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20130419 45 minutes of Success Story Telling, JCI Rabat, Cesar HARADA Gabriella LEVINE

20130419 Success_story

Dans le cadre de la série de conférences “45 minutes of Success Story Telling”, la JCI Rabat a le plaisir d’accueillir Mr. Cesar HARADA et Ms. Gabriella LEVINE pour une conférence sous le thème “Success Story of Change Makers”
Cesar Harada est inventeur, Environmentaliste et Entrepreneur Franco-Japonais, il est TED Senior Fellow.
CEO de Protei, César est actuellement en train de developper “Protei” – un navire autonome à voile révolutionnaire, à coque à forme variable.”
Gabriella Levine est américaine, Hardware Designer & Hacker, Top women in Tech (Adafruit), Master de ITP Tisch de New York, et COO de Protei.
Soyez Parmi nous pour les découvrir et partager leur expérience.

Facebook Event

20130420 PROTEI HACKATHON !!! April 20th in Casablanca Morocco

Protei Hackathon Poster !

Custom PROTEI HACKATHON Website : protei.org/hackathon
Facebook Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/592168350801583

DATE: Samedi 20 Avril 2013, 10:00 – 23:00
LOCATION: ESITH  Eole Supérieure des Industries du Textile et de l’Habillement. Route d’Eljadida, km 8, BP 7731 – Oulfa, Casablanca, Maroc. Plan
LANGUES : Francais, English, Arabic

 

make code sail share

 
Above from right to left : “Make, Code, Sail, Share”.

SUMMARY
Venez fabriquer des robots a voile basés sur micro-controller Arduinoraspberry πservomotorsDC moteur et autre senseurs pendant une journée inoubliable d’électromécanique, de code, de test dans l’eau, de Kinecthacks, de rencontres. Nous fabriquerons des coques de bateau, des mats, des voiles, des boitiers de contrôle mécanique, assemblerons des circuits électroniques, programmerons, testerons nos machines sur l’eau, partagerons sur les réseaux sociaux. Nous discuterons aussi les principes du mouvement DIY et Open Hardware (technologies ouvertes et gratuites).
Protei (page facebook) est un navire autonome Open Source a coque articulé developé pour explorer et nettoyer les océans. Les océans souffrent de marées noires, de pollution plastique, fuites radioactives, surpêche, mort des récifs coralliens, changement climatique, montée du niveau de la mer. Nous devons developer ensemble des technologies àtants la hauteur de ces défis.

 

Cesar Harada Gabriella Levine El Wali El Alaoui Darren Bennett


INSTRUCTEURS

Le Hackathon est ouvert aux experts comme au débutants sera facilité par :
Cesar HARADA (France-Japon): Inventeur du system Protei de bateau à coque articulé, Ex-Project Leader au MIT, TED Fellow.
Gabriella LEVINE (USA) : Hardware Designer & Hacker, Top women in Tech (Adafruit), Master de ITP Tisch de New York.
El Wali El Alaoui (Maroc): Fondateur de SaharaLabs / Tarfaya Hackerspace, premier et unique hackerspace au Maroc.
Darren Bennett (USA): Directeur créatif, Microsoft Studios, Membre de groupe a l’origine de la Kinect.

 

PROGRAMME 

  • 10:00 – 11:00 : Introduction du mouvement Open Hardware. Protei, robot naviguant. Introduction du Workshop. Questions. Formation des groupes.
  • 11:00 – 12:30 : Prototypage rapide. 3 cycles rapide de design en petits groupes.
  • 12:30 – 13:00 : Dejeuner leger.
  • 13:00 – 14:45 : Fabrication de bateaux robotises en petits groupes. Revue par les instructeurs.
  • 14:45 – 15:00 : Presentation interne entre groupes.
  • 15:00 – 16:30 : Construction des prototypes.
  • 16:30 – 17:00 : Nous marcherons avec les prototypes de l’ISETH au lac le plus proche. http://goo.gl/maps/Z5opH
  • 17:00 – 18:00 : Test dans l’eau, photos, video, documentation.
  • 18:00 – 19:00 : Diner
  • 19:30 – 23:00 : Sceance d’approfondissement pour celles et ceux qui veulent aller plus loin, améliorer les prototypes, documenter et partager sur les réseaux sociaux.

 

RESPONSABILITE CIVILE | LICENSE | DROIT A L’IMAGE

Chacun des participants du workshop est libre, responsable et ne peux poursuivre les organisateurs, l’hote, les partenaires, les sponsors, les medias presents en cas d’accident corporel, de vol ou de perte des biens ou de donnees.
Tout ce qui sera produit lors du workshop est publie sous license open source : Hardware (CERN OH), Code (GNU GPL) Documentation (dessin, photo, video, diagrames, textes) sousCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Chaque participant permets aux medias presents d’utiliser les photos et videos capturees pendant la duree du workshop.


AGE MINIMUM : 18 Ans, ou accompagne par les parents. 

FRAIS D’ADMISSION : 150 DH a l’entree. Boisson et nourriture inclus. Amenez des outils, des composants et des materiaux.
INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE :https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HPJYWniY3YFLlcMmlz-2puLsYvO-QKSnlToYnfX0VIs/viewform
REJOIGNEZ LE GROUPE “PROTEI HACKATHON” SUR FACEBOOK : Joindre le goupe Facebook n’est pas une inscription formelle. Pour participer au Hackathon il est obligatoire de s’inscrire.

 

proteisaharalabsciseenactus esithmicrosoftunreasonable mediaThalassa

 

20130420 Promoting Protei Hackathon Morocco April 20th

Protei hackathon in Morocco

Protei is coming to Morocco !!!
With a Massive Hackathon !!!!
It will take place Saturday April 20th all day, we are looking for a location – so apologies for the french – english mix below.
Protei in partnership with SaharaLabs / Tarfaya Hackerspace / Thalassa / Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship – Moroccan CISE

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Francais
Venez fabriquer des robots a voile basés sur micro-controller Arduino, Raspberry π, servo-motors, DC moteur et autre senseurs pendant une journée inoubliable d’électromécanique, de code, de test dans l’eau, de rencontres. Nous fabriquerons des coques de bateau, des mats, des voiles, des boitiers de contrôle mécanique, assemblerons des circuits électroniques, programmerons, testerons nos machines sur l’eau, partagerons sur les réseaux sociaux. Nous discuterons aussi les principes du mouvement DIY et Open Hardware (technologie libre et gratuite).
Protei est un navire autonome Open Source a coque articulé developé pour explorer et nettoyer les océans. Les océans souffrent de marées noires, de pollution plastique, fuites radioactives, surpêche, mort des récifs coralliens, changement climatique, montée du niveau de la mer. Nous devons developer ensemble des technologies àtants la hauteur de ces défis.
Le hackathon est ouvert aux experts comme au débutants sera facilité par :
- Cesar HARADA (France-Japon): Inventeur du system Protei de bateau à coque articulé, Ancien Project Leader au MIT, TED Fellow.
- Gabriella LEVINE (USA) : Hardware Designer & Hacker, Top women in Tech (Adafruit), Master de ITP Tisch de New York.
- El Wali El Alaoui (Marocco): Fondateur de SaharaLabs / Tarfaya Hackerspace, premier hackerspace au Maroc.

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English
Come for a 1-day intense hands-on workshop we will build remote-controlled sailing robot based on arduino microcontroller, raspberry π, servo-motors, DC geared motors, and the available parts. We will build boat hulls, mast, rudders, sew sails, assemble electronics, write code, build circuits, test-sail our boats the water, and document it online. While doing so, we will also discuss some of the concepts of DIY & open hardware movement.
Protei is an Open Hardware Shape Shifting Sailing Robot to explore and clean the oceans. In order to address the scale and complexity of the issues in the ocean – Oil Spills, Plastic pollution, radioactivity, overfishing, Coral reef mapping, red tides and climate change- we must develop scalable, hence, Open technologies.
The hands-on workshop open to experts and beginners will be facilitated by :
- Cesar HARADA (France-Japan): Inventor of the Protei Shape-shifting system, Ex MIT Project leader, TED Fellow.
- Gabriella LEVINE (USA) : Hardware Designer & Hacker, Top women in Tech (Adafruit), Master from ITP Tisch New York
- El Wali El Alaoui (Marocco): Founder of SaharaLabs / Tarfaya Hackerspace, first hackerspace in Morocco.

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Nous cherchons un espaces avec ces critères suivants:
  1. pour 50 personnes, tables, chaises
  2. proximité de l’eau (lac, grande piscine, mer)
  3. electricité, Internet
  4. capacité de faire de la poussiere et travailler tard le soir

Vous connaissez un tel endroit?

Social Architecture proposal for TED Fellows retreat

I am proposing an event / architectural project for the TED Fellows Retreat in Whistler BC Canada this summer. That’s my proposition at this stage :) Go through the slides above to find out about what’s my idea of “Social Architecture”.


Build : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6O2S3HkoA


Visit : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPDFiZGKbHw

Read more : http://www.cesarharada.com/social-geometry-architecture-of-play/
Social Network growth programming : http://www.cesarharada.com/network-growth-programming/

20130129 Akihabara, Flying Tokyo

Flying Tokyo #11

2010313FlyingTokyo

http://www.rhizomatiks.com/event/flyingtokyo11/

In the very last minute Gabriella Levine and myself were lucky enough to be invited to present Protei at Flying Tokyo, a small but high-profile event for New Media art. The artists below : Zachary Lieberman, Memo Atken and Daito Manabe all spoke for about 30 minutes each. I found a video for each but they are all very prolific artists with impressive portfolios, so please check their websites for more.

 Memo Akten : memo.tv

Zack Lieberman : thesystemis.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Lieberman

Daito Manabe : daito.ws

At this event it was also moving to see Kenichi OKADA and Tomoaki YANAGISAWA, we’re all three fron the same department of Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, London UK, from different years.

Flying Tokyo, Media Art scene in Japan
Cesar HARADA, Kenichi OKADATomoaki YANAGISAWA

I am big fan of Kenichi Okada’s work, so I had to add one video of his work above :) (With Chris Woebken).

Akihabara

Protei in Akihabara, with Prof Alvaro Cassinelli

Next stop after Flying Tokyo was diving in Akihabara electronic-crowded shops with dear friend and Assistant Professor Alvaro Cassinelli of the University of Tokyo. There is no end in how much one can explore the maze of Akihabara, not that it is vast, but it is dense.


Tour by Ian of Dangerous Prototypes of Akihabara the Geek Mecca.

Womanbot, in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan

We met some very special women outside of Akihabara… Tokyo is crazy and it reminds us where Protei comes from : the intersection of art and science. We must come back soon !

20121129 Protei at TEDxVilaMada, Sao Paulo Brasil

November 29th of 2012, I will have the great honor of  presenting Protei in Sao Paolo Brasil, at the TEDxVilaMada on the theme “our planet water” (Nosso planeta Agua).

TEDx_Geral_FOTOS

 

http://www.tedxvilamada.com.br/events/tedxvilamada-nosso-planeta-agua

 

20121013 TEDxYoungstorget Oslo, Protei for the city 2.0


http://youtu.be/WB7h-RZ1voE
Archive (426mb) : http://cesarharada.com/download/20121110TedxYoungstorget.mp4

20121011TEDxYoungstorget

The City 2.0 page : http://www.thecity2.org/tedxcity2day
TED Page : http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/7090
Stream : https://new.livestream.com/tedx/TEDxYoungstorget 
Slideshow here : http://protei.org/download/20121013TEDxYoungstorget.key.zip 

I am  presenting Protei and Open-H2O at TEDxYoungstorget in Oslo.


VENUE AND DETAILS

Youngstorget square
Youngstorget
Oslo,
Norway
October 13th, 2012
8:00pm-9:30pm (GMT 2hrs)

Cesar Harada
Photo by Marie2403

Event Type :TEDxCity2.0

This event is invite-only. Tickets are available.
Ticketing policies vary by event.

Cesar Harada presente Protei a l’ENSCI Paris, 10 Octobre 2012

Cesar Harada at ENSCI, OUI Share network. 2012 10 10 Paris France

Facebook Event Page
2012 Octobre 10, a 19:00. ENSCI, 48 rue Saint Sabin, 75011, Metro Saint Sabin | Plan. Entree Gratuite.

C’est un grand honneur de venir presenter Protei a l’ENSCI, Les Ateliers Saint Sabin a Paris France.
En 2006 j’y ai passe plusieurs mois a construire un micro-trimaran, avant de partir a l’aventure camera au poing.
Je parlerai principalement de Protei, de l’histoire du projet, de la technologie, de la communaute,  et en general des implications de l’Open Source / Open Hardware pour des projets environementaux. Je parlerai beaucoup de strategie de design et des enjeux ecologiques et de societe. Je presenterai pendant 30 minutes, suivi de 30 minutes de questions.

L’evenement sera publie sur Facebook a travers le groupe OUISHARE.

Original file 3GB :  http://protei.org/download/20121010ENSCI.zip


http://vimeo.com/51847971
Edited by Christopher Santerre.

PS : pour ceux qui ne peuvent pas venir a TEDxParis le 6 Octobre, voila l’occasion d’avoir une presentation plus detaillee avec l’opportunites de poser des questions!
Poster : Crédits à Natalie http://holanat.com/

Unreasonable at Sea

https://vimeo.com/40384173
http://unreasonableatsea.com/the-route/

Gabriella Levine and Cesar Harada have been selected to participate to the Unreasonable at sea for the Protei project.
Please watch the video above and you will understand why we are excited to be part of this great adventure. For several months on the sea, we will be in the company of some of the world most forward thinking entrepreneurs that will be our mentors. This is an immense honor for me and for the Protei Project and we will document this journey as well as possible to share this incredible privilege with the greatest number. You can see our dates of the travels and where we will stop on my time line.


View Unreasonnable at Sea in a larger map


ARRIVE/DEPART DATE TIME
SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES
Depart January 9 17:00
HILO, HAWAII, UNITED STATES
Arrive January 15 08:00
Depart January 16 20:00
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
Arrive January 27 08:00
Depart January 28 23:00
KOBE, JAPAN
Arrive January 30 08:00
Depart January 31 20:00
SHANGHAI, CHINA
Arrive February 3 08:00
Depart February 4 20:00
HONG KONG, CHINA
Arrive February 7 08:00
Depart February 8 20:00
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM
Arrive February 12 08:00
Depart February 18 16:00
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE
Arrive February 20 08:00
Depart February 21 20:00
RANGOON, BURMA
Arrive February 25 08:00
Depart March 1 20:00
COCHIN, INDIA
Arrive March 6 08:00
Depart March 11 20:00
PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS
Arrive March 18 08:00
Depart March 18 20:00
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Arrive March 25 08:00
Depart March 30 20:00
TEMA (ACCRA), GHANA
Arrive April 6 08:00
Depart April 10 20:00
CASABLANCA, MOROCCO
Arrive April 18 08:00
Depart April 21 20:00
BARCELONA, SPAIN
Arrive April 25 08:00

Energy Animal

Energy_Animal, Open_Sailing, test in the sea

Working with Southampton University scientists on a promising “flexible marine energy converter”. Until march 2010 for EPSCR, NESTA, RCA, UK.

Social Geometry / Architecture of Play

Social Geometry Experiment 2008/11/13
Royal College of Arts, London, UK. About 7 people.


Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. About 10 people.

linear network
CCCB, Barcelona, Spain. About 35 people.

In the last years I have been exploring the relation between social networks and architecture. Or how we can embody social networks to understand them better, and why not generate a new type of architecture that would live through these changes and improve human interactions. I conducted these groups experiments

  • outside of the Royal College of Art, in Hyde Park, London UK.
  • Miller Galery at Carneggie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
  • CCCB Barcelona, Spain.
  • Workshop on “Environmental Governance,” Design & Environment, Goldsmiths University, London UK.
  • And I am looking for new groups of people interested in exploring this in different cultural contexts.

History

The fact is that the therm social Geometry has been in used since 1976 by the American Prof. of Social Science Donald Black in the book “The Behavior of Law”. A well written and concise wikipedia article presents the matter. Some attribute the origins of Social Geometry to the works of Georg Simmel , Emile Durkheim or Pierre Bourdieu. However D. Black approach seems to take into account clear variables that are “usable” more directly in the generation of physical social networks :
  • horizontal/morphological (the extent and frequency of interaction among participants)
  • vertical (the unequal distribution of resources)
  • corporate (the degree of organization, or of integration of individuals into organizations)
  • cultural (the amount and frequency of symbolic expressions)
  • and normative (the extent of previously being the target of social control)

Extending the legacy

Black refers to this multi-dimensional amalgam as “social space“. My personal interest is to temporarily dissolve these “social controllers” and let them re-emerge and reconfigure in large-scale choreographic experiments, in the form of ephemeral architecture, that I call “Architecture of Play.

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In the illustration above, you can see different stages to the generation of a social network :

  1. randomly moving disconnected individuals
  2. Linear network : one line connecting all actors.
  3. Branched Network
  4. Complex Network
  5. Voronoi Cells
  6. Arches
  7. Membranes

And as constructed model :

random  branched network complex network making of approximate voronoi cells voronoi cells -> arches voronoi cells -> arches-nb Arches, crystalizing social networks voronoi cells -> arches Architecture of play, arches in construction Architecture of play, arches in construction architecture of play in the garden Architecture of Play


Essentially we’re doing the same thing as the video above, Delauney triangulation : http://youtu.be/GUnuSYUXpwo


A simple set of instruction to generate complex behaviors and networks

instructions social geometry

These were the simple choreographic instructions I would give to the group. Updated instructions here.


Network Topography & Topologies (computer Sciences)

Network Topologies

The study of network topology recognises eight basic topologies:[5]

  • Point-to-point
  • Bus
  • Star
  • Ring or circular
  • Mesh
  • Tree
  • Hybrid
  • Daisy chain
But every single topology can be arranged in a way that tells a totally different story in the context of human architecture.
6 module structure, floating garden research

Complexity, Function & Play

Needless is to say that networks are not formed arbitrarily.
The exemple below is a neural network.  On the left : INPUTS, on the right : a single OUTPUT.

Neural Network

Where more complex networks might provide multiple answers simultaneously :

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And this is an network of human contributors to a wikipedia article : many to one.

Gloabl Warming WIki Network

This is the physical reality of our information network, the internet:

Cisco Internet map

And this how the internet sees itself, as data nodes:
Map of the Internet

In fact the best resource I found to be up to date about visualisation of complex network is visualcomplexity.com

Visual Complexity


Formation, growth, Reconfiguration, Resilience and Decay

Based on the 7 basic network topologies, I made some sketches of network growth. Really rough at this stage :


http://youtu.be/XVdQgVWpb2g

This is how I assigned the colours to different network topologies.

I designed 7 main ways of giving instructions to have people develop specified network topologies:

Physical Social Network Programming

 


Social network growth “ ”5 years of Linux kernel development in Git” – Teaser”


The Connected States of America, MIT SenseableCityLab : 
http://youtu.be/eFKZnbIAboI


TrashTrack, MIT Senseable City Lab: http://youtu.be/fvTZc5hWBNY


Non-human networks (visual inspiration)

Neural growth : http://youtu.be/PtHwlh9FBfU


Barabassi Lab


Controlability of Complex Networks, Mauro Martino
http://youtu.be/9-q2qpOJfkg
http://barabasilab.neu.edu/projects/controllability/
http://www.mamartino.com/

Self Organisation : http://youtu.be/it2nKg2hTAo

Ensembles growth : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIko0cdWtrU&feature=related

Network Growth animation : http://youtu.be/7HR3vxLO6Sw?t=58s


Characterisation of Node (people) & Connections (lines)

Characters
  • Male / Female
  • Young / Old
  • Big / small
  • White / black / other
  • variations in activity
  • variation in “attractiveness”
  • variation in character : shy / outgoing
Line
  • Long / short
  • Tensed / loose
  • stiff / elastic
  • White / coloured / bright
  • Immaterial / Material
  • Soft / hard
Environment 
Small to Big
  • bathroom {closed}
  • bedroom
  • dinner room / kitchen
  • living room
  • terrace {open}
  • street
  • avenue
  • square
  • forest
  • open field
  • mountain
  • sea
  • outer space
By combining a variety of characters, types of lines and environment, we can produce an infinity of narratives.

Stories

Intimacy -> global network

Poking in the internet

Young and Old

breaking Social Boundaries

French romance

Love Distant call

 


Psychology of Space


References