Wikimedia is an institution connected to the world’s biggest online encyclopedia, the Wikipedia. The organization takes care of press relations, raises and distributes funds, promotes Wikipedia through events, and more.
This year, Wikimedia Chapters from all around the world and the Wikimedia Foundation from San Francisco met in Berlin for their annual Chapters Meeting. Together with Don Dahlmann, I facilitated the sessions. (weiterlesen…)
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Jay Cousins is a 30-year-old inventor. His “talk to me about…” bubbles (#lbubbles) used at Palomar5 represent his philosophy: Human over tech. Among other things, Jay invented a foldable espresso-cup and turned the idea into a worldwide business. After six years, he gave up his business and came to Berlin in search of new inspiration. He has recently participated in the atoms&bits-Festival, where he offered an Upcycling/DIY-Workshop.
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Jay on Dada technologies, one of the projects at Palomar5, aimed at making technology more human:
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Rana Jarbou is a 28-year-old retired banker from Saudi Arabia. She recently quit her job in London because she felt there was something wrong with the system. Now she has sworn never to do anything anymore for the sole purpose of making money. She presently documents Palomar5 in a comic book and collects street art from allover the islamic world.
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Hank Rossi brought his time machine to Palomar5. He tells you what happens if you travel a trillion years into the future and proposes a three-day weekend to promote a better work-life-balance.
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1989 was the year that changed Europe. 20 years afterwards, filmmaker Patrick Becker revisited eleven countries in Central and Eastern Europe where transformation took place. He interviewed people who had been at the forefront of democratic change, from a border guard in Hungary to participants of student demonstrations in Prague.
Becker’s eleven short documentaries take you through Eastern Europe and the lives and stories of those involved: How do people active in the tearing down of the iron curtain remember this historic year in retrospective? How has it changed and shaped their lives? The documentaries, funded by the European Commission and produced on behalf of Tipik communication agency, are subtitled in all 22 European languages. You can watch them here.
I had the chance to work with Patrick Becker and research eyewitnesses for the documentary in Berlin. (weiterlesen…)
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Christian Villum founded a Creative Commons Music Label and blogs on Autofunk
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Photos and Audio: Anja Krieger / Audio Cut: Stefanie Otto
Für das Hotel Amano hat Floor5 in Zusammenarbeit mit supersoul einen englischen Audio-Guide produziert. Dazu habe ich die Texte verfasst, eingesprochen wurde sie von Brad Girard, amerikanischem Tourguide in Berlin. In 20 Tracks geht es zu den spannendsten Sehens-würdigkeiten von Berlin. Zum Reinhören:
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