Workshop 1: Customising the MAZI Toolkit

Workshop 1: Customising the MAZI Toolkit. Do-It-Yourself Technologies for Action and Empowerment: Stories, practice and perspectives For people with experience of software programming. Themes: #WiFi-networking #RaspberryPi #DigitalArts #CommunityEngagement #Making-Hacking You can attend either or both sessions - Tuesday 16th Oct and Wednesday 17th. Repeat the booking process to attend both. Find out about the open source software behind the MAZI toolkit, running on Raspberry Pis. The toolkit enables the creation of a local WiFi network zone, along with customised application. Raspberry Pis will be provided so you can try out the software and work on your own individual project or in small groups. We advise you to bring a laptop. Lead by James Stevens, SPC.org, Mark Gaved, Open University, and a representative from the University of Thessaly, Greece.  More about the MAZI DIY networking toolkit. Full details about the Symposium and both Workshops ACCESS: please note that the event takes place in the Dissection Room at Summerhall. There is some restricted access, please contact us (email option below) for more details. Other events (free to attend) include a symposium and half-day workshops/hackathons Full details and booking: www.mazizone.eu/mazi-workshops-and-symposium-2018-edinburgh-uk/ The symposium (18th October) will present case studies from our pilot studies in Berlin, Zurich, London and northern Greece, along with talks by invited speakers. Building on the context of our own MAZI experiences, we will broaden out the debate with perspectives from outside the project. Symposium Speakers include: Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, and the Rootio Project Janis Lena Meissner, Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University Denise Allan, Wee Replicators, Edinburgh Elizabeth Wright & Loyane Bianchini, Reverso, São Paulo, Brazil Adnan Hadzi, Digital Arts, University of Malta The half-day workshops (16th & 17th October) will provide “hands-on” opportunities to try out the MAZI DIY networking toolkit, based around the Raspberry Pi. The workshops will be divided into two groups: Workshop 1 will be for programmers and technical enthusiasts who are interested in finding out more about it all works, and perhaps getting involved in supporting the on-going development of the open-source project. Workshop 2 is for technical novices with an interest in how the technologies can be used in domains such as; education, art & creativity, and civic & community participation. The MAZI EU H2020 project partners are:  NITlab, University of Thessaly, Greece (Project Coordinator) NetHood, Zurich-based non-profit organization, Switzerland Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany The Open University, UK INURA Zurich Institute, Switzerland SPC in Deptford, London, UK Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin, Germany unMonastery, nomadic group, UK & Greece.