Hackers & Designers
Hackers & Designers is a non-profit workshop initiative organizing activities at the intersection of technology, design and art. By creating shared moments of hands-on learning H&D stimulates collaboration across disciplines, technological literacy, and different levels of expertise.
Hackers & Designers currently consists of nine people of which eight form the ‘H&D COOP’, a decentralized organization form that distributes power over finances and decision making. The current H&D COOP members are Loes Bogers, André Fincato, Selby Gildemacher, Anja Groten, Heerko van der Kooij, Juliette Lizotte, Karl Moubarak, Pernilla Manjula Philip. Christine Kappé develops the H&D administrative and financial workflows that align with the flattened organizational structure.
The larger H&D community consists of a growing pool of international makers from diverse backgrounds. The aim of H&D is to stimulate and support exchange, learning and collaborations within this larger network of soft- and hardware developers, designers, artists, and researchers, and to create inspiring and encouraging spaces for the community to share skills, urgent topics, and interests, as well as concrete offers for commissions, exhibitions, guest lectures and workshop facilitation. The H&D network could also be described as a network of builders of software and/or hardware constructions but also pedagogical tools and tools for collaboration that enable critical engagement with, and through, technology.
Since 2019, H&D has been operating from a shared studio at the NDSM Loods in Amsterdam Noord. The H&D studio serves as a meeting space and provides the basic conditions to develop and host activities.
Every year H&D invites creative practitioners who are interested in critically and practically engaging with technology for an intensive 1-2 week workshop. Also the H&D Summer Academy operates in a non-hierarchical manner. Tutors become participants, participants become workshop tutors—everyone is taken on the collective venture of shared responsibility, bringing in their own expertise, urgency and experience. (2022)
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