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July 2019
31.07
Wednesday
Co-living
♦ We finish the editing of the slides of and print out the document for the Co-Living project. Here is also the manifesto of thecamp.
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30.07
Tuesday
Co-living and "Charette"
♦ I carry on on the Plasticity project, then attend the presentation of the prototype phase 2.
29.07
Monday
Co-living and "Charette"
♦ I finish the last drawing for the co-living slide.
♦ Record myself again for the Hiver presentation - better English but my tone is ... patronising. And stressing the words right would be un-French of me...
♦ And I help out with the Plasticity Project.
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... and a new week begins ...
28.07
Sunday
Weekend
♦ ...and recovery.
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27.07
Saturday
Weekend
♦ "Cremaillere" at Hivers #1 place...
26.07
Friday
Research and recovery
♦ Tiphaine asked what project would be my personal giveaway for the Hive. So I research whether the project 2 of telenatura would the the winner, researching material, and who would be interested in such service - Aix? Auckland? Frankly out of the frame that Telenatura set up, these project have lost their appeal.
♦ I also look up for what I will do after the Hive more precisely. Environmental engineering? Circular Economy? System thinking? Studies? Internship?
25.07
Tursday
Ecosystem Day
♦ Finishing the slides, adding the design and basic functionalities of the app...
...And celebrating the holidays at night. First party.
24.07
Wednesday
Bouncing from one group to the other
♦ I discuss prototyping with the Plasticity and Yobl teams. How to make prototypes for these large-scales installation, or for a developing concept? Here is the challenge.
23.07
Tuesday
Marketing tutoring
♦ I follow AC through the morning to get my head around marketing, or biz dev - or whatever you call the mental gymnastic of finding out the target of a product/service.
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22.07
Monday
Marketing check-in
♦ Visit of AC Coppens, providing us with the 101 of marketing - very valuable.
♦ Quick ckeck in to get to see a physio, for the shoulder, then...
♦ ...shooting of the video presentation as a hiver. Too serious to my taste but it needs to be done and all silliness I can think of would take too much prep. So Francesco and I we smash it.
♦ I announce to the team that I will turn into a guns-for-hire maker/facilitator, floating between project - I won't be part of the telenatura ideation phase. Better use of my skillset, also more freedom. Key at this stage. This is a new trajectory in my Hive experience. Up to me to get the best out of it.
21.07
Sunday
Big break day 2
♦ I hide in the room watching "explained", a docu serie explaining stuff such as music, wage gap between gender and more. Lots of sleepy time.
20.07
Saturday
Big break day 1
♦ I hide in the room watching "a stange rock", a docu serie about Earth, Astronauts, and diatoms, generating about 20 percent of the oxygen produced on the planet each year. Lots of sleepy time.
19.07
Friday
Clean up
♦ The ZeroOne team left early. I do a quick clean up of the set up, varnish the table for permanent set up and crash early.
♦ I send both signs for the pocket lab to New Zealand. Good bye my pretties.
♦ Meetup with Pierre Cattan - very inspiring. However we do not have the time to discuss project #02 of telenatura. And clearly we won't have the chance to during the hive.
♦ This week was awesome and I am dead flat, ready for a very necessary weekend, feeding my introverted side with some lonely time.
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18.07
Thursday
Blooming
♦ Audrey sets up her colorful installation and Blue finishes designing her olfactive experience. Morgane leaves before the evening and won t see the result at night - At night, laying down in the space, it seems I am in a lavender field. At sunset, the view is stunnig. I miss the screen projection from Yesung (sic) and will have to wait for their video. I build a table and set up a few lights.
♦ The creation of other teams are really good. I am stoked.
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17.07
Wednesday
Setup
♦ we rip off the green tiles to create a lounge space in the middle of the rooftop garden; materials will arrive late and not plentiful, so we turn the working space into a chillout space requiring no white board and set up the cosiest bean bags. Elodie leaves in the afternoon.
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16.07
Tuesday
Design
♦ Walking around the camp we decide to set up on a rooftop garden, an indoor outdoor space - thanks to Elodie. We evoke, amongst many other ideas, the design of a transparent white board, with a waterfall on the other side, sliding along the plexiglass. A working space where each furniture dedicated to work is re-designed according to the theme. Post it board allows post it to be re-used. And more. Then settle on a night time experience, using the expertise of Yesung in art installation. Audrey has joined the team and wants to add an interactive experience..
♦ At night I finish the large scale parabole.
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15.07
Monday
Welcome to the Hackathon
♦ We meet the zeroOne team and start defining our team and project : a outdoor space that is located indoor. Morgane, from Air France, kicks off the project, I follow, then Blue joins, Then Yesung also joins, and we will also have Audrey and Elodie, designer formely from Steelcase / Chateaufort joining the team too. We roughly define the theme and basic approach of the hack.
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14.07
Sunday
Prototyping telenatura project#02 - day 2
♦ I try another pengaton. And starts thinking about the material used for this project. It has to be sustainable. I contact the Hivers who worked on a material made out of sea shells.
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13.07
Saturday
Prototyping telenatura project#02 - day 1
♦ I look for a shape of tile that can cover a surface without looking too perfect - no equilateral triangles, hexagons or square. I discover some fanstastic pentagone and hexagons of all shapes that I cut and test out.
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12.07
Friday
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11.07
Thursday
long ecosystem day ahead
♦ Going through the cleaning up of the storyboard, one page at a time.
♦ Laser Engraving / cutting the sign for the living wall - the second one to head to NZ soon.
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10.07
Wednesday
catch up - day 3
♦ I go visit the library in Aix where we might get some space to exhibit.
♦ Meetup with the telenatura team, discussing about storytelling. I had missed a meeting where Amanda has started writing a script. So did I, the tones differ vastely. We define final impact : is signing a petition actually the best option possible? well, possibly.
♦ Final climbers pitch - it has been sharpened, but it is still a skill to delier a speech neatly. Jesus is excellent, honest and precise, regardless of the technological complexity of the subject.
rien
09.07
Tuesday
catch up - day 2
♦ Conversation with Sylvia to discuss how the Hive is going. Amongst other point I mention the very beginning of the ideation process - where the whole group splits and projects are defined - must be better facilitated. It is important to help all hivers build a long-term vision, then define their hive project accordingly.
♦ The telenatura team meets, but we get not much out of it. I am dead keen on prototyping a new version of the installation (scripted below). The team momentum is not there and I won't make the mistake again to go on prototyping on my own - it divides the team.
rien
08.07
Monday
catch up
♦ Meet up with Carl and Tom online - Tom is now part of the board of trustees! Conversation about long term thinking for New Zealand.
♦ Presentation of the prototype - 3 hours of presentation and Q and A. One of our expert called Yoda reminds all of us that we are supposed to work on social impact, at least. That is a meaningful feedback, a subtle way to say " WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, PEOPLE ?!?".
♦ People really like the "ambient" sound of telenatura, which is lovely to hear but actually not the effect expected. It is not strong enough as a message by itself.
07.07
Sunday
Directional speaker - part 2
♦ I laser cut a tiny directional speaker for the sake of prototyping day, triggering people's imagination - including ours. The result is vaguely directional. Perhaps in this case, size matters.
rien
06.07
Saturday
Directional speaker - part 1
♦ I get started building a parabole to make a directional speaker, but run out of clay, so I write a mail to ask for access to a car and/or to a container at Ici Marseille to work on real, large-scale prototpe. amongst many things, I would like access to a CNC machine - it s really missing.
♦ I will hear a couple of days later that there are no container available and using machines at Ici Marseille costs extra. Why did they select someone with my profile for? I am all infrastructure and system focus, and I spend my time on filling whiteboard with scribbles, slides with keywords and tables with clayballs. Are they testing my resistance to frustration or what?
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05.07
Friday
Prototyping day
♦ We set up the mic outside - raising question about privacy since we can only set it up where our rooms are, so people's footsteps are streamed to the cloud. We will only switch it on during working hours. Amanda and Dorota cast a rock and look after the interface. Then pool party for Julieta's birthday.
♦ We also briefly discuss about the whole experience of the project, made out of three parts : discover, inspire, empower.
rien
04.07
Thursday
Ecosystem day
♦ I digitalise the storyboard, Mimi creates and starts the slide, Kido works on 3d renders. Mimi and I also draft the functionality of the app.
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03.07
Wednesday
Prototyping the rock
♦ we discussed about the expeerience and purpose of this big rock.
♦ Make a clay version of a big rock - which is judged too big and complex, then
♦ A small "table" version of it is made, more appropriate.
♦ We finally cast a real stone so that we can make a plaster version of it over the next few days.
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02.07
Tuesday
Prototyping and discussion with Antoine, ex-head of com
♦ The aquaponic proto V2 is now fully dismounted - RIP, see you under a new form soon.
♦ The chat with Antoine led to two questions : what is the message and how do you strenghten it?
♦ This led to a conversation in the afternoon where we brainstormed how to connect project 01 (nature through sound) with 02 (showcase of green solution), and also talked about a potential 03 : positive information to be passed on.
♦ Prisca sends me the most incredible links about self-assembled materials and biomimetics.
01.07
Monday
Prototyping and discussion with Tim
♦ Meeting with Tim Papandreou and his partner, discussing about pitching, Google working method, urbanism and more. Then at night, chat about San Francisco and the increasing number of homeless people there.
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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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