[NetBehaviour] Come and build Betty Cipher's School of the Future! Sat 12th November at the Common House

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Come and build Betty Cipher's School of the Future! Sat 12th November at
the Common House

Autonomous Tech Fetish (ATF) is calling for curious and critical people of
all sorts to help us create Betty Cipher’s School of the Future, a new
workshop programme located in the Common House.

Because technological change moves fast, time is key for the development of
useful counter practices and critical methods. We think this is best done
collectively so we can learn from each other, share skills, and build paths
forward.

Over the last three years, ATF’s activities included workshops on data
security, trash databases, libre graphics, data drinking tea gloves,
embodied mapping, and DIY biometrics. We now want to move into a new phase,
mixing our experiences with your ideas and insights to make a co-education
programme for the future.

Come to our first development meeting, where we’ll literally build our
School of the Future through a creative model making exercise. This will be
our way in to discussing a whole range of issues, such as:

-how to give value to different kinds of knowledge and approaches to
learning
-how we might give central place to people too often sidelined in technical
cultures (thinking about, but not limited to, race, gender, age, ability)
-what sort of methods should we use (e.g. technology education, art
methods, embodied learning)
-how do we reach out to people? to who?
-what do we explore first?

Please join us, no skills required, but an open mind is a must!

Times and place:
12-4pm, Sat 12th November 2016 at the Common House (5E Pundersons Garden,
London. E2 9QG)
Nearest tube: Bethnal Green
http://www.commonhouse.org.uk/event/bettycipher-school-of-the-future/

If you’d like to attend, but aren’t able to due to e.g. childcare or
transport costs, please get in touch as we have some limited funds that we
might be able to use to help.

Kids are welcome! We try to make everything we do accessible to all ages
and abilities as far as we can, and are happy to provide alternative things
to do if that makes more sense. Common House is wheelchair accessible but
unfortunately the toilet isn’t yet.

About us
Autonomous Tech Fetish probes how digital technology is fetishised and how
it can be re-configured to different needs and desires. We work with
activist groups to affirm their technological autonomy and are committed to
co-education exploring the pitfalls and potentials of technologies without
assumptions.
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