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March 2019
31.03
Sunday
Off.
♦ Saturday night/Sunday morning hackathon to build the first vertical garden prototype out of Badoit bottles - the Lab is easy to handle.
♦ Good chat with Carolyn Steel and other Hivers.
The pocket Lab has a new Logo.
30.03
Saturday
Redemption day.
♦ Quick update of what is going on here through a video - sent to New Zealand friends. Then, slow motion visit of Aix for basic requirements, such as acquiring some pink pants.
♦ Looking into Who Carolyn Steel is, and slowly educating myself with the challenge related to agriculture and urbanism combined.
And "Badoit" bottles seem to offer an ideal shape for a food tower.
29.03
Friday
Project presentation.
♦ Presentation time.
- (Morning) Final touch up of the slides and Practicing our presentation as a group. Amusing exercise : adjusting the speed and flow of the presentation to go smoothly from one speaker to the other.
- (Afternoon) Formal Presentation #01 : ticked off. pfff. That excruciatingly unnerving expericence, intense emotion which sources are unexplained by logic itself. Followed by :
- Re-presentation of the SAME topic, after David, the co-founder of Ici Marseille - therefore potentially the person most impacted by our work - shows up with a little delay. This time : no traumatic stress reaction at all : clarity of mind filling the brain, and keeping the audience awake. Life is good. So what the fuck in the first place? Amusing, confusing, entertaining for sure.
♦ Celebratory catch up, followed by celebratory party. We allegedly trash the very space we worked in, and wash away the profusion of nonsensical concepts to ground ourselves back into our humanity.
Best approach to wrap up the week.
rien
28.03
Thursday
Merging the building blocks together.
a quick catch up before we, this time, go each in a different way to expand on our specific approaches. No designated tasks. We will turn into night howls, putting together the slides for the presentation. Engineering brains meet Visual-thinker brains themselves meeting design-focus brains, and little sparks of friction-driven creativity both lead and blind us all consecutively.
♦ First step on the stage of the amphitheatre, for a reading out loud session, digging my heels into the ground.
The feeling of gathering many people's energy around a subject that fairly matters to us is a precious experience.
rien
27.03
Wednesday
Debrief and choosing a point of focus about Ici Marseille
♦ We all gather - Hayeon, Dian, Ihab, Oluwatobi and I - and let it flow. Expanding, then narrowing to identify the challenges to respond to. Again : Expanding, then narrowing it down, to select the most promising, realistic, accessible solution to it. And again : Expanding, then narrowing it down to shape the concept in finest details. Using different tools all at once, sometimes at the same time.
♦ Night owls for the first time at the Hive. The 20 of us shifting from gathering around to hiding into our headphones, giving shape to our ideas through our keyboards.
Lots of creative juice splashed around.
26.03
Tuesday
Visit of 3 sites in Marseille.
♦ Visite of Air Bel , Coco Velten and Ici Marseille with a "Living City" focus. I am attached to the IciMarseille Team. This Fab lab is ... spaciously scaled: largest makerspace in France.
♦ Late brainstorm to identify the areas requiring our attention : communication, diversity and design of the space.
Flee market with a GIANT antique shop.
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25.03
Monday
First day of Immersion.
♦ Deep dive with Raphaël Besson - Theme of week 1 : Living cities. "Similar to a coral reef : constantly adjusting its shape according to the lifeform inhabiting it" Amanda.
♦ Big evening talk follow up with Alice Cabaret about creative urban innovation agency.
At this speed I will need two notebooks per week.24.03
Sunday
Big day out, last one of the Onboarding period.
♦ Art and Architecture walk at the repurposed Chateau La Coste . Emotional encounter with an artwork from Andy Goldsworthy, my all-time favorite artist.
♦ Lavish Lunch on the grass, giggles and grins with Kido, Israel, Steph : insights in the political/economical/tribal situations of Namibia/Ethiopia. Contemporary gesticulations on the fake grass (at theCamp) with Eleni.
And the gym room has on-demand pre-recorded hip-hop class. Dope.23.03
Saturday
Big day out, visiting the Calanques de Marseillle.
♦ A gigantic walk following the seacliffs. Swim, chat and reflect with the Hive team - both hivers and coaches (I still don't know who does what?!?).
♦ Smashing a dinner together for the twenty of us in the upstairs kitchen. Dian : a masterchef.22.03
Friday
At Thecamp, second day of Onboarding .
♦ We test out the "emotion tree" : a facial recognition system connected to visual feedback (abstract shape in a screen). No obvious ENOUGH changes between "emotion"= missed the point.
♦ Evening Workshop : the spiral of life (OMG):
Step A: planning: Draw a spiral. It represents the timeline of your life. Add events (cross) and people (circle) which influenced it. Add names.
Step B/sharing: tell others about it.
Step C/discuss it: open conversation.21.03
Thursday
At theCamp, day 1.
! - day 1 - !
♦ The place is ridiculously beautiful. Minimalist. Attention to details. Many ideas in the back of my mind seems to have been successfuly implemented here - water collection etc. Getting a little emotional.
♦ Dinner with everyone, and evening workshop : 1/2 hour "silent" chat with Kido, using pens and paper only.
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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