After getting up real early I set out from Leiden and started my trip to the Studio K building in Amsterdam. I tried to fit in the best I could but didn’t know anyone, had no clue where to go and was really confused about what to do. Everyone seemed really at ease while I felt more like a lost soul. Being at Winter Camp for only one day thus meant I required a mission. I needed a reason to be there, to find my way in this big pool full of ideas and people. Everything I knew until then is that it was an event about networks coming together, about organizing a network and about sharing knowledge. These might be nice expressions but it didn’t mean anything to me. What does it mean to be a network why are people in a network? Those were things I wanted to know.  Read the rest of this entry »

CARTOGRAPHIES: NETWORKS IN PROGRESS
Tonight! 17:00-18:30 hrs, Cinema

What happens to a network when it grows, constitutes, transforms, and sediments? What are some successful projects that have scaled and managed to balance between structure and informality? What techniques, tactics, and procedures help networks stabilize and change? Why and under what conditions does it make sense to put the brakes on growth? What role does individuality and fragmentation play in the constitution and proliferation of networks?

Gabriella Coleman and Jaromil will provide short presentations to kick start the conversation related to these (and other) questions and open up the plenary to you.

Plenary sessions are moments for you to share, argue and debate outside your network – SO STAND UP, GET UP, GRAB THE MIC!
Unheard voices are more than welcome.

Currently the Winter Camp team is quite busy organizing the last bits towards the event being held at the beginning of March.

The program booklet is off to the printer and we’re really excited about it. For all of you who already want to sneak a peek, we’ve put it up on the website as a PDF download.
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/wintercamp/program-2/ (21.9 MB)

Furthermore, here you can get an impression about the design of Winter Camp.
Here’s a little taste of the (making of the) design, made by Lava Graphic Design: a combination of (painted) watercolors and (silk screened) ASCII.