#opencoop

[opencoop]

week 135

Our garden is slowly coming to life since we have the lovely people from Cityplot transforming our frontyard into an urban farm. Daryl has been helping them with the design and actual transformation of the garden. Work is still in progress, pictures here..

Arne Hendriks

Join him this week for the Starvation Experiment at Mediamatic and help him  and others to sublimate their hunger into XL snack mandalas, fluffy foods, salty zen gardens, non-food drawings, edible ceramics, wooden kitchenware and yes, even into lip balm.

Kees Kraakman

I bought a new roaster, a bigger one but from the same dutch quality brand 'Giesen'. Last week it arrived and now, with two roasters I am even better equiped for trainings and supplying my wholesale customers. I also installed a lot of extra temperature probes for my ongoing research in coffee roasting techniques. And for all you tea lovers out there, I hired Ieme for helping me with the air ventilation pipes which will reduce the noise and smell inside the Coöp.  Step by step my coffee lab is getting into shape. Now I only want a density measure system, color meter, sample roaster, more tasting tables, artificial daylight troughout my roastery, sample storage kast, two new grinders and a new espresso machine. Slowly but sure I am working towards the best trainingslab in The Netherlands!

Topika

Last week I divided my time between design iterations for the News Console branding, product strategy for the NMM project and design iterations for a prototype of the Skinvision online platform.

On Friday I gave a quick presentation about the Open-Tv project at the Bits of Freedom offices with Vincent and Catalina.

The project is also on view in the 20th Century exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum, St. Luciënsteeg 27, Amsterdam.

Bite-Me

Food:COOP:Noord is a cooperative where members order local sustainable groceries together to create a community with better food at fair prices. Through our software you can order vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, cheese and so on and pick it up on Wednesdays 16.30-18.30 at the Open Coop.

Everything is packed and organized by the members, incl. you, so the FoodCOOP is for everyone who likes to actively participate in getting better food.

You can become a member at https://order.foodcoop.nl/open-adam-noord/f/login/signup

DUS

During his visit to the Rijksmuseum, the 3D Print Canal House was presented to U.S. president Obama by Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard van der Laan, alongside Prime Minister Rutte and Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes. 

They also designed a special ‘kids’ version of the 3D Print Canal House that consist of no less than 219 unique Bricks. Eleven 3D Hubs communities joined forces to 3D print the entire miniature canal house, which stands over five feet tall! 

Partizan Public

http://www.4en5meiamsterdam.nl/55756/nl/amsterdams-4-en-5-mei-programma-2014-druk-bezocht

Marije van Woerden One of her International Film Festival Rotterdam photos is used by the Groene Amsterdammer n an article. They made a one time (printed) edition called 'De Groene Rotterdammer' in cooperation with the Filmfestival.

http://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-tweede-renaissance-zal-in-europa-plaatsvinden

dmau - journeyed through Amsterdam and made a photographic essay tracing what remains of the Aldo van Eyck playgrounds. 

Sujata has spent the last month on her artist’s residency at the Waag Society, awarded by ICT Art Connect (EU funded) to see what art can reveal about opaque technologies. Her project is about data in healthcare, seen from a rather different perspective than in her day job (as analyst in the migration of AMC & VUmc data from an old to a new EHR). So she is occupied with health records not only in her waking but also in her dream state. The essence of the work is augmenting the electronic health record to really be about the person and their health, instead of only being a protocol- and process-driven picture of a patient and their illnesses. 

[tiptaptopika]

week 58

It still feels like I am leaving my comfort zone with writing weekenotes, nevertheless, similar to the activities that come with my new new role as a chairman of the Open Coop, I really enjoy this change. 

We are facing a few challenges with developing the Open Coop and cultivating the organisation. Being a open bottom up organisation it might come across almost effortless how we generate great initiatives. Generally  we can claim that there are more group benefits than there are damaging events. We are planning a group workshop in the middle of February and I will develop the program for the day. My aim is to have everybody in the group involved in finding pragmatic ways of working and create momentum for the execution of our cooperative plans and initiatives. More on this in a later note.

On Friday we travelled 3 hours from Amsterdam by car since the next Sandberg@Mediafonds Masterclass meeting was located at a farm in Groningen. The program organisers spoiled us with excellent food, a long hike along the coastline and inspiring lectures and discussions.

We heard about the making-of and the phases of several Subjective Atlas projects by Annelies de Vet. Her publications are anthropological design studies about perceived soft cultural boundaries and manifestations. 

Bregtje van der Haak made the point that journalism is a complex cultural practice and gave a lecture about state of the art documentary making. Martijn de Waal approached the subject of non-linear journalism from the perspective of an integrated platform. 

After returning to Amsterdam in the evening the weekend started with a spectacular Eddie's party. Hard to explain why this kind of party is so much fun, make sure you are there next time and don't plan too much work for the Monday morning after.

[jeroenapers]

De OpenCoop in Amsterdam Noord is een initiatief van Dus architects, Partizan Publik en Eddie the Eagle museum. Een broedplaats die verder gaat dan af en toe van elkaar gebruik maken, maar ook altijd echt samen projecten aanpakken & initiëren. Mooie spannende projecten staan in het verschiet.

(by drsjoef)