Sources workshop

The workshop is designed for the Public Library of Trikala in Greece around the topic of use of sources in the media lab of the library. Its designed on a tripple basis= collaboration, appropriation and creative use of information.

It is structured in 3 sections. Free culture, remix&appropriation, and tools, sources and creativity in the media lab.

Bibliography= Lessig, Lewis, Kleiner, Stallman, Bauwens, Benjamin, Latour.

Activities= mapping trajectories, audiovisual narration with found footage, collaborative online narration with found footage, online tools and media lab equipment, livestreaming, design simple HTML page to embed live streaming/embed in personal or libraries blog.

Learning outcomes= introduction in the discussion around free culture, understanding of types of licences and new discussions around intellectual property, awareness of trajectories of works of art, introduction and basic understanding or remix culture, introduction to online tools, ability to design a (collaborative) audiovisual narration in the media lab, ability to design self educational projects in the media lab.

• The free culture thematic is inspired from the Free Culture workshop in Worm by David and Eleanor.
  • The remix and appropriation thematic is inspired by Annet's classes on Testing the shelf life.