Open Source Washing Machine Project - Jean Noel Montagné (Craslab)
July 14-17 2009 - 10 AM - Plage Bricolage - Aziestraat 1 - 9000 Ghent
A four day workshop where we’ll be rethinking, designing and developing open source washing machines.
Using recycled parts and sustainable energy we’ll be building working washing machine prototypes.
Bring your dirty underwear and join this workshop by sending a mail to summercamp@timelab.org!
cost: €5/day for the workshop. €20/day extra for lunch & diner (optional)
” The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we wash clothes around the world, in accordance with economical, sociological, cultural and environmental aspects. Most of the people in this planet, mostly women, wash clothes by hand in harsh conditions related to poverty, lack of sanitation, water or energy.
The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and Open source microcontroller was born in spring 2008 during an Open Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris. We had to rethink the economical, sociological and technical concepts of washing clothes in a consciousness of sustainable development and respect of the natural and human environment. We had to rethink the implication of technology in simple daylife, through the millenary painful activity of washing clothes.
How open source technologies can be related to both global and local contexts? how the exchange of knowledge through open resources and open source communities creates the organisation model of such projects ? how the model of self-organisation and technological autarchy will be crucial in the next years, when the effects of the petrol/climate crisis will affect deeply all civilisation?
The art-sensitive resource centre Craslab (Centre de Ressources Art Sensitif) welcomes all those wishing to learn about and test out real-time interactive technologies in the arts: artists, students, teachers and artistic and technological partners. The C.R.A.S. demonstration room for the self-learning of interactive technologies (sensors, actuators, on-line documents, etc.) is an open source project. The C.R.A.S. also supports educational programmes on free hardware and software like Arduino, CUI, Processing and Pure Data.”
Workshop by Jean-Noël Montagné. French artist and activist born in 1963. Creates interactive installations with sensing technologies since 1991. Last installation: “Je te parlerai dans un reflet de lumière”, 2006/2007, an interactive installation on the subject of the walls for separating rich and poor. Founder of the non-profit NGO “Art Sensitif ” related to relations between art and science for interactive art. Founder and director of CRAS ressource center for interactive technologies in Paris-Saint Ouen.
