hackteria

Building an APL

The APL is a prototype for a people’s research Laboratory.It is a mobile community laboratory for “outsiders” to engage with the rituals and narratives of the science laboratory.The APL, furnished with hacked and repurposed consumer electronics, that are re-appropriated as performative and scientific tools, APL invites people to create local discourses around science and (“art”).The APL version installed in BANGALORE will conduct open workshops on microscopy, aerial photography, citizen cartography and biologically inspired robots.The APL functions as an autonomous space to investigate microscopic and macroscopic organisms (both biological and technological) that inhabit a city.APL’s have been installed in Bangalore,New Delhi and Toronto. These images are from BLR, DELHI and TORONTO.

The standard APL is equipped with a

1. Sterile Hood
2. Web-cam Microscopes
3. Centrifuge(made with a blender)
4. A gel electrophoresis box
5. pipettes,
6. Test-Tubes.
7. Incubatoer
8. WaterBath
9. PCR Machines

Instructions to build all of this is on the Hackteria wiki

More information in later posts

Thanks to Marc Dussieller, Andy Gracie, Lisa Deanne Smith, Shai Heredia, Charles Reeve & Benjamin Verdicchio for the inspiration.

Building the lab

Lithograph poster

workshops

Breaking a webcam for a microscope

microscopes built by workshop participants

APL in Delhi

Building APL ver0 in BLR