November and December will be spent at the Berlin-based Ständige Vertretung residency space at the ZK/U. This residency and fellowship is dedicated to actors of the Berlin Freiscene and fosters projects looking to influence the social fabric of the city. Come visit us in the flying parasite!
Tonight, Gilly Karjesvky will present at the Hacking Urban Furniture conference, which closes a two year project and idea competition at the ZK/U Berlin. Here is the text of her presentation: Creative commons was a solution to a problem of regulation. In the vast public space of the internet, its…
Gilly and Sebastian presented the Playful Commons approach in a workshop on design, regulatory, and social impact issues of urban play hosted by Jussi Holopainen of RMIT Europe in Barcelona. In the context of emerging smart cities, the questions posed by Playful Commons become more urgent: how can digital technologies…
During a workshop hosted by medienwerk.nrw at PACT Zollverein, participants experimented with a high speed permission process and playful prototyping of new licenses for spaces. More information: http://www.medienwerk-nrw.de/news/workshop-sondernutzung-als-normalfall-bessere-spielregeln-f-r-kreativit-t-urbanen-r-umen
Steward Sebastian Quack gave a talk on the current status and thinking around the Playful Commons project at Now Play This Festival in London, during an evening event on Cities and Play with Laura Kriefman (Mass Crane Dance) and Matt Adams (Blast Theory). Video of the talk to come.
We’re thrilled to launch a long-term Playful Commons license in an urban space – Adelaide Plaza aka Skibby’s Castle Plaza in the heart of Cork, Ireland. During the Quarter Block Party festival, Sebastian will lead a workshop exploring the possibilities covered by the new license and unveil the signage in…
Sebastian is looking forward to run a workshop for kids and participate in this conference about Childhood and Public Space, organized by Goethe Institut Barcelona and Urbanitas Berlin Barcelona.
In June, Playful Commons will take part in a panel discussion at the Make City festival centre. We will join keynote Prof. Fran Tonkiss (UK) and moderator Elke Krasny (AU) together with great speakers such as Aristide Antonas (GR), Elma van Boxel, Kristian Koreman (NL), Maria Muñoz (ES), and Julia Kloiber (DE). Should be super challenging!…
On Sunday, May 31, Sebastian will be presenting Playful Commons at w00t Play Festival in Copenhagen and participating in a panel on The State of Play. They say the panel will be held “Socrates style” on a public playground.
Join PC stewards Gilly Karjevsky and Sebastian Quack as they introduce the project in the 2015 edition of Re:Publica, Europe‘s largest conference on Internet and Society May 7th, 13:00, at the station, Kreuzberg. Here’s the video from the talk: