Welcome to the Eindhoven Footnotes mobile platform.

Eindhoven Footnotes is a grassroots project that investigates the lived experiences of citizens within our technocratic city. Through the lens of design, writing, research, archeology and artistic practice, the city will be dissected by groups of participants of various backgrounds, specialisms and interests. Footnotes initially began as a series meet-ups, workshops and exhibitions which culminated in five zine publications produced by Josh Plough, each of which engaged with critical reflections on lived experiences and information gathered from an editorial board, outside critics and commentators. Each zine had a theme that was in line with, and overseen by, an editorial board member’s particular quality; for example, the built environment, big data or challenging power structures.

Eindhoven Footnotes has now evolved in structure to a mobile platform in the form of this trailer that will act both critically and speculatively while tracing the presence of technology in our smart city. The mobile platform will include an open source and public reference library, archive and research space with the intention to move in and around Eindhoven and beyond, serving as a base for our actions. It's from here that we expand out into the city.

Footnotes accommodates meet-ups of local participants of various backgrounds and external experts with an aim of stimulating skills in articulation, such as in methodology or style, as well as bringing particular factual knowledge to new and diverse pathways of understanding. Accordingly, through such lenses of design, writing, research, archeology and artistic practice, we explore and produce together. Collaboratively, we create an environment to understand our expressions of living that situate dialogues between inhabitors, leaders and creators alike. By formulating exhibitions and publications, we produce, preserve, expand and share this unique character. Through the liberal power of diversification, Footnotes provides and facilitates a space to contest the ethics of branded identities, top-down objectives, technological bubbles and more.

Datasets form a basis on which a city is made readable and interpretable foralgorithms, such as the those that process the endless streams of information coming from the cameras and sensors that stand scattered throughoutEindhoven. In this workshop, we will get acquainted with various ways in which data is collected and imagined. Who is being collected and what are the (dis)advantages of being represented? After an introduction into the types of biases that are inherent to their creation, we will combine hands-on work with pre-made scripts and discuss ways in which fiction and performance play a role in seeing like a dataset.

Please bring your laptop if you have one.

Exhibition opening of Ideal City and talk with curator Łukasz Trzciński about his approach to urban emancipation. 

In collaborative confrontation with Eindhoven Footnotes, Łukasz Trzciński’s project Ideal City looks at what the city is today or may be in the future. The talk will explore different cultural approaches to grassroots participation. Co-organised with Fundacja Imago Mundi. 

In collaborative confrontation with Eindhoven Footnotes, Łukasz Trzciński’s Krakow (PL) based project Ideal City looks at what the city is today or may be in the future. The talk will explore different cultural approaches to grassroots participation. Co-organised with Fundacja Imago Mundi.

Artists: Freja Bäckman, Łukasz Błażejewski [Prince Negatif], Pio Bujak, Henryk Makarewicz&Wiktor Pental, Krzysztof Maniak, Tomáš Moravec, Agnieszka Piksa&Vladimir Palibrk, Stanisław Ruksza, Łukasz Skąpski, Dominik Stanislawskiki, Jaro Varga

Guestcurator: Łukasz Trzciński
Footnotes host: Josh Plough

SEE PHOTO'S OF THE SHOW HERE

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Ideal City undertakes the challenge of a necessary actualisation of contemporary city concepts. In the propounded formula the city no longer works as a shell, a machine to live in or a management model vs a composition of complex human relationships. Therefore this approach not only tears away the right to shape the city from politicians or an urbanists’ privilege but radically shifts the sense of thinking about the city as a formation.

This approach oversteps the categories we typically use to historically understand concepts of the city. Emancipated from the hitherto regimes of mutual interdependencies the city becomes a compilation of entities. Ideal City is a city written from the perspective of the individual.

Ideal City treats the built environment not so much as an urban-architectural construct (for better or worse) but as a set of social relations (not contracts), whose character and tensions are determined by the entities that constitute a community. The reclaiming of the city in the Ideal City is embodied by shifting the attention from the dominant collective perspective to that of the individual. That is why artists’ voices summoned within the Ideal City capture the individual, not so much as a component of the community but by setting the gravity on its individuality and individual character towards the group. An emphasis is put on its dissimilarity and the subtlety of its nature.

The Ideal City is no longer a neoliberal system and machine of growth constantly reinventing itself. Therefore, the city space itself [symbolic or specific] becomes erased and universalised. It becomes secondary when pitted against the perspective of the individual. The city’s construct has based itself on the relation: the individual to another entity, the individual to other entities, the individual to the collective body. These relationships include the positions occupied by each other, including the fields of mutual exploitation.
Such an approach radically shifts attention from the regimes determining our coexistence on to the ways of cooperation, and thus the tensions generated between individual participants of a particular group. In the Ideal City the framework is not a supreme creation but a series of units that make sense of it. This calls for a constant revision and updating of the formula being constituted by themselves.

The Ideal City reveals at Onomatopee in Eindhoven a place of art invented and led by its environment. It forms the first showcase of the ongoing by continuously expanding its formula and research area — an exhibition; re-curated on every occasion and having its leaven in the digital format of idealcity.pl, for which the starting point was a multi-layered collection of photographs dedicated to a specific urban creation of Nowa Huta. The experience of a city designed from scratch as a particular alliance of politically involved urban planning (it’s worth asking if politically uninvolved exists at all?) and social engineering. The accumulation of the resultant series of afterimages of earlier urban scenarios served as a spark that initiated a deliberative, prospective discussion dedicated to the city in a universal perspective.

Generously supported by:
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Cultuur Eindhoven
Instytut Adama Mickiewicza

A public workshop for the Diagrams of Power / Onomatopee 168 exhbition, hosted by Onomatopee Projects, Onomatopee Footnotes and Public Visualization Lab

The world is watching Stratumseind as it has become an experiment in smart-city technology and public space. It is a bustling nightlife arena for citizens and visitors alike to collide, mingle and attach fond memories to place. Yet, its reputation for bar-fights has prompted an installing of crowd-sensors, cameras, and microphones in lamp-posts to detect aggressive behaviour.

Join us on a night audio-tour created with local university students about their personal memories of Stratum, and their feelings about the potential and risks of sensor surveillance in the city. The tour is an "algorithmic walk", where our route is guided by randomized instructions, to "scramble" the usual data fed to the lamp posts. On the tour, we will engage in conversation about our own experiences in Stratum, and leave stories behind with chalk along our route. The audio tour and pictures of the night-walk will be featured at Diagrams of Power/ Onomatopee 168 at Onomatopee Projects. Together, we hope to spark dialogue around what Stratum means to citizens, and the vision of city: how efficiency and safety can be negotiated with public space for difference, life and dissent.

The Public Visualization Lab is based in OCAD University, Toronto Canada.
We are a design and art research lab that employs visualization, curation, and storytelling as a critical media practice. We work alongside communities to represent social and environmental concerns through use of data, interaction and media technologies. We apply the representation of information as a political, ethical, and creative process for resilience-building within underrepresented communities in the digital age.


Diagrams of Power / Onomatopee 168
Diagrams of Power is an exhibition and publication that showcases critical artworks and projects that use data, diagrams, maps, and visualizations as ways of challenging dominant narratives and supporting the resilience of marginalized communities. Curated by Patricio Davila, Public Visualization Lab. On now at Onomatopee Projects.

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Made possible thanks to the generous support by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Faculty of Design at OCAD University, the Province of Noord-Brabant, Cultuur Eindhoven and the Mondriaan Foundation.

Onomatopee's Eindhoven Footnotes, in collaboration with the Ergoedhuis Eindhoven, would like to invite interested participants to join our first meeting that explores how archeological techniques can be used to track, trace and expose the presence of technology in our smart city. On Wednesday 3rd of we will be working together with the Heritage House to initiate a research project that asks:

What will our future selves be able learn from the digital remnants of contemporary culture?

The case study of Marcus van Eindhoven (https://bit.ly/2Y9GjsQ), a reconstruction of a 780 year old child, will be used as a catalyst for thinking about how we can approach our hyperconnected yet atomised present.

We are looking for around five people to join the project and contribute to a zine that will be printed at Onomatopee and released into Eindhoven for free. The project demands engaged participation, so we would like to stress that those who apply are willing to work together with us to produce something with integrity.

If you’re interested please email: josh(at)onomatopee.net

Eindhoven Footnotes is a grassroots project that investigates the lived experiences of citizens in a technocratic city. Through the lens of design, writing, researching, archeology and artistic practice the city will be dissected by an editorial board overseeing a group of participants of various backgrounds. There is a permanent, open source and public reference library and research space based at Onomatopee, which also serves as a base for our actions. It's from here that we expand out into the city.

To get a feel for the project please download the first zine here:

https://bit.ly/2We8ncY

Made possible thanks to generous support of Province of Noord-Brabant, The Creative Industries fund NL and the Municipality of Eindhoven.

Graphic design by Tea Ffr

On Saturday 30th of March from 1-5pm there will be a selection of launches and workshops related to printed matter at Onomatopee.

This month’s Super Book Saturday will feature the launch of Ted Hyunhak Yoon’s book Decoding Dictatorial Statues. Ted will introduce the collection of images and texts that revolve around the different ways we can look at statues in public space. The launch will coincide with a performance.

Then during a 20 minute talk the artist Pedro Bakker will discuss his publication Innocent under the title: How innocent to draw ‘China girls’? Bakker will be joined by the artist Mickey Yang who will interview him about the concept of ‘China girl’ used in his art while questioning if the title of David Bowie’s song is an objectionable post-colonial concept.

Towards the end of the day, from 3-5pm, students from the Design Curating & Writing Masters at the Design Academy Eindhoven will be running flash fiction workshops. Inspired by ordinary muses, like Bic pens and callipers, you’ll write 55 word stories that will be compiled into a small Riso-printed publication. If inspiration is lacking, the students will guide you on how to choose a muse that suits you.

Eindhoven Footnotes will also de distributing their zine Criticism in the City for free on the day. The permeant research space will also be open for those interested in exploring the relationship between technology and citizenship through objects and acts.

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Ted Hyunhak Yoon (b.1987) is a graphic designer-researcher based in Seoul(KR)∙Maastricht(NL). He graduated from MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art in London, UK. From April 2017 onwards, he is a participant of a residency programme in Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Design Curating & Writing is masters course rooted in the practice and performance of research through, about, and alongside design. It pursues a high level of quality, criticality, rigour, and depth in the act of research.

Foundland critically reflect on what it means to produce politically engaged, decolonial storytelling from their position as non-Western practitioners working between Europe and the Middle East.

Presented at Onomatoopee in the Framework Of Eindhoven Footnotes, organised by Design Academy Eindhoven and curated by Paolo Patelli, SITUATED PRACTICES: FAUX–ETHNOGRAPHY/WEIRD ARCHAEOLOGY is a series of performative lectures featuring artists and researchers making effective work out of non-fiction data, engaging in (quasi) anthropological fieldwork, adopting methods from ethnography and archaeology, combining the empirical and the imaginative.

Made possible thanks to the generous support of Cultuur Eindhoven and Creative Industries Fund NL.

Presented at Onomatoopee in the Framework Of Eindhoven Footnotes, organised by Design Academy Eindhoven and curated by Paolo Patelli, SITUATED PRACTICES: FAUX–ETHNOGRAPHY/WEIRD ARCHAEOLOGY is a series of performative lectures featuring artists and researchers making effective work out of non-fiction data, engaging in (quasi) anthropological fieldwork, adopting methods from ethnography and archaeology, combining the empirical and the imaginative.

In this second edition Femke Herregraven will be talking about all things financial; in relation to geological instability, biological and technological self-organising systems.

Femke Herregraven has a research-based practice in which she maps out abstract financial processes and considers their implications. Her work concerns the physical infrastructure that financial processes need in order to operate, as well as their grave ecological consequences. These processes create images only built from code. These 'images' are not meant for human eyes, but are translated into representations that are visible to us and understandable to a certain extent. Herregraven focuses on the position of the human in these mechanisms and thus makes the immeasurable abstraction of data visible on a human scale.

Made possible thanks to the generous support of Cultuur Eindhoven.

We all know the exploitive realities of Facebook yet still use it.

Come to Onomatopee this Sunday, gather around the fire and discover how to delete your Facebook account.

The only way to seek change and reclaim everyday life is to meet communally, discuss and delete.

Gluhwein and other drinks are available.
Art in exchange for participation.

Presented at Onomatopee in the Framework Of Eindhoven Footnotes, organised by Design Academy Eindhoven and curated by Paolo Patelli, SITUATED PRACTICES: FAUX–ETHNOGRAPHY/WEIRD ARCHAEOLOGY is a series of performative lectures featuring artists and researchers making effective work out of non-fiction data, engaging in (quasi) anthropological fieldwork, adopting methods from ethnography and archaeology, combining the empirical and the imaginative.

Giuseppe Licari’s work focuses on the cross-border of the natural world and the built environment, exploring the territories emerging from their encounters. His landscapes constitute places of memories, in which the emotions of single individuals become inevitably part of a collective experience.
Giulio Squillacciotti’s work is oriented on storytelling, cultural apexes and the way traditions re-shape in new contexts. His research merges together fiction and historical facts. Using film, documentary, sound and performance, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, storytelling, religion and popular culture.

Made possible thanks to the generous support of Cultuur Eindhoven.

Come and join the artist Jacqueline Schoemaker this Saturday, 24th, at 11am for a workshop that will dissect the city of Eindhoven.

Part of Eindhoven Footnotes, Not Knowing the City of Knowledge focusses on how you can experience and observe public space by walking a straight line through the city. Instead of following the pre-existing urban infrastructure, you walk like a ‘stranger’ and superimpose your own route onto the city. In this way, you add another layer to it, while at the same time your observations and experiences along the straight line provide material for pictures, maps and texts.

Please RSVP as soon as possible as places are limited and we encourage Dutch residents to sign up. Either PM or send an email to josh@onomatopee.net

The workshops will be conducted in English but Dutch can and will be spoken too.

All welcome, All free.

Onomatopee.

An open source tool that acts both critically and speculatively while tracking and tracing the presence of technology in our smart city.

Come to Onomatopee to discuss what a grassroots initiate can do to influence and analyse a designed technocratic city.

This is the first meeting tackling the topic of Criticism in the City and will see if any of our questions have been answered since our first outing into the great wide technological yonder.

The discussion is open to all members of the public who are concerned and interested in the lived experience of Eindhoven and the future of smart cities in general.

All Welcome, All Free.

Location

Onomatopee

An open source tool that acts both critically and speculatively while tracking and tracing the presence of technology in our smart city.

Come to Onomatopee to discuss what a grassroots initiate can do to influence and analyse a designed technocratic city.

This is the second meeting tackling the topic of Criticism in the City and will see if any of our questions have been answered since our first outing into the great wide technological yonder.

The discussion is open to all members of the public who are concerned and interested in the lived experience of Eindhoven and the future of smart cities in general.

All Welcome, All Free.

An open source tool that acts both critically and speculatively while tracking and tracing the presence of technology in our smart city.

Come to Onomatopee to discuss what a grassroots initiate can do to influence and analyse a designed technocratic city.

This is the first meeting tackling the topic of Criticism in the City and will see if any of our questions have been answered since our first outing into the great wide technological yonder.

The discussion is open to all members of the public who are concerned and interested in the lived experience of Eindhoven and the future of smart cities in general.

All Welcome, All Free.