Category: digital culture

Open Workspace @ Openeverything Berlin

This month we’ll be talking about new forms of co-working, collaboration, and office sharing. Joining us: Hallenprojekt (Berlin) – Sebastian Sooth (Twitter: sebaso) Station C (Montreal) – Patrick Tanguay (Identica: patrick, Twitter: inevernu) Betahaus (Berlin) – Jan Tanner (Twitter: betahaus) Where:  newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48,…

Open Design @ oebf Mar. 26

The second Open Everything Berlin Fokus kicks off 26.03.09 at 7.30 pm, newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48. The theme? Open Design. We invite designers, retailers, thinkers, makers and users to discuss and share their point of view and experience in the field of OPEN DESIGN. We…

openeverything focus + CC Salon

Last night we kicked off the openeverything focus series, a Berliner initiative to explore and promote “openness” in a range of fields and applications. About 30 guests joined us in christening oefb, which willl be held regularly every fourth Thursday of the month in newthinking…

HOPE on a Slippery Slope

The most iconic 2008 U.S. election image is under fire. Shepard Fairey’s Obama “HOPE” poster is getting heat from Associated Press, the news agency that claims Fairey’s work infringes on AP’s copyrights. For months, the internets have been a-buzz trying to identify the original photograph…

Street With a View

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about augmented reality. How can digital information be connected with physical objects? How can the spaces between online and offline worlds be bridged? Mostly, these thoughts cluster around object hyperlinking and locative art. Could we, for example, make a…