Maker Faire

World Maker Faire 2012: Seth Godin, “Art and Science and Making Things”
The industrialist mindset of productivity and predictable perfection has infected all elements of our lives, from school to science. Once you see it, you’ll understand how it pushes us to avoid the hard work of doing truly interesting science, and how it encourages us to avoid the maker mindset. In this informal talk, I’ll try to get under your skin, at least a little, about what’s at stake.

World Maker Faire 2012: Chris Anderson & Bre Pettis “From Maker Movement to New Industrial Revolution”
How big can the Maker Movement get? Can it really restart a manufacturing renaissance in America? Will desktop fabrication have as much impact as desktop computing did? Bre Pettis (MakerBot) and Chris Anderson (Wired/3D Robotics, author of Makers) discuss the lessons learned in building big Maker businesses, and give a glimpse of where they think this movement is going.

Design and DIY: How Makers are Influencing Product Design with Allan Chochinov (Core77), Tad Toulis (TEAGUE), Gadi Amit (New Deal Design), Jared Ficklin (FROG), Carla Diana (Smart Design)
Hackers, modders, DIYers and makers of all kinds are influencing how product designers approach their craft. Come learn first hand how 4 top designers are embracing this new ethos, the implications it holds for their profession, and how maker culture is impacting the very nature of what it means to design.

World Maker Fair 2012: John Long, “Darwin’s Devices: Evolving Robots to Study Animal Evolution”
To understand organic evolution, we evolve biorobots. Our biorobots are fully autonomous mimics of ancient fish-like vertebrates. We subject them to the same selection pressures that may have occurred 500 million years ago.

World Maker Faire 2012: Jonathan Lippincott, “Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 60s and 70s”
Jonathan Lippincott, author of Large Scale, presents a photographic history of the sculptures made at his family’s fabrication shop/gallery, Lippincott, Inc. Lippincott makers prototyped, made and installed many large-scale iconic art works by Claes Oldenburg, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana and many more.

Cloud Robotics and the African Robotics Network Design Challenge Winners
The Cloud will have a huge impact on the next generation of robots. It provides access to vast resources of data, software, computation,as well as access to human designers and researchers worldwide. Ken will announce the latest results.

World Maker Faire 2012: Mark Read, “Illuminated Interventions: A Preliminary Tactical Guide”
The Illuminator Affinity Group will present a brief history of and discuss lessons learned in the field over the last 4 months of repeated interventions in public space with this tactical media tool, the “spectacularization machine.”