Blog

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!

MORE

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

—–
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!
—–

Next week we have another IGO vocal jam session:
• You can find recent and older tracks from previous IGO session in Das Baumhaus here: – https://soundcloud.com/scott-bolden/ebb-and-flow-p2-edit-2- https://soundcloud.com/scott-bolden/sets/ego-session-5-nov-13-2014 (Track 3)
• Here is a video showing another fun method with larger groups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzmfpnZhDk

——-

Participate!

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.

This event will be in english with the possibility of german translation.  Download the flyer below as a PDF.

And the winner is…

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 Light is 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

Sa 7 Jan

• 19:00 – 22:00 Experimental Acoustic Electric Jam Session

Feat: Şafak Velioğlu improvising live Tar and the traditional eastern instruments while being dubbed into dj tracks

https://www.facebook.com/events/730571913768699/

So 8 Jan

• 13:00 – 19:00 art, design, building and decoration session

Sign up for our upcoming newsletter for up coming news and events

October 25 – November 7

Two weeks of intensive building work ahead – let’s get together again for the final push to make the Baumhaus space legally functional so we can keep the project alive and moving forward!

Come by and join us any day (schedule below) – no special skills required, and we’re happy about everybody helping out for a few hours!

We will be:
• installing and finishing a wood mosaic bar using upcycled / recycled wood and other ecological building materials
• constructing and decorating organic interior facades
• painting surfaces – general & decorative
• attaching branches to installations
• building and installing small finishing details with wood, clay, ceramic mosaic, textiles and lighting
• cooking for the team
• general cleaning
• documenting and sharing the process

SCHEDULE
(after work events will be added as they come, feel free to offer an experience worth sharing…)

Di 25.10.
13 – 19:00 general WORK session
19:00 – dinner and social session
21:00 – Konstantin Mercks (acoustic guitar and vocal)

Mi 26.10.
11 – 19:00 general WORK session
19:00 – dinner and social session

Do 27.10.
11 – 17:00 general WORK session
17 – 19:00 Baumhaus Community Day, open speaking hours
19:15 project updates and quick pitches
19:30 rescued bio food buffet

Sa 29.10.
13 – 19:00 general WORK session
19 – Chill session with musical guests
21:00 – the all-nighter 24 hour participative design challenge & special session:
Join and support Scott in creating the design for the next major mosaic installation in the Men’s toilet room. Bring drinks, snacks, games, music and creativity to share. The Baumhaus will be be transformed into a creative lounge… bring your own projects to work on or join in the ones we have here, take a break on the dance floor… All support is welcome

So 30.10.
14 – 19:00 general WORK session
19 – 21:00 last 2 hours of 24 hour design session (celebrate, eat, sleep)

Di 1.11.
11 – 19:00 general work session

Mi 2.11.
11 – 18:00 general WORK session
18:30 – Baumhaus Zero Waste Meeting (BUND)

Do 3.11.
11 – 17:00 general WORK session
17 – 19:00 Baumhaus Community Day, open speaking hours
19:15 project updates and quick pitches
19:30 rescued bio food buffet
20:30 Improvisational Groove Orchestra (voacal improv jam)
https://soundcloud.com/scott-bolden/ebb-and-flow-p2-edit-2

Sa 5.11.
13 – 19:00 general WORK session
19 – Chill session

So 6.11.
14 – 19:00 general WORK session

Mo 7.11.
11 – 19:00 general WORK session

Thanks to everyone who came out to help prepare for and participate in our first regular community day! Great vibes, good ideas, a yummy rescued bio buffet, a zero waste panel discussion, a workshop painting with colors made from plants, a meeting with a local Wedding group, a clothing exchange complete with a sustainability lottery/quiz plus a whole lot of fun gettign good thing done! Check our facebook timeline for all the event details past , present and future.

p.s. We still really need people to help us finish the space before November so we can get legal and stay open! We are here every week day from 10 until 20:00; just stop by and help with one of our projects…