Between 17 – 23 January 2010 transmediale, together with FLOSS

Manuals, hosted an experimental Book Sprint focussing on the festival
theme FUTURITY NOW!. The Book Sprint, an intensive and innovative
methodology for the rapid development of books saw five people locked
in a room in Berlin's IMA Design Village for five days to produce a
book with the sole guiding meme being the title – Collaborative
Futures. They had to create the concept, write the book, and output
it to print in 5 days.

Collaborative Futures was facilitated by Adam Hyde and written by
Mike Linksvayer, Alan Toner, Marta Peirano, Michael Mandiberg and
Mushon Zer-Aviv with a number of guests who contributed chapters and
passages. The process opened up a new and networked discussion
focusing on a new vocabulary of the forms, media and goals of
collaborative digital practice. As the transmediale.10 publication
the Book Sprint was based on an idea by Adam Hyde and Stephen Kovats to enact the festival notion of futurity in the form of a flash
publication.
Aleksandar Erkalovic in part developed and tested the alpha version
of the 'booki' collaborative platform live and on-site with which
'Collaborative Futures' was created.

The contents of the book are now available online, and a special
limited edition of 200 copies featuring a great cover designed by
Laleh Torabi will be available for sale during transmediale.10,
opening next Tuesday Feb 02, at the House of World Cultures in Berlin.

For an e-pub and pdf version:
http://www.transmediale.de/en/collaborative-futures

with some great pics and more info on the process at FLOSS Manuals:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/about

transmediale.10
FUTURITY NOW!
02 - 07 February 2010
House of World Cultures Berlin
http://www.transmediale.de
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