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April 2019
30.04
Tuesday
♦ Getting together with Dorota, Bidisha, Steph and Amanda, and begin to lay out the foundation of the project. I realise much later on that we are all more or less makers.
29.04
Monday
Bcn - Aix On the bus : Radiolab highjacked brain
♦ Radiolab podcast day, about irish voting system called STV system, a step up compared to first choice-only voting system. Also hear about WW2 Japanese terror technique - using the jet stream and hydrogen ballons to send bombs across the pacific- that never delivered but might have left behind 600 bombs on american land. Also about law passed to alllow people/company to apologize, and brain loop when loosing short-term memory.
27.04
Saturday
Party
♦ Friend Time, Party Time.
26.04
Friday
First approach
♦ Exposition of Problematic selected and perspectives selected for further exploration, one of them being "empathy for non-human entities". with Bidisha, Dorota, Amanda and Stefanie.
My initial idea about food is discarded. It is in no one's mind at the Hive, and considering, their background it is understandable. The mismatch between this theme and the profiles is obvious. I feel very much on my own. Kido, with a background in architecture was a potential ally but food is not his cup of tea. Florian offered his help and perhaps I should just take it but I wish to be in a group where we all lead - beyond our specific skillset, we are all designing the solution. I wish to explore further with what the others have in mind, see how this "un-process" unfolds.
♦ Applied for Unleash and order items (while on the bus to Barcelona) for personal aquaponic project.
25.04
Thursday
Ideas Development
♦ Continuation of collective Mindmap and methodology to define groups and subjects. I am utterly confused about it. It is all over the show. I feel it is improvised, and for something that I judge so key to the development of our projects, I am taken aback. Or maybe they have some special approaches to it?
♦ Presentation of many Camp project : Drone Valley, Diams, Solarcamp, la Demoiselle. I have enough of the bla bla, and skip some.
♦ At night, Climb 3 pitches, start ups about food and mobility. Then late brainstorming to come up with our own projects and team.
24.04
Wednesday
Fellows' Day
♦ Fellows like Jonathan Minchin come to the lab to meet us up and discuss about our first aproach.
♦ Presentation of the baseline-project put together last night.
rien
23.04
Tuesday
Kicking off idea development and team creation
♦ Mind mapping our personal interest. I am curious about where the methodology will lead us as a group. So far it is very eerie.
♦ Meet up with Climb 3 start-ups.
22.04
Monday
Day off.
♦ Carried-on with the Aquaponic project a bit more.
♦ Admin more - New Zealand things to do.
♦ relaxed, read.
21.04
Sunday
Day off.
♦ Carried-on with the Aquaponic project a bit.
♦ relaxed
20.04
Productive Saturday
Now everybody's gone, let's get started
♦ Gathering all material needed to expand the hydroponic setup;
♦ Watching a doco about climate change while also...
♦ Putting together a presentation about the why behind this hydroponic system.
♦ Discovered an illegal dump nearby thecamp. Climbed the big pinnacle finally.
♦ Also digging into the Concept behind a food production facility called ALOHAS Eco-centre.
19.04
Friday
Connecting the dots
♦ disussions after our presentations yesterday. Early end of the week before the long weekend.
18.04
Thursday
What do we wanna do?
♦ Subject presentation. I throw the "food" focus out there as an obivous valuable issue to work on. In 5 min - such a short time to cover the topic. I try to cram too much in my slides and mess it up a bit, but consider the subject to be so universal that others will add up to it. But nope. Other subjects such as education gather a bigger crowd. Basically no one apart from myself has a focus on food. Ooochy. Overall, many are very flexible, and don't know yet what they don't want to work on.
Would a single subject have created a stronger connection amongst Hivers? Is choice a good thing? Lets wait and see.
rien
17.04
Wednesday
Presentation of the Hive Ecosystem
♦ So many projects to work on, helping out during 25% of our time. I raise my hands for the veggie garden, the bar of Tomorrow and designing an extra living space in a villa behind thecamp.
♦ The solar-powered mini-hydro system moves to the greenhouse, thanks to Pierre.
16.04
Tuesday
Sustainability projects and VR at the Hive
♦ Presentations of these two subjects and prep/researches for our own focus presentation.
15.04
Monday
Beginning of the ideation phase
♦ All week long we will research and prepare our presentation for the end of the week - the objective is to come up with a subject rather than a project to find matches.
14.04
Sunday
Testing the solar kit
♦ Cute me carrying around a cart with the kit solar/plants, finding some sunny spot with little wind and testing out the voltage throughout the day.
♦ Creating a bracelet for the NFC chip - now my pass is on my wrist at all times.
♦ Listening to/testing of Myroslava's latest sound piece at the amphitheatre.
13.04
Saturday
Setting up the solar kit
♦ Quick visit of Notre Dame de la Garde, Church in Marseille.
♦ Thanks to David who provided me with some badass cables for the kit, I wire it all (solar panel/charge controller/battery) and figure out a way to turn 12v into 5v with what is at thecamp.
♦ Chat with Dongmei/Blue about the importance of communicating a concept in an emotionally impactful way.
12.04
Friday
Presentation
♦ Presentation of the main checkpoints for the next 5 months. It seems very linear. With that kind of structure, better not fuck up the very first steps, otherwise the rest will go down to shiiiit.
♦ Our turn to present our concept (learning through a design thinking mindset with a superhero twist on it) at the amphitheatre with Dauphine Students - quite fun frankly.
Judith is disappointed by the lack of energy we put into it, and rightly so. We know these presentations will go nowhere, so why bother? Ihab expose this perspective blatantly, hoping on stage for a 10 seconds talk simply asking for the next Monday/Tuesday to make something happen - rather than pitching something.
♦ Concert for the opening of Coco Velten.
rien
11.04
Thursday
Clutter day
♦ Finishing the brainstorming/presentation interrupted by:
- Bee Buzz : Zito, Ihab and Myroslava introducing themthelves;
- Cross Presentation of our projects between groups.
10.04
Wednesday
Back into childhood
♦ At several social centre ran by Synergie family , we take the role of a child, then the role of a simple observer.
♦ Brainstorm about the pros and cons of what we witnessed, and finding the backbone of our development for the next two days.
09.04
Tuesday
Hosting the show
♦ Welcoming students from "l'ecole de la deuxieme chance" Questions, small workshop about our expectation from education in the next ten years. I wish we could have been warned about their venue before so as to plan something and provide them with takeaways. It feels like a lot of talking and listening again and teenagers have an incredible ability to look straight at people while zoning out thinking about more exciting things. There was space for more active learning right there - for us also.
♦ Ordering the test kit for freshwater.
08.04
Monday
Brainstorm-ed
♦ Watching the documentary"une idee folle" in presence of the documentary maker Judith.
♦ Brainstorming about education : personal developement, appreciation of collaborative living or cultural conditioning?
07.04
Sunday
Chill
♦ Relax.
♦ Testing the "broken" 3d printer to turn it into a ceramic printer.
♦ Running another 3d printer to make an everyday object : a bookmark.
♦ More visit of the wood with Mimi/Zito, reading, food.
06.04
Saturday
Prep
♦ Ordering a solar panel/battery/charge controller to make the hydroponic system self sufficient.
♦ reading, stretching, chatting, admin for August trip.
05.04
Friday
Overdose of speeches at thecamp
♦ Morning meetup to finish our prep, a little hurried - I feel the team of this week has not had the chance to connect properly.
♦ Intro of the sustainable approach of the camp by Nolwen and Benoit. Then Emmanuel Perrodin - historian, chef - , Tatiana and Thomas de Williencourt - fundraising power couple -, Luc Falcot - the perfect moustache and its traditional way to goat around - , Alain Vigier - master of common sense, low tech and good idea -, and Gwen Le Chat - marketing orchestrator and dots connector. Overdose of words and concepts. One group goes overtime, our prep goes through the window to ensure funding workshop happens - to my great pleasure actually.
♦ Lunch with Nolwen about the educational program focused on food. There is something good going on there, but I wonder why the focus is on creating an app for it. Is that because the excitment for Tech brings funding?
♦ Addition of a peristaltic water pump to the hydroponic system, with a relay/arduino combo to control the watering cycle.
Nap, then Rhum. Endless chat with Mimi and Mona.
04.04
Thursday
Visit of Arles
♦ Inspiring visit of Luma, not because of the fancy architectural contemporary art museum erected there but because of the visit of the workshop by Mariannne. Tech projects with a social impact using local resources (material and human) valorising the local ecosystem. Intelligent, minimalist use of tech. Material researches - algae into 3d printing filament, merino wool for fabric, reeds for weaving, mussel shells for strong material - the list goes on.
♦ Prior to that, a quick stop at La chassagnette, restaurant which uses its own veggie garden (3/4 hectares) to feed its customer. High level of gastronomic experience. The kitchen is also equipped to use less resources (electricity instead of gas, one motor for many fridges, solar panel for outdoor lighting) and a very genuine, inspiring human behind the pots and pans leading the show.
Back at thecamp, "Creative Connections" is on - big event, but still at intimate scale somehow. A warm human experience regardless of a freezing cold wind hitting our faces.
rien
03.04
Wednesday
Admin work
♦ Skipping a vegan cooking workshop to get basic obligations sorted. Then prepping a "challenge" of our Friday guests : About fundraising. A bit off topic. I can feel my focus shifting away from the whiteboard, from the brainstorming sesssion, still digesting lunch and the last two days' information. Willing to connect the dots and consolidate this knowledge. Cannot stop thinking about alternative ownership models and their possible impacts.
02.04
Tuesday
Back in Marseille
♦ Visit of Le talus, urban farm. Plenty of good ideas. I make a video for the peeps back in new zealand. Always impressed to see people actually paying to come give some sweat as they work the land.
♦ A couple of hours spent in the graffiti district of Marseille,then we visit the Super Cafoutch, where the supermarket is owned by a co-op - and that means food is selected for its goodness and sold without adding an extra margin to it. Very much needed.
We get a fix of culture with Jodorowsky's Dune documentary- strongly recommend it!
rien
01.04
Monday
Intro to the Food Week
♦ Hold on : We are not acting upon what we designed last week? Wow, that is not very productive. Was our slides just for show? I don't know what is the long-term plan, so I will follow the flow for now.
♦ Also, remember the water collection system at Thecamp, using the canopy? Turns out it goes directly to a basin retention to be treated and released - but not used on-site to water the surrounding, hence the fake grass by the basketball field. Well that's curious.
♦ Moving on : Pierre Hivernat introduces us to the topic, outlining some shocking - but well-known figures about food, environment, etc. I discover most of India is vegetarian (of course it is) - and that is pretty awesome.
♦ We discuss between each other about our various - international - experiences, then Carolyn Steel takes the mic to cover pretty much the same points as in 2009 on the TED stage.
Seems like a bit of animal-protein is actually better than a completely vegan world.
Quick intro to
the Hive and its Hivers
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A 6-month residency program at TheCamp, France. Hosting 20 artists and creators from all over the world. A collaborative expedition to explore and hack the future, developing concrete solutions applied to universal issues. Energy, oceans, mobility, education, quality of life…
Just like previous seasons, Hive #03 is full of interdisciplinary backgrounds: choreographer, machine-learning expert, engineer, creative director, photographer, film-maker, coder, maker, sound artist, architect, service designer, UX designer, illustrator, digital artist…
Baptiste initially worked as a 3D animator and Lead Artist in the video game industry, widening his technical skill set and coordinating the effort of small creative teams.
Baptiste regularly stepped back from his digital trade, working as a craftsperson, rock climbing instructor, and studying therapeutic massage, sustainable horticulture and more recently digital fabrication.
His taste for the outdoors led him to settle in New Zealand and dedicate his time to the creation of a community lab focused on local fabrication, urban food production and civic engagement.
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