human society, if not directly caused by poor communication, are aggrivated by it.
We can’t stop ourselves from passing judgments, but we can at least try to understand why we came to those conclusions in the first place.
Total Honesty began as an offer of total honesty in exchange for a token amount of money. In its current incarnation, the exchange of money has been replaced with the accountability of an audience. As difficult as it is to face total honesty from a stranger, friend or acquaintance, it is even more difficult to face your own judgments, and attempt to express them to the judged. In front of an audience, guests volunteer to come on stage in a daytime talk-show setting and have the “host” tell the exactly what s/he thinks of them. “Bullshit Detectors” are invited to challenge the host on her/his perceptions of the guest, providing alternative viewpoints on the impressions. Both speaker and listener are forced to confront their perceptions with the reality presented by others. Through this, some kind of honesty can be found.
Team: Apurv, Gustavo, Jessica
Inspire Bureau is an invitation only social community dedicated to young entrepreneurs. It provides a system of couch surfing, conference talks, and traveling. In the future, the system will provide a presentation boutique where clients can scout young speakers for consulting and implementation work.
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