Meshcon 2022 (In-Person + Virtual)

Mitch Altman is a Berlin-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as featured speaker at hacker conferences, as international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops. He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.

Sessions

12:45 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Ines Weigand completed her studies in 2020 at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with a master's degree in social and business communication. In her collaborative master's thesis, she examined the potential of the Open Science movement to change the relationship between humans and nature. In order to pursue this problem, which is typical of the Anthropocene, she used methods of critical making and experience-based learning.

After two years of experience in (knowledge) transfer and participatory urban development at the University of the Arts and the public innovation laboratory CityLAB Berlin, she returned to the University of the Arts in October 2022. Here she is doing research in the project "Design, Diversity and New Commons" of the UdK Berlin / Weizenbaum Institute.

Ines Weigand builds bridges between science, society and politics and benefits from her interdisciplinary character and pragmatic attitude. She is interested in alternative learning environments, new forms of knowledge production and concepts of sustainability leading to socio-ecological transformation.

Sessions

1:20 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Marije Remigius ist Nachhaltigkeitsmanagerin bei Fiction Factory. Nach 20 Jahren als Projektmanagerin für das Unternehmen beschloss sie, die Arbeitsweise von ihr und der Fabrik zu ändern. In Zusammenarbeit mit ihren Kunden und anderen Stakeholdern verändern sie die Art und Weise, wie Innenräume gebaut werden, und schließen das System, indem sie die Verantwortung für die von ihnen produzierten Innenräume übernehmen. Nicht nur durch rücknahme, sondern auch durch Wiederverwendung und Wiederverwendung der Materialien.

Durch Präsentationen und Workshops vor Architekten, Studenten und in Unternehmen lernt sie andere, dasselbe zu tun. Sie arbeitet in europäischen Förderprojekten an der Reduzierung von Holzabfällen mit Open Source und digitalen Lösungen. Und mit ihren 7 Loops zum kreisförmigen Ausstellungsbau ist sie aktiv daran beteiligt, die Art und Weise, wie unser kulturelles Erbe präsentiert wird, zu verändern.  

Derzeit ist sie an der Produktion von 3 biobasierten und kreisförmigen Pavillons und 2 Ausstellungen auf der Floriade 2022 in Almere niederlande beteiligt.

Sessions

10:20 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Sara Reichert is a researcher in the field of electrical engineering passionate about connecting science and civil society with help of open hardware.

Sessions

2:45 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Von Design Thinking, über Physical Computing bis hin zu urbaner Medienkunst – mit ihrem umfangreichen Werkzeugkoffer begleitet Caro Stadtbürger:innen und Akteur:innen im Bildungsbereich oder aus der Verwaltung auf ihrem Weg zu eigenen Ideen, Prototypen und Projekten für die Stadt der Zukunft. In der Technologiestiftung ist sie u.a. Co-Initiatorin und Facilitatorin der Werkstatt im CityLAB, Projektleiterin der Hacking Box und der EduTechMap Berlin.

Sessions

1:10 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Robert Mies studied industrial engineering with a focus on mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. During this time he also gained practical experience by working for three and a half years as a student trainee at Siemens Energy in Berlin.

Since April 2016, Mr. Mies has been working as a research assistant at the Chair for Quality Science at the Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Operations at the Technical University of Berlin.

Sessions

1:45 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Lars is a designer, artist, activist and educator based in Berlin Germany. Lars runs a design Studio for open circular design, education and creative activism called Mifactori and works on Treegrid.

Sessions

11:50 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Mario Behling is the CEO of OPNTEC. He is based in Berlin where he collaborates with a global community to develop Open Source products like the Pocket Science Lab IoT platform. Mario has lived for many years in Asia where he co-started FOSSASIA. Apart from tech Mario has an interest in Indian and Brazilian music, designed and built a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam, and setup mesh networks in schools in Afghanistan.

Sessions

10:00 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Studio Animaspace (Angelina Kozhevnikova) is an interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of generative art, design research and speculative architecture based in Rotterdam. With the help of mixed media (film, prototypes, interactive installations and performances), the studio explores human-machine collaboration, communication and co-design.

Sessions

11:00 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Donald Müller-Judex hat bereits zwei Unternehmen aufgebaut. Der Anmelder mehrerer Patente ist in vielen Bereichen des Unternehmensaufbaus erfahren und hat mehrere innovative Produkte entwickelt, die mit unterschiedlichen Awards ausgezeichnet wurden. Seine Kernkompetenzen sind der Unternehmensaufbau und die Produktentwicklung.

Sessions

11:40 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Arina Kapitanova is an Artist and Urbanist based in Berlin. Having a background in urban planning, research and strategic development, she is interested in the multidisciplinary design approach with a focus on spatial and social aspects of our life on different scales. She holds a Masters degree in Urban Design from the Technical University of Berlin, from where she graduated in 2022.

Sessions

11:00 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Alessandro designs innovative tools to support a collaborative research environment and facilitate the learning process in life sciences, in- and outside universities. He believes that involving citizens in the decision-making process contributes to design a future that can better fit the needs of single individuals. Universal access to education is the key to empowering individuals to participate in this process. Hence, he fosters critical discussions and inspires others to forward their own inquiry. As a biologist, he organises workshops like the Mushroom Cultivation Course connected to Mind the Fungi, and is involved in the exploration of innovation opportunities at the intersection of technology and biology at companies involved in information technology.

Sessions

11:30 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Carpenter and Media Educator, TU Berlin. Daniels project work as a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin revolves around technology education in youth clubs for children and young people who are disadvantaged by our education system.

Sessions

2:35 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

I am a computer scientist as well as an audiovisual artist with a Master’s degree in public policy and eleven years of experience as a speaker and teacher.
In my work, I combine UX engineering, deep tech, communication expertise and artistic creativity.

Sessions

2:20 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Sessions

10:50 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Juliette Collas wurde in Frankreich geboren und studierte in Paris und an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden. Von 2010 bis 2013 folgten Assistenzen in Deutschland und Frankreich, u. a. an der Schaubühne Berlin, bei den Wiener Festwochen, am Théâtre national de Bretagne und am Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine. Seit 2010 zeichnet sie als freie Bühnen- und Kostümbildnerin verantwortlich für u. a. „4213“, [Regie Sebastian Rietz, Festspielhaus Hellerau in Zusammenarbeit mit der Forsythe Company], „Punk Rock“ [Regie Carola Unser, Landesbühne Niedersachsen], die Raumgestaltung für „Eine Woche im Oktober“ [Kurator Arved Schultze, Staatsschauspiel Dresden] und „Der Kaktus“ [Regie Bea Schwarzbach, Theater Meiningen]. 2012 erhielt Juliette Collas den „DAAD-Preis“.

Sessions

10:10 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Former neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.

Sessions

10:10 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Daniel is passionate about the intersection of open hardware and open workshops. For the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, he works as a project manager on a prototype fund hardware. He is also part of the EU-funded project OPENNEXT, bringing together makerspaces and SMEs to co-develop open hardware. As an interaction designer with a PhD, he is also active for other NGOs and is involved in assistive technologies for people who are deaf, for example.

Sessions

11:15 AM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Grayson is a research assistant at the Chair of Computer Science in Architecture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in Germany. He received his MArch from University of Nebraska (2014) before working as a design architect in New York and Stuttgart, and has earned degrees in MSc MediaArchitecture from Bauhaus Universität Weimar (2020) and MSc Architecture in Situated Technologies at the University at Buffalo SUNY ( 2020).

Sessions

1:35 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Lisa Bell Weisdorf is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose work permeates the boundaries between sculpture, installation, digital media, and video. Her research-driven practice is primarily attuned to issues of gender, consumer culture, and the portrayal of women in cyber-cinematic apparatuses. Using an analytical approach informed by her educational background studying media theory, as well as her professional experience working as an archival producer for documentary cinema, she employs formal tactics of appropriation and détournement to tease out the repressed inconsistencies of myriad representational systems, and interrogate the ways in which capitalism dispossesses, structures, and produces our experience as subjects.

Sessions

3:15 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Maker, educator, LED enthusiast. Started creating open-source LED lamps and making them accessible to people as DIY kits - to get more people excited about LEDs and industrial design.

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2:00 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Mit einem Hintergrund in Informatik begann er an der Hochschule Trier ein Studium in Intermedia Design mit dem Schwerpunkt Interaktive Medien/Mensch-Computer-Interaktion. Während eines Auslandssemesters an der University of the Arts London vertiefte er sich in der Verknüpfung von physischen und analogen Medien, fand Begeisterung an der Medienkunst und begann schließlich ein Studium im Masterstudiengang Medienkunst und -design an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Er ist stark davon überzeugt, dass nicht nur menschliche Akteure eine Rolle in unserer zukünftigen Umwelt spielen werden, sondern auch nicht-menschliche Interessen in unsere Gesellschaft einbezogen werden müssen, auch wenn diese zunächst spekulativ sein mögen. Heute arbeitet er neben digitalen Medien verstärkt an installativen Arbeiten die Elektronik, lebende Organismen und die Umwelt verbinden, die häufig durch physikalische Einflüsse verändert werden. In seinen Arbeiten wird die Interaktivität zwischen nicht-menschlichen Akteuren und vom Menschen geschaffenen Maschinen zu erforscht. Außerdem trägt er heute die Rolle des stellvertretenden Vorsitzenden in dem Kunstverein PULPXIX e.V., den er 2021 als Initiator mitbegründete.


With a background in computer science, he began studying Intermedia Design at Trier University of Applied Sciences with a focus on interactive media/human-computer interaction. During his semester abroad at the University of the Arts London, he deepened his knowledge of linking physical and analogue media. Besides that he found enthusiasm in media art and consequently started studying for a Master's degree in Media Art and Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He strongly believes that not only human actors will play a role in our future environment, but non human interests need to be involved in our society as well, even if they may be speculative at first. Today, in addition to digital media, he is increasingly working on installation works that combine electronics, living organisms and the environment that are often manipulated by physical impacts. His work explores the interactivity between non-human actors and man-made machines. In addition, he now holds the role of vice-chairman in the art association PULPXIX e.V., which he co-founded as an initiator in 2021.

Sessions

2:10 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)

Cosmo Schüppel beschäftigt sich in seinem Studium an der Bauhaus Universität Weimar, mit den Überschneidungen von Klangkunst, Performance und BioArt. Im Fokus seiner Arbeit stehen Subjekt/Objekt-Beziehungen und das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Umwelt. Durch seine künstlereichen Arbeiten zieht sich ein wissenschaftlich-zeremonieller Ansatz. Rationalität verschwimmt mit Intuitivem Verständnis, Spekulationen verschwimmen in Fakten und Akteure verlieren sich in den Mustern welche sie umgeben.

Sessions

3:00 PM, December 10th 2022 (CET)