Our first Henna workshop with Linda Mey was a fun success. Enjoy a glimpse into the process, vibe and surroundings of the day. Stay tuned for our next workshop announcement or check our event calendar: http://www.baumhausberlin.de/en/programm/
From deep ecology and guerrilla gardening to repair cafes and food rescue sessions, check out our upcoming regular and special events. Stay tuned for the Baumhaus Summit…! Find out how the Baumhaus works and how you can collaborate doing what you love to do…
As spring starts to blossom so does the action in the Baumhaus. Full Day Workshops for people who want to make their dream project a reality – this weekend.
Participate in a 1-day practical building experience with our friends from “Earthship Biotechture Duetschland”, the platform for alternative building, learning and living. The workshop will be organized by Hery and Lale from Down2Earth and enable you to experience communal building, creating something with your hands and possibly realizing skills you didn’t even know you had!
Stop by today or any Thursday between 17:00 until 22:00 during our community day to hear all the stories and find out how you can take part in continuing the Baumhaus story.
Of course this week’s Baumhaus community day will feature our regular rescued bio food buffet hosted by The Real Junk Food Project: Berlin and Foodsharing Berlin, but we also have a special print your own stuff workshop for you to enjoy!
Since we finally printed the limited run of organic cotton t-shirts as rewards from our successfull crowd-funding campaign last year, we decided to share the art. Coost from Czentri Fuga ( http://www.unter-druck.de ), social printers will be set up at the Baumhaus to print our new t-shirt design on whatever you would like to print on! Bring your old bags, shirts, pants or whatever and give them a Baumhaus makeover. Make a donation of your choice to support either project if you like.
We will also have only 2 or 3 extra of each t-shirt color in each size (s, m, l, xl) to purchase in support of the Baumhaus for €30.( screen design by Susan Sanford )
Feel most welcome to come and join us in the Open Greeting Zones!
16:00 Stop by to help cook
17:00 Baumhaus open speaking hours (get informed, involved and collaborate)
18:00 printing starts
19:45 RJFPB intro, open pitches, BH news
20:00 recued bio food buffet (donation/Spenden)
20:30: meet-&-greet and hangout
21:30: printing ends
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The address is Gerichtstr. 23 in the front house on the ground floor, you can walk in our door from the sidewalk. We will have some all kinds of drinks available at the bar.
** 2 – 5€ suggested donation at the door (after 19:00)
Thanks!
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Stop by any weekday between 11 and 20:00 to help with the detailing… We really need your help during our (hopefully) last 4 weeks of renovations! Check the Baumhaus Calendar for specific dates and times.
VDI Winning Team – Prof. Hausburg with Matthias Bock, Florian Schwanz, Thee Vanichangkul & Long Pham
The team designed and built sensors into the Baumhaus main room floor to detect the presence and movement of people in the space and a control a system that allows people to influence the lighting in the space (the tree, Orchid Lamps and other installations) in purposeful and emergent ways.
The Baumhaus Sentient Light project convinced the jury and was awarded with the first price. None of us expected this kind of success. Even more we are all happy receiving this appreciation for our work.
In a brief speech Prof. Hausburg summed up the project as the integration of a technical solution in a social environment which directly reflects people’s dynamics and interactions.
Like the year before the Association of German Engineers (VDI) called for participation of engineering students from Berlin an Brandenburg on challenge Mensch und Technik (people and technology). Until 30 September 2016 teams of up to three students could hand in a poster and a brief description of a project having a strong connection to both people and technology.
Mid November VDI announced that our team is invited to the award ceremony – yeah! On 25 November the award ceremony took place at Ludwig Erhard Haus near Berlin Zoologischer Garten.
Team Sentient Light and prof. Hausburg
At the beginning of the event the most successful graduates of technical classes in Berlin and Brandenburg were honored. Speakers of the VDI emphasized the challenges to address and solve challenges of the modern and connected city. Presindet of Technische Hochschule Brandenburg (University of Applied Sciences) – Prof. Dr. Wieneke-Toutaoui – also outlined today’s possibilities as an engineering stundent to make the world a better place. In this context she also mentioned the increased but nonetheless low amount of female students in engineering.
Other speakers appealed to the students’ entrepreneurial spirit. One quote by Reid Hoffman stayed in memory
„If you are not embarassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched to late.“
– Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn
After that the top three award-winning teams were announced. At this point we did not yet not know which place we would be.
In reverse order the teams were asked to come on stage: third place went to a team of two students who made use of an Aldebaran Nao robot in order to translate spoken language into sign language. The second price went to one student who developed a technique to reduce airplane noise by using liners.
Finally all the three teams had the opportunity to present their concepts and posters in details and were able to answer questions. The increased interest in our project motivated us to present the different aspects in more detail.
Let us know if you are interested in joining our award winning Tech Team and help finish installing elements of our sentient lighting system or interesting projects we are developing.
Sentient Light: project vision
Sentient Lightis a generic system which reactively controls LEDs. Using parameters from the surroundings, such as the presence and motion of people moving in the space, the system can change the color and intensity of light installations throughout the room. This makes the room is ‘intelligent’ in the sense that it can react to the behaviour of people in the space. We hope is that this technology can be used passively and actively by visitors to inspire more sentient and emergent behaviour.
The project is currently being realized in Baumhaus Berlin.Das Baumhaus is a project and event space in Berlin Wedding where people can meet, collaborate and work on social and ecological projects and other topics related to sustainable development and making the world a better place in general. Baumhaus also offers services from a sustainable solutions collective of over 100 interdisciplinary freelancers.
Dataflow
The general idea is to measure environmental parameters using sensors and to transfer measured values to a central processing device. There all the values will be aggregated and transformed by a mapping engine.
Transformed values in turn will be sent to actors which will use them as input values.
Bluetooth Smart
Sensors, actors and the processing device communicate via radio signals using Bluetooth Smart and span a network of things. It features a simple protocol stack and low energy consumption and is supported by most smartphones and tablets.
Just before Christmas, I over stressed my back while moving things in the Baumhaus and ended up activating an old painful injury. The good news is that despite the physical pain, I had the best Christmas and New Years I have had in a very long time! My heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who stopped by to help out, hang out, cook, celebrate, play, dance, clean, build and plan. While I am not 100% recovered from my injury, I am improving daily thanks to the sensitive and precise body work done by Collin and Nicole in combination my renewed sense of discipline towards self maintenance and transformation. -Sb
Join us in the spirit of getting back active:
Th/Do 5 Jan
• 13:00 – 17:00 light organising & building
• 17:00 – 19:00 open house chill, socialise, plan
• 19:30 – 22:00 rescued bio-buffet, announcements and news, connect
