DMY Maker Lab
Yesterday I visited DMY Berlin, one of Berlin’s leading design festivals. In this post I’d like to share a few impressions. This year, DMY was held at the recently-closed airport Tempelhof, so needless to say the architecture there is quite a backdrop for a design festival. (Check out what Flickr has to offer on Tempelhof.) [...]
Drumbeat Berlin
Yesterday Mozilla held an event in Berlin to build ground support for their new open web initiative Drumbeat. For the super-brief version of what Drumbeat is all about, let me quote Mark Surman from the first Drumbeat blog post: At its simplest, Mozilla Drumbeat is about everyday internet users using technology to make and do [...]
Weeknotes #186
The paperwork up front: As J. pointed out, weeknotes aren’t supposed to start at number #001 necessarily but rather at the first week of whatever it is you’re making notes on. I had a bit of a hard time finding a good starting point, but now figured one out: So from now on I’ll count [...]
Digital Nomads on taz.de
German newspaper taz has a special edition this week: to celebrate its 31st anniversary, the editors under 31 years took over and produced the paper. One of the topics the focused on is digital nomads and new ways of working, in other words: knowledge workers, coworking, you name it. The talked to a bunch of [...]
Open Design & Tinkering in Berlin
Lately so much has been going on in Berlin that has to do with the whole field of open design, tinkering, DIY – and last week was another highlight. I had the chance to drop in at the Open Design Workshop at Betahaus. (Sadly I could only pop in for a few minutes, but that [...]
Global Ignite Week 2010
I hinted at it already, but now it’s official: Berlin will be part of Global Ignite Week (GIW) during the first week of March 2010 (March 1-4): Four Nights, >40 Cities, 500 Talks, 10,000 Igniters Join us for the first Global Ignite Week, where Igniters around the world (we’re shooting for Ignites on all seven [...]
TEDxKreuzberg wrap-up
Last Thursday we held TEDxKreuzberg over at Betahaus. Now after a couple of days of recovery and some more travel (I’m writing this while in Karlsruhe, where I’ll be based for the next few weeks), it’s time to share some impressions. Short-short version: I loved it! The crowd was great as were the vibes, and [...]
Mass customization vs DIY?
Today I quickly stopped by Holy Shit Shopping, a medium-sized design and crafts fair that has been held in Berlin annually in the Christmas time for the last three or four years. The stuff I saw made me think a little, so here’s a few thoughts. (disclaimer: unfiltered and straight from the train.) First of [...]
Palomar5 (some impressions)
Even though a few friends of mine have been directly involved in the project, I had been watching Palomar5 from a distance. (Mostly because I was literally, physically far away.) I spent most of the day there and came away with a lot of impressions, and also pretty impressed. Let me share a few things [...]
atoms&bits Festival: Thanks everyone!
So last weekend was the highlight of atoms&bits Festival that we had put together in hardly 10 weeks. While we’re recovering from the weekend and also putting together the documentation (i.e. all the blogposts, photos, videos etc), I’d like to briefly say THANK YOU to everybody involved. THANKS to the participants, who were super active [...]
