Making things together in sewing circles, maker spaces or art contexts, is not only about making new things. It can also enable co-articulations of issues related to living with technologies. Such issues could for example concern everyday use of mobile phones, conditions of production of these phones as well as material effects of the same phones when they become e-waste. These are some of the issues that we discussed during Bits and Beers: Maker at Republikken in Copenhagen on February 28th.
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HYBRID MATTERs
HYBRID MATTERs is a two year Nordic art&science network program which investigates matters that emerge in a digital and postindustrial era. As part of this research project we invite to a series of events where we engage with two hybrid

HYBRID MATTERs
HYBRID MATTERs is a two year Nordic art&science network program which investigates matters that emerge in a digital and postindustrial era. As part of this research project we invite to a series of events where we engage with two hybrid

Arttech workshop at Mitt Möllan
During a three day long drop in workshop we invited software developers, designers, artists, financers, project leaders, engineers and other working with art and technology to explore financing models and meeting spaces for Arttech practices and actors. On Saturday April

Arttech workshop at Mitt Möllan
During a three day long drop in workshop we invited software developers, designers, artists, financers, project leaders, engineers and other working with art and technology to explore financing models and meeting spaces for Arttech practices and actors. On Saturday April

Mobile Mining
“I wont’ give you my mobile phone – there’s too much gold in it!”, a man said as we were collecting discarded mobile phones in an area in northern Sweden where mining has been ongoing for centuries. Tensions have yet

Mobile Mining
“I wont’ give you my mobile phone – there’s too much gold in it!”, a man said as we were collecting discarded mobile phones in an area in northern Sweden where mining has been ongoing for centuries. Tensions have yet

Public defence
January 24th we defended our thesis Patchworking Publics-in-the-Making – Design, Media and Public Engagement. Opponent: Nina Wakeford, Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London.

Public defence
January 24th we defended our thesis Patchworking Publics-in-the-Making – Design, Media and Public Engagement. Opponent: Nina Wakeford, Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London.
Seminar on Gender, Design and Pedagogy
A handful of researchers and teachers in higher education from across Sweden will gather 17-18 December in Malmö to explore what feminst design teaching in higher education is already – if it even exists at all – and could be
Seminar on Gender, Design and Pedagogy
A handful of researchers and teachers in higher education from across Sweden will gather 17-18 December in Malmö to explore what feminst design teaching in higher education is already – if it even exists at all – and could be

Transmissions and Entanglements
Public lecture on invitations at Transmissions and Entanglements: Uses of inventive methods, in London. Invited by Kat Jungnickel at the department of Sociology at Goldsmiths.

Transmissions and Entanglements
Public lecture on invitations at Transmissions and Entanglements: Uses of inventive methods, in London. Invited by Kat Jungnickel at the department of Sociology at Goldsmiths.

Fashion and textiles at Culumus 2013
During a workshop on fashion and textiles at Culumus 2013 Kalmar.the participants were invited to make a collaborative patchwork out of discarded garments that the members of the group had brought with them. Working with the material the participants’ had

Fashion and textiles at Culumus 2013
During a workshop on fashion and textiles at Culumus 2013 Kalmar.the participants were invited to make a collaborative patchwork out of discarded garments that the members of the group had brought with them. Working with the material the participants’ had

P.S. Sorry if I Woke You – an SMS novel on about being dumped, patched back together again and getting there
”P.S. I am sorry if I woke you” started with us taking on the role of contemporary rag pickers, in the project UNRAVEL / REPEAT. The figure of rag pickers was chosen partly because it is a character that would

P.S. Sorry if I Woke You – an SMS novel on about being dumped, patched back together again and getting there
”P.S. I am sorry if I woke you” started with us taking on the role of contemporary rag pickers, in the project UNRAVEL / REPEAT. The figure of rag pickers was chosen partly because it is a character that would

Post Conference, EASST /4S
å+k invited for and organised a Post-conference to digest the Science and Technology Studies conference EASST /4S. The afternoon and evening was devoted to possible future collaborations mainly between School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University and Lancaster University. Thanks

Post Conference, EASST /4S
å+k invited for and organised a Post-conference to digest the Science and Technology Studies conference EASST /4S. The afternoon and evening was devoted to possible future collaborations mainly between School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University and Lancaster University. Thanks

MEND*RS symposium
UNRAVEL/REPEAT at MEND*RS, the first Mending Research Symposium in the Lake District, England, to work with all the delegates on the collected mobile phones to seek a provisional answer to the question: What does it mean to bring these technologies as well as

MEND*RS symposium
UNRAVEL/REPEAT at MEND*RS, the first Mending Research Symposium in the Lake District, England, to work with all the delegates on the collected mobile phones to seek a provisional answer to the question: What does it mean to bring these technologies as well as