HACK THE CITY: Science Gallery Trinity College Call for proposals

HACK THE CITY

22:06:12 – 07:09:12

Call for Propo­sals

Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland is seeking propo­sals for an upco­ming major exhi­bi­tion and festi­val HACK THE CITY

Call Opens: Monday 5 Decem­ber

Call Closes: Friday 20 Janu­ary

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 22 June 2012 – 07 Septem­ber 2012

Festi­val dates: 11–15 July 2012

Calling all hackers, makers, doers, data nerds, hobbyists, artists, citi­zen scien­tists, tech geeks, acti­vists, edgy engi­ne­ers and DIY urban plan­ners…

Science Gallery is seeking propo­sals for its 2012 flags­hip exhi­bi­tion HACK THE CITY laun­ching in June 2012. HACK THE CITY is cura­ted by Teresa Dillon – Lead Cura­tor/Rese­ar­cher & artist, Linda Doyle – Direc­tor of CTVR, Josh Klein – TED Spea­ker and author of Hacking Work, Martin Kelly – IBM Venture Capi­tal Group and Michael John Gorman – Direc­tor of Science Gallery. 

Currently more than half of the world’s popu­la­tion lives in towns and cities. This trend is expec­ted to conti­nue. Between 2025–2030 of the appro­xi­mate 8 billion people who will live in the world 5 billion will live in cities. Yet the majo­rity of our city infras­truc­tu­res are based on inhe­ri­ted histo­ri­cal layouts and systems.

Science Gallery’s 2012 flags­hip exhi­bi­tion and festi­val HACK THE CITY will rethink our cities from the ground up through the spirit and philo­sophy of the hacker ethos – to bend, mash-up, tweak and canni­ba­lise our city systems, to create possi­bi­li­ties, illus­trate visi­o­nary thin­king and demons­trate real-world exam­ples for sustai­na­ble urban futu­res. It will capi­ta­lize on Dublin city’s history, legacy, popu­la­tion and infras­truc­ture, trans­for­ming the city itself into a nimble “play­ground” and live urban hack lab.

The exhi­bi­tion and events will explore hacking for good – the repur­po­sing of useful resour­ces, the inno­va­tors who custo­mise exis­ting tools for new uses and who purpo­se­fully challenge exis­ting hierar­chies. What crea­tive ways can we rele­ase untap­ped resour­ces, harnes­sing what maybe consi­de­red as by-products or waste, to create alter­na­tive systems for public good?

HACK THE CITY is Science Gallery’s major inter­na­ti­o­nal exhi­bi­tion and festi­val for 2012 and a flags­hip programme of Dublin City of Science. We are inter­es­ted in recei­ving propo­sals for expe­ri­ments, exhi­bits and events, which go beyond Science Gallery in to the city of Dublin and even connect multi­ple cities globally. Poten­tial venue part­ners­hips include The Ark, Temple Bar, Dublin and inter­na­ti­o­nal part­ners­hips with ZER01 in San Jose, Cali­for­nia.

Working with our inter­na­ti­o­nal part­ners and local coun­cils we will be crea­ting city zones, which will test poten­tial new tech­no­lo­gies, crea­ting situ­a­ti­ons for energy visu­a­li­za­tion, play, social networ­king and commu­ni­ca­ti­ons.

As a centre­pi­ece in Dublin’s tenure as Euro­pean City of Science 2012, we are espe­ci­ally inter­es­ted in submis­si­ons which utilise Dublin’s posi­tion, geography and demo­grap­hic – as the capi­tal of a small island, on the perip­hery of Europe, strug­gling to reco­ver from a post-econo­mic boom and the Euro­pean home for a number of key multi­na­ti­o­nal tech compa­nies (IBM, Google, Face­book), inno­va­tors and entre­pre­neurs. Drawing on this vibrant commu­nity we encou­rage novel appro­a­ches to social and commer­cial ideas, which can be pilo­ted and prototy­ped during HACK THE CITY.

The exhi­bi­tion will include exis­ting and propo­sed works, inno­va­ti­ons and inven­ti­ons around the theme of HACK THE CITY. The exhi­bi­tion will extend beyond the gallery through works­hops, labs, events and off-site projects with Science Gallery beco­ming a hub connec­ting diffe­rence city zones to mobile and online worlds.

Along­side artworks, desig­ned objects and docu­men­tary arte­facts, HACK THE CITY will encou­rage thin­king diffe­rently about how we set up new busi­ness products and servi­ces, which address our urban demands, plus include special live perfor­man­ces, inno­va­tive insta­lla­ti­ons, unique physi­cal and mental expe­ri­en­ces, high-profile talks, discus­si­ons and deba­tes, web-focu­sed inter­ac­ti­ons, games and colla­bo­ra­tive expe­ri­en­ces.

We are seeking propo­sals for:

• Insta­lla­ti­ons
• Mass-parti­ci­pa­tion expe­ri­ments
• Events
• Perfor­man­ces
• New products/servi­ces/start-ups
• Works­hops
• Apps
• Visu­a­li­za­ti­ons, maps and mashups

Through our asso­ci­a­tion with The Ark we are also inter­es­ted in propo­sals which cater directly to a youn­ger audi­ence. You can find out more about The Ark’s call, which is on the theme of biodi­ver­sity here http://ark.ie/down­lo­ads/The_Ark_Awake­ning_Curi­o­sity_Submis­sion_Callout_Novem­ber_2011.pdf

Sugges­ted areas of focus include:

• Augmen­ting the City – submis­si­ons that repur­pose the physi­cal city envi­rons to allow a signi­fi­cant unique inter­ac­tion with the surroun­ding city lands­cape, inclu­ding AR apps
• City based projects, objects and expe­ri­en­ces in the areas of public art / street art / commu­nity / new media, tech­no­logy and design.
• Parti­cu­lar atten­tion will be paid to projects that rethink and recy­cle the slack spaces in the city, unco­ver subcul­tu­res, subvert and reveal the archi­tec­tu­ral blue­print of the city itself.
• Projects which allow the city dweller to inter­act with and inter­ject into the city, both in terms of its systems and infras­truc­ture as well as it’s physi­cal form.
• Parti­cu­lar atten­tion will be paid to robust projects that have a signi­fi­cant visual impact or presence in the city itself and are desig­ned to be econo­mic with the avai­la­ble resour­ces and tools. These projects should also contain a signi­fi­cant element that can be inte­gra­ted into the Science Gallery exhi­bi­tion space.
• We are parti­cu­larly inter­es­ted in recei­ving submis­si­ons, which are Dublin speci­fic as well as projects, which refer to the global urban envi­ron­ment or connect diffe­rent cities
• We are inter­es­ted in projects that may have an element of longe­vity that can exist beyond the time span of the exhi­bi­tion itself.
• Urban expe­ri­ments – submis­si­ons which utilize the infras­truc­ture, data and citi­zens of the city to carry out expe­ri­ments
• Future of the City – submis­si­ons, which think broadly and diver­sely about how we live in cities, support subver­sion and play and allow our audi­ence to expe­ri­ence live mappings of the dyna­mic city (flow of energy, trans­port, capi­tal and people) and gain new insights into our future cities
• Playing with data – submis­si­ons for works, which connect data forms and physi­cally embody data stre­ams, brid­ging ‘on’ and ‘off’ line worlds.
• New busi­ness products and servi­ces – ideas which have commer­cial viabi­lity and provide sustai­na­ble solu­ti­ons for our urban needs, inclu­ding the use of open data, data mash ups and remi­xes

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indi­vi­du­als and do please contact us at

teresa [ punto ] dillonscien­ce­ga­llery [ punto ] com (teresa[dot]dillon[at]scien­ce­ga­llery[dot]com) if you would like to suggest projects or people for the exhi­bi­tion.

Funding

We welcome projects that come with exter­nal funding. The maxi­mum amount of budge­tary support avai­la­ble for each appro­ved appli­ca­tion is €5,000. Each project must be deli­ve­red within this maxi­mum produc­tion budget, which should include all fees, mate­ri­als, ship­ping and travel costs as well as any other cost that may arise from parti­ci­pa­tion in Hack the City. Please note that the produc­tion budget avai­la­ble for event-based propo­sals is signi­fi­cantly less and support will be given on a case-by-case basis.

Submit­ting your Propo­sal

Thanks for your inter­est in submit­ting a propo­sal for HACK THE CITY. Please see some details below on how to submit your propo­sal. If you have any problems or ques­ti­ons with this process please email helpscien­ce­ga­llery [ punto ] com (help[at]scien­ce­ga­llery[dot]com) 

If you are alre­ady regis­te­red with Science Gallery: Please sign in on our home page at www.scien­ce­ga­llery.com (if you have forgot­ten your pass­word, you can reset your pass­word here as well). Once logged in you can submit your propo­sal on a web form at at http://www.scien­ce­ga­llery.com/node/add/open-call-submis­sion. You can save the form at any stage and return to complete your draft before the closing date on Janu­ary 20th 2012. 

If you are not alre­ady regis­te­red with Science Gallery We need you to regis­ter on Science Gallery’s site at https://www.scien­ce­ga­llery.com/user/regis­ter. You will receive an email confir­ma­tion and can set up a user­name and pass­word. Log into Science Gallery and once logged in you can submit your propo­sal on a web form at http://www.scien­ce­ga­llery.com/node/add/open-call-submis­sion. You can save the form at any stage and return to complete your draft before the closing date on Janu­ary 20th 2012.

Click Here to start your appli­ca­tion

Science Gallery Suppor­ters

Science Gallery is an initi­a­tive of Trinity College Dublin suppor­ted through a unique part­ners­hip between the univer­sity, private spon­sors and govern­ment. Key funders are Well­come Trust, Depart­ment of Arts, Heri­tage and the Gael­ta­cht, Dell, Google, ICON, PACCAR and the Euro­pean Commis­sion.

Hack The City at Science Gallery is part of a larger 3-year inter­na­ti­o­nal project, Studi­o­lab, funded under the Euro­pean Commis­sion Frame­work 7 programme, with part­ners inclu­ding Le Labo­ra­toire, Paris; the Royal College of Art, London; Ars Elec­tro­nica, Linz; Medi­a­Lab Prado, Madrid; Opto­fo­nica, Amster­dam; ERG, Brus­sels; Leonardo, France; CIANT, Prauge; RIX-C, Riga; Medi­cal Muse­ion, Copen­ha­gen; Bloom­field, Jeru­sa­lem.