Website 2014-Workshops Introduction
OSE workshops are intended to provide you with immersion, hands-on training in practical skills - so you can Build Yourself - and thereby build the world around you. The goal is to lay to rest the myth of technology - to tame technology so that it truly serves human needs - as opposed to humans serving the needs of technology.
The way to such mastery, autonomy, and purpose is lowering the barriers to understanding and hacking the technosphere around us - unleashing both information and raw horsepower - ecologically and regeneratively.
The more general goal is reskilling civilization on its forthcoming transition from consumer culture to unleashed human creativity. We hope that in the future, people will look at the ending century of consumer culture as the 'dark ages of the computer age' - superceded by a return to efficient, distributed production - and elightened by individuals who have regained their autonomy in a pursuit of mastery, with life-giving purpose.
While that is a tall order for our 3-day immersion workshops - our aspiration is to show any participant that they have more productive power in their hands than they ever thought possible.
Some of the tangible outcomes include:
- Build of a heavy machine in a single day using OSE's innovative collaborative swarming build techniques - where you are an essential part of the build team.
- Showing to the world that this social production model makes sense both economically and socially - and that the model has a chance of being replicated virally
- Producing definitive documentation: language agnostic instructionals are used during the workshop, and these are updated and refined as a byproduct of the workshop.
- Producing definitive design files - from full CAD models to digital fabrication files that allows you or any custom fabricator to build the machine, delivering the promise of digital fabrication for just about any product. See Full Printed.
- Paper copy of a manual - we will use a template and produce a high quality manual with excellent information architecture. We will do this in real time with footage captured and assets created during the workshop
- Publish paper copy of manual
