MAZI Workshop: Tools for Urban Activism
Within the activities of the EU Project MAZI*: A DIY networking toolkit for location-based collective awareness, INURA Zurich Institut and NetHood invite the INURA conference participants in Bucharest to the MAZI Workshop.
Saturday September 3, 2016
12.00-13.30 Opening Lunch
Venue: Terrace of “Cercul Militar National”
1-3 Constantin Mille Street, 010141 Bucharest
Venue: University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”
18-20 Academiei Street, 010700 Bucharest
1st Floor, Seminar Room next to Sala Frescelor
13.45-14.00 Introduction to the MAZI project*, by Ileana Apostol, Panayotis Antoniadis, and Andreas Unteidig
14.00-14.30 MAZI Pilot Studies, by
- Philipp Klaus: Kraftwerk1/NeNa1, Zurich & INURA coop initiative
- Anna Heilgemeir: Neighbourhood academy @Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin
- Jeffrey Andreoni: unMonastery
14.30-16.30 Panel discussion on different forms of urban activism with:
- Iva Cukic, Ministry of Space, Belgrade
- Ksenija Radovanovic, Ministry of Space, Belgrade
- Brett Scott, Suitpossum, London
- Thomas Raoseta, NeNa1, 5im5i, Zurich
- Vesna Tomse, Wunderkammer, Zurich
- Tomislav Tomasevic, Institute for Political Ecology, Zagreb
- Gintarė Matulaitytė, Locomotive Press, Vilnius
- Constantina Theodorou, City Issue, #ThisIsACoop, Athens
- Tiberiu-Cezar, Technoetic, Bucharest
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
17.00-18.00 Parallel Workshops Part 1
Major challenges and needs of activists
18.00-19.30 Parallel Workshops Part 2
How technology and especially DIY networking can support urban activism
19.30-20.00 Workshops Debriefing
20.00-22.00 Roundtable Discussion and Dinner
+ during the INURA retreat, James Stevens, SPC, London, will present the Deptford pilot study and offer a hands-on workshop on how to customize and deploy a MAZI zone using the MAZI toolkit (a set of ready-to-use Raspberry Pis will be offered to those activists that would like to use them in their future actions)
* MAZI (meaning “together” in Greek) is a EU Horizon 2020 project, which develops DIY networking technology that enable citizens to promote collective awareness, self-organization and sustainable urban life, and to claim the right to the hybrid city, around four concrete pilot studies, of direct interest to the INURA network:
- the young cooperative housing and living projects in Zurich.
- Berlin’s urban garden prinzessinnengarten and neighbourhood academy
- Deptford’s network of local communities, organizations and activists in London
- the nomadic group unMonastery
In addition to sharing our experiences from these pilot studies, the goal of the MAZI workshop is to introduce DIY ICT technologies to participants in the INURA conference, and to explore ways of enabling urban activists to pursue their objectives with the support of such technologies.
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