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== Con-figuring With Others ==
Talk/discussion @ Kulturverein zur Schießhalle</br>
Wednesday 26 Nov </br>
18:00 ‑ 20:00 </br>

==== Project Description ====
What if we shift our thinking about "tool making practices" towards a practice of "configuring with others"? What shifts? And what stays the same? How does this emphasize the entangled mode of distributed collaboration that emerges when you start to build tools on top of a range of existing ones? Who do you configure with? How? And where do frictions emerge?

Tool making has formed a vibrant subculture within the field of design in which designers make tools that change the way they work. These custom made design tools shift who you can collaborate with and how, but also who you are relying on in terms of underlying infrastructure. They are built on top of many different pieces made by a whole range of tool makers, often published as Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). Because of this, tool making is not "just" a sub-culture within the field of design. Instead, it operates as an open ended and cross-disciplinary practice, that crosses paths with a range of other fields and cultures, such as software development and server administration but also collective work and self-organisation. Practices and cultures from which designers both learn and diverge from.

In this panel we will present our own tool practices, how they relate to others and whom those others are that we configure our tools with.

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{{:Creative Crowds CC}}
{{:Francesco Luzzana (Kamo)}}
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