NanoHacking-UNILI

"The innovators of 1600 were hackers before the word existed; they proposed open sharing of ideas for the benefit of humanity. Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Descartes, and the other scientists of the late 1600s could not have inaugurated the greatest scientific innovation of all time—the invention of modern science itself—without the Hackers of the 1600s. The Renaissance’s secretive structure was hacked, and it inspired the Scientific Revolution."

News

23.April: RAUMÄNDERUNG: Ab 24. April finden sämtliche Veranstaltungen im Seminarraum 3 / S3 statt.

Where

http://www.uni.li/tabid/251/id/43034.67/default.aspx

Sandbox - NanoHacking UNILI

Schedule

Description

Overview

During this course, the students will be introduced into the merging disciplines of of art, science and engineering that meet at the nanoscale. But what is nanotechnology? It promises huge beneficial impact on global health, sustainable energy and novel materials. At the same time utopian visions, science-fiction scenarios and fundamental fears are clashing at discussions in society. Throughout the course, we will lift the fogs of these superficial discussions and through hands-on activities get closer to grasp the world of the small. We will build our own simple DIY (do-it-yourself) optical and electronic instruments to learn more about nanoparticles and nanosensors, how to "see" them, how to "hear" them.

One key aspect of the nanosciences is the fact that the traditional disciplinary borders of physics, biology, engineering, to name a few, are merging. With the current tools and methods of understanding matter on the smallest scales of atoms and molecules, only a true collaborative and transdiscplinary approach can lead to new insight, application and constructive discourse of its societal implications.

more about project work and speculativ design thinking

Content (Englisch)

Introduction to the science and technologies at the nanometer scale
Overview of future technology trends involving nanotechnology
Hacking as a method of creative thinking and opening the black box
Practical laboratory experience in nanotechnology
Societal implication of future technologies
Methods for speculative design thinking

Lerninhalt (Deutsch)

Einführung in die Wissenschaft und Technologien auf der Nanometerskala
Überblick von zukunftsweisenden Technologietrends im Bereich der Nanotech
"Hacking" als Methode kreativ zu Denken und die „Black-Box“ zu Öffnen
Praktische Laborexperimente im Bereich Nanotechnologie
Gesellschaftlicher Einfluss von Zukunftstechnologien
Methoden für spekulatives „Design Thinking“

Final Group Presentations

Each group has 40 minutes time for their presentation, including discussions, Q&A

The following parts of your presentations are requested. The order can be changed. suggested times are mentioned.

Introduction into your theme (ca 10%)
Main presentation (40%)
Describe your processes and methodologies used to achieve the goals of your project and critically reflect on them (ca 30%)
Summary (5%)
Q&A session with other students and mentor (25%)

More info about the project:

The project/presentation format can be chosen freely
It has to be connected to the main global theme of "Convergence of Life and Tech at the Nanoscale"
It has to be situated in your general understanding of the field of Nanotechnology
It can be speculative, fictional, dis- utopian, or also applied and realistic
It should be situated in the future - define roughly in wich decade or century your project is situated
It should be fun !!! Keep the humours alive and be critical

About the format:

Please inform M. Dusseiller in advance (2 days) if your presentation needs extra infrastructure (sound system, lights, projection etc...)

NanoHackLab Projects

Collaborative Projects

Team-Project Work

Group 1 - NanoHacking-UNILI

Chaudhary, Omer Khalid
Ender, Raphael
Lamprecht, Claudio
Oksiukovska, Anastasiia

Group 2 - NanoHacking-UNILI

Alge, Janine
Bösch, Kevin
Ruech, Barbara
Weber, Manuel

Group 3 - NanoHacking-UNILI

Chetschumjan, Sevak
Obermaier, Christoph
Schatzmann, Philip
Türtscher, Manuela

Group 4 - NanoHacking-UNILI

El Ghayes, Hassan Amr
Oehri, Stephan
Schnetzer, Stefanie
Urban, Sabrina

Presentation-slides

Day 1 - Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHCT9SOBHs0&feature=youtu.be

https://vimeo.com/19759432

Day 2 & 3 - NanoHackLab

Setting up the Lab

Making Small Things

Dimensionality on the Nanoscale

Seeing Small Things

Surfaces and Interfaces

Day 4 - Group Works Start

Day 5 - Speculative Futures

Day 6 - Presentations

Who

Mentor - Dr. Marc Dusseiller (CH)

Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for micro- and nanotechnology, cultural facilitator and artist. He works in an integral way to combine science, art and education. He performs DIY (do-it-yourself) workshops in lo-fi electronics and synthesizers, hardware hacking, phyisical computing, nanotech and microscopy. He was co-organizing Dock18, Room for Mediacultures, diy* festival (Zürich, Switzerland), KIBLIX 2011 (Maribor, Slovenia), workshops for artists, schools and children as the former president (2008-12) of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK. In collaboration with Kapelica Gallery, he has started the BioTehna Lab in Ljubljana (2012 – 2013), an open platform for interdisciplinary and artistic research on life sciences. Currently, he is developing means to perform bio- and nanotechnology research and dissemination (Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art) in a DIY fashion in kitchens, ateliers and in developing countries.

Special Guest - Dipl.Ing. Urs Gaudenz (CH)

http://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/

Students

jayjay
Omer.K
hghayesh
manuelW
coconut91
StephanOe (changed from Stephan)
SabrinaU (changed from Sabrina)
christophobi
carapace
keegan11
BonsaiBob
ueli
babsiru
oksivk
doc1993
sogomon

Furter readings and interesting links

NanoSmano

NanoŠmano - LifeSystems is an intersting art/sci collaborative research project, which happened 3 times in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The following minimal circuit was developed as a DIY nano-based resistive surface sensor, introducing photolithography and surface properties, see Vive-la-Resistance

wetPONG

A course for bachelor students in biomedical engineering by the mentor, Marc Dusseiller, introducing a game-concept into the practical teaching of micro- and nanotechnology.

http://wetpong.net/