Connecting Otherwise

The H&D Summer Academy was organized in a distributed manner, leveraging the format of the ‘workshop script’ : a pedagogical document format that H&D has been experimenting with for several years.

We invited different summer academy nodes 13 , collectives that were selected by means of an open call, to organize the HDSA together yet while remaining in the different local contexts. The nodes from Berlin, Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), and Seoul committed to a collective development process consisting of preparatory meetings, developing a 1-day hands-on workshop, and hosting the full activity program for local (and in one node also remote) participants. Each node developed a workshop script that was shared beforehand with the other nodes. This way the different local facilitators could prepare and host these workshops as a proxy. In an experimental way, we explored the concept of a workshop script as an executable document, that can be reproduced by others in other contexts as well. In this way, the different collectives were able to engage with each other’s practices through organizing, making and doing things together and connecting our ideas and practices. The process led to a positive experience for participants, but also required extensive interpretation and generosity from the respective workshop facilitators, participants, and the collectives who developed the activities and were on standby to troubleshoot and answer questions or clear things up.

Workshop scripts

• 'I AM YOU' Being Connected By Being with DDDUG:
• [Hacking Into Open Source and Open Space with MELT https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2022/p/Hacking_Into_Open_Source_and_Open_Space_with_MELT]
• SoilPunk with Hackitects x H&D
• 塊 (Katamari) with NEWS