TeleAgriCulture Living Lab @ Schmiede 26
This year TeleAgriCulture returns to Schmiede to host a living lab that intersects fermenting ideas, cultures (and locally sourced food) with digital sensing and machine learning. We are back bigger and better, ready to hack and disrupt infrastructures of control over environmental data, sensing and networking architectures, and personal food practices, to co-create better ways of living, through more resilient food practices.
We begin this year with our Fermenting Ideas and Cultures workshop, exploring local ingredients, microbial processes, and food knowledge as both practical method and speculative tool. From there we move into our new and improved Microdosing AI AI AI Hackathon, where artists, makers, and coders can experiment with low energy, lightweight machine learning, environmental sensing, and networked systems through creative prototyping. New this year is our Living Lab Sandpit, a space for smiths to come together, develop ideas, and strategise future ecological projects to be connected into our growing global network of partner organisations. Finally, following on from the Sandpit those who are interested can explore opportunities for funding together through the Horizon New European Bauhaus Scheme.
Across the lab, we ask what it means to move beyond rhetoric, to really action other new ways of sensing, making, growing, fermenting, and living. Rather than getting stuck in the usual doom loops, we want to make the most of Schmiede as a place to think clearly, build playfully, and find ways back to enjoying nature, food, and community again.
TeleAgriCulture Living Lab @ Schmiede 26 is an initiative of Julian and the University of Southhampton
LabLeader: Julian Stadon and TBA depending on where development takes us.
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planned events:
20.9 Fermenting Ideas and Cultures Workshop (afternoon ~ 1400-1800 or similar)
21.9 Microdosing AI AI AI Hackathon 1100-1600 / ongoing throughout festival
22.9 or 23.9 Pump Priming Living Lab Sandpit
23.9 or 24.9 Funding Follow Up: Co-creating a Horizon New European Bauhaus Application