The OPEN SPACE project is a tool for self-motorized exchange and self-organized knowledge transfer located in the Campus Mornewegschule in Darmstadt. Regardless of whether you are a course participant, tutor, or visitor to the Summer Course: If you want to organize your own public meeting, discussion or talk, give a lecture, present a work or thought, play musical recordings, screen a film, or propose other public events, the seven rooms constituting OS offer you the framework to do so.

OS Location

Campus Mornewegschule

Hermannstrasse 21

D-64285 Darmstadt

Ground Floor: OS showcase (Gym Hall, adjacent building)

First Floor: OS headquarters, OS rooms 1–6

Opening hours:

15–28 July 2012, 10:00–19:00

OS activities are announced in the OS online calendar

Please, check regularly for updates!

OPEN SPACE ONLINE CALENDAR

There are three simple rules for using the OS that are meant to facilitate self-organized activities (thanks to: PAF Performing Arts Forum | www.pa-f.net):

– Don't leave traces.

– Make things possible for others.

– The doer decides, the decider does.

All OS activities are self-organized: there is no staff assigned to the rooms. The organization and realization of activities, preparation, build-up, usage of equipment and cleanup after the event are the responsibility of the respective initiator(s). If you need support you can find someone from the OS team in the OS headquarters.

OS is public: all OS activities are publicly announced and accessible to the public. OS is not functional as a private rehearsal or work space.

Open Space Plan Mornewegschule

OPEN SPACE ONLINE CALENDAR

How to organize a project in the OS

Step 1: Visit the OS headquarters (Campus Mornewegschule, First Floor).

Step 2: Choose an OS room with equipment suitable for your project (see below).

Step 3: Check the OS calendar in the OS headquarters for a free slot in the respective OS room.

Step 4: Inscribe your project into the OS calendar.

Step 5: Send the following information about your project to Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann. :

DATE

TIME (hh:mm–hh:mm)

OS ROOM No.

TITLE

LANGUAGE

SHORT DESCRIPTION

If you don't have access to email you can hand in this information at the OS headquarters.

Advance announcement (before 15 July) is also possible: Please check room availability via the OPEN SPACE ONLINE CALENDAR and send above information to Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann. .

Your project will be made public in the OS online calendar by the end of the day of inscription.

Please, take care of your audience: spread the word, invite people to join your project.

ROOMS & EQUIPMENT

First Floor:

OS headquarters

OS calendar, powerbook, OS library, wlan

OS 1

blackboard, tables, chairs, wlan

OS 2

video beamer, PA system (2 active loudspeakers JBL EON515 on tripods, 8 channel mixer, 2 microphones with stands, cable with 3.5 mm connector for Laptop), blackboard, tables, chairs, wlan

OS 3

blackboard, tables, chairs, wlan

OS 4

music stands, blackboard, tables, chairs, wlan

OS 5

tables, chairs, wlan

OS 6

video beamer, hi-fi system, overhead projector, blackboard, tables, chairs, wlan

Ground Floor:

OS showcase (Gym Hall, adjacent building)

piano, PA system (2 loudspeakers JBL SRX712M on tripods, power mixer Soundcraft Powerstation600, 2 microphones with stands, cable with 3.5 mm connector for Laptop), video beamer, music stands, chairs

How to attend projects in the OS

All projects taking place in the OS are publicly accessible. The OS online calendar is accessible via [LINK ONLINE CALENDAR]. Please, check regularly for updates!

OS Materials

Open Space Guests

Harper, Adam: Infinite Music. Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making. Zero Books, 2011

Rouge's Foam (Adam Harper's blog) | http://rougesfoam.blogspot.co.at/

Cvejic, Bojana and De Keersmaeker, Anne Teresa: A Choreographer’s Score. Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena’s Aria, Bartók. Yale University Press, 2012

Walking Theory Belgrade (Bojana Cvejic et al.) | http://www.tkh-generator.net/

Xavier Le Roy's website | http://www.xavierleroy.com

Other Texts, Books & Sites

Attali, Jacques: Noise: Political Economy of Music (Theory & History of Literature). University of Minnesota Press, 2008

Badiou, Alain: Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return of Philosophy. Continuum, 2005

Burroughs, William: Electronic Revolution. Ubu Classics, 2005 (http://www.ubu.com/historical/burroughs/electronic_revolution.pdf)

Bull, Michael, and Back, Les: The Auditory Culture Reader. Oxford: Berg, .

Cox, Christoph and Warner, Daniel (ed.): Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. Continuum, 2004

Delanda, Manuel: Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. Continuum, 2005

Diederichsen, Diedrich and Constanze Ruhm (ed.): Utopia of Sound. Immediacy and Non-Simultaneity. Vol. 10 Schriften der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Schlebrügge Editor, 2010

Fisher, Mark: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Zero Books, 2009

Foerster, Heinz von: Kybernethik. Merve Verlag, 1993

Freund, Alexandra Margarete, Hütt, Marc-Thorsten and Vec, Milo (eds.): Selbstorganisation: Ein Denksystem für Natur und Gesellschaft. Böhlau 2006

Gielen, Pascal: The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude. Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism. Valiz, 2009

Goodman, Steve: Sonic Warfare. Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear. The MIT Press, 2010

Maturana, Humberto M. and Varela, Francisco J.: Tree of Knowledge. The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Shambhala Publications, 1998

Maturana, Humberto M. and Pörksen, Bernhard: From Being to Doing. The Origins of the Biology of Cognition. Carl Auer International, 2004

Nyman, Michael: Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. Cambridge University Press, 1999

Pörksen, Bernhard: The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivism. Imprint Academic, 2004

Prigogine, Ilya and Nicolis, Gregoire: Exploring Complexity. W H Freeman & Co, 1989

Rancière, Jacques: The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, trans. & intr. Kristin Ross. Stanford University Press, 1991

Rancière, Jacques: The Emancipated Spectator, trans. Richard Steurer, ed. Peter Engelmann. Verso Books, 2009

Small, Christopher: Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Wesleyan University Press, 1998

Stubbs, David: Fear of Music. Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen. Zero Books, 2011

Théberge, Paul: Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology. Wesleyan University Press, 1997

Virno, Paolo: A Grammar of the Multitude. For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life, trans. Isabelle Bertoletti, James Cascaito & Andrea Casson. Semiotext(e), 2004

Related Projects and Websites

PAF (Performing Arts Forum) | www.pa-f.net

Cybernetic Culture Research Unit | http://www.ccru.net/

The Public School | http://all.thepublicschool.org/

Everybodystoolbox | http://www.everybodystoolbox.net/

The Foundation for P2P Alternatives | http://p2pfoundation.net