[California] Fwd: Fwd: Public Lab for Open Technology and Science in Davis, Thu Apr 5, 4pm

[Michele Tobias]

If you're near Davis on Wednesday or Thursday, the Public Lab is having 
events on the UCD campus.

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Subject: 	Fwd: Public Lab for Open Technology and Science in Davis, Thu 
Apr 5, 4pm
Date: 	Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:28:52 -0700
From: 	Michele Tobias <mmtobias at ucdavis.edu>
To: 	geographystudent at ucdavis.edu, geospatial at ucdavis.edu, 
ggeadmin at ucdavis.edu, Melissa M Whaley <mmwhaley at ucdavis.edu>, GLOBAL 
<geographyclub at ucdavis.edu>, Carrie Armstrong-Ruport 
<caruport at ucdavis.edu>, Anna Fryjoff-Hung <afryjoffhung at ucdavis.edu>



Please forward to those who might be interested...

The Public Laboratory for Open Technology & Science is starting a 
chapter at UCD.  Kickoff events include a kite aerial photography 
demonstration on the quad Wednesday at noon (weather permitting) and an 
info/organization meeting Thursday at 4:00 in 1246 SSH (Deathstar).  
More information is below.  (If you have a balloon air photo kit and 
want to demo on the quad, let me know.)  :)

best,
Michele

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please forward:

Public Laboratory is setting up shop at UC Davis!

Come see community mapping projects using DIY balloon and kite 
technology. Hack a roomba to monitor air pollution. Make a spectrometer 
out of a $10 materials that plugs into your laptop. Brainstorm ways to 
connect the issues you care about to techniques for doing something 
about them.

The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science 
<http://publiclaboratory.org/> (PLOTS) is a community which develops and 
applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and 
investigation. By democratizing inexpensive and accessible 
“Do-It-Yourself” techniques, Public Laboratory creates a collaborative 
network of practitioners who actively re-imagine the human relationship 
with the environment. http://publiclaboratory.org/tools

We are joining forces with the Science & Technology Studies Club to 
bring together critical thinking, civic science, and making things. 
Actively seeking engineers, scientists, computer scientists, social 
scientists, artists, humanists and nonhumanists to hack a better world. 
All skills you have or want to learn are valuable.

Geography grad students Michele Tobias and Alex Mandel have documented 
the pepper spraying protests with balloon-lofted cameras 
<http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/micheletobias/11-21-2011/occupy-uc-davis-nov-21-2011> and 
chart beaches for erosion. They will be demonstrating kite-mapping 
technology, weather permitting, in the quad Wednesday, April 4, at noon.

We will have an initial organizing meeting this Thursday, April 5th, 4pm 
at the STS room 1246 SSH. Co-Founder of Public Lab, Mathew Lippincott 
will talk describe its successes, opportunities, possibilities. Let us 
know if you are interested, spread the word.

Map to SSH 1246: http://tinyurl.com/1246ssh

Additional directions: 1246 SSH (aka Deathstar), easiest way to find
it is to enter the parking lot between Young & SSH off A St. At the
end of the parking lot turn right and walk between two buildings. Off
to your left is a sliding glass door. 1246 is inside to your left.

Joseph Dumit, Director
Science and Technology Studies
Professor of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

mailto:dumit at ucdavis.edu <mailto:dumit at ucdavis.edu>
http://sts.ucdavis.edu <http://sts.ucdavis.edu/>
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