The Wanted and For Sale Office run by the kom.post collective is a place where visitors are asked what they have to give and what they want. With the Office becoming a living artwork by each participating individual, each request and offer is displayed in the Office so that exchange partners can be found.
Individual tours and audio guides can also be found at the Wanted & For Sale Office. Visitors can even make their own audio tours and personalised festival booklets for themselves or other people to use. 

In this workshop members of the group HONF teach science through an artistic approach in order to demonstrate that science doesn’t have to be expensive, dangerous or inaccessible nor only possible with a lab. Participants will learn how to make their own slant culture, colour it with natural dyes and make a test tube rack from paper. At the end everyone is invited to take their slant culture home and pass on the experience, technique and culture to others.

Somali pirate fashion is the new trend for a new generation of rurbans (rural urbane). Take part in the process of production of the WOPPOW by WOPPOW fashion line - preproduced garments and accessories directly brought to you from the nairobi district of Kibera and Eastleigh as well as fashion items from Puntland, Somalia are waiting to be brought to a climax of style by fine European hands. Plus: video material needs editing and shall be transformed into WOPPOW's new advertising line.
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Our identities are redefined as diffused, open and emergent, perceivable yet elusive, ephemeral yet drastically present, single yet multiple, localised yet ubiquitous. During the workshop participants will create a connective emergent "Identity" from scratch.

As a follow up of the workshop Reclaim the Screens! during transmediale.10 and based on the Media Facades Festivals Berlin 2008 and Europe 2010 we explore how artists, curators and creative people can utilise the urban screens infrastructure as social vision panels. What is the communicative, intercultural potential of public screens? Which socio-aesthetic forms of interaction enable a dialogue between different local scenes, how can we engage the public in the creative process to contribute to local community building?

Moving towards a democratisation of digital radio, cheaper digital transmission technologies allow individuals to access an otherwise rather exclusive communication system. Mathias Coinchon of the European Broadcasting Union shows workshop participants techniques and tools for alternative and independent radiomaking.

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Public space does not end at the borders of the visible. In form of a workshop and presentation, the technologies and techniques of how to read the plethora of signal in the air, manipulate it and pass it on will be adressed.

The Free Culture Incubator, a workshop and networking programme for independent creative and cultural producers was established at the last transmediale and has since developed into a bustling Berlin platform for Free Culture and the Open Net. Since October 2010, a 12-month series of workshops on topics such as Open Design, business models in the Free Culture sphere, etc., has been running, which is one of the most important initiatives of the FCI.
In today’s workshop, the initiators and project partners present their plans for the period until summer 2011, taking suggestions and requests for sessions from participants.

Flattr is a new online platform that provides a new revenue stream for content creators as it helps consumers to make (small) donations in a straight-forward and uncomplicated way. It works by Flattr users paying a small flatrate fee and creators placing a Flattr button on their websites: every month the user's fee is divided between the creators in relation to how many websites he clicked.
Flattr founder Peter Sunde is joined by the rest of the Flattr team at transmediale.11 to present the platform. Workshop participants will get hands on help and support with the technical intergration of Flattr into their platforms.

Aspiration helps individuals and NGOs design appropriate online models and messages to engage interested stakeholders and supporters. It publishes a range of open-licensed processes and templates for planning and managing online efforts, and workshop participants will be invited to try and learn new tools and tactics for impactful online organising and campaigning.

Open Zone, Response:Activities - Workstation

Calling the game input the “controller” was the first lie. In fact, games control us – and we like it.
Controlled Invasion is a vehicle for drawing attention to the liberating, enthralling, gratifying and, yes, dangerous power of interactive games. The workshop leaders will engage their guests and distant collaborators to build a framework of game design ethics that recognises the equal measures of pleasure and peril inherent to this persuasive medium. Thorsten and Heather will interview experts in art and technology about the human body, spirituality, and social philosophy.

The Booki Mobile takes book making to the next step and will be at transmediale.11 from 1 – 6 February. Here you can make real printed copies of your books! Moreover, Adam Hyde, one of the creators of Booki, will be hosting a workshop on Friday 4 February where you can learn more about Booki.

Facebook – worth more than 30 billion US$ – is taking over the social web, and its uniform design follows Mark Zuckerberg's ideals. What if you could change Facebook's laws, add a Dislike button or create custom backgrounds? You can!
Preregistered workshop participants will learn how browser extensions (e.g. Firefox Add-Ons) enable us to locally modify Facebook and distribute it to the masses.
In the presentation on Saturday Tobias Leingruber presents the experimental and artistic Facebook hack concepts to festival visitors before turning these concepts into a real software that users worldwide can download and share.

Lately creative enterprises and their codes of conduct have moved from the periphery to centre stage with communication between the “old economy” policy makers and creative entrepreneurs increasing significantly. Shapeshifters sees a huge potential in new investment models and resources. To ensure the benefitting of the common good, since 2006 Shapeshifters has been working on a global research project developing a mapping of Creative Tribes and Value Zones for more sustainable connections between creative producers and investors. In this pre-registered workshop Eric Pöttschacher will present his research results to the public for the first time.

Calling the game input the “controller” was the first lie. In fact, games control us – and we like it.
Controlled Invasion is a vehicle for drawing attention to the liberating, enthralling, gratifying and, yes, dangerous power of interactive games. The workshop leaders will engage their guests and distant collaborators to build a framework of game design ethics that recognises the equal measures of pleasure and peril inherent to this persuasive medium. Thorsten and Heather will interview experts in art and technology about the human body, spirituality, and social philosophy.

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet. Mozilla Drumbeat is a new initiative of the foundation. It is a global community of people who steward the open web, explaining and protecting the internet as a critical public resource.

This workshop represents an opportunity for participants to learn more about Mozilla Drumbeat and get individual consultancy on their own concrete plans and projects.

Pre-registration is required.

Wikipedia is an example for how Open Culture has developed inspiring text-based collaborative models whilst successful models for open collaboration on visual culture remain an exception. With a book, a blog and a set of workshops Wikipedia Illustrated seeks to develop a methodology for contributing creative-commons licensed illustrations to Wikipedia.
In their workshop and discussion Galia and Mushon will address central questions around the lacking and dated visual appearance of Wikipedia and also reveal certain surprising and complicated dynamics of Open Culture.

What if Kafka's Internet suddenly came true and text were suddenly undecipherable as too many algorithms cancel out each other’s choice of uncensored words and all online communication were limited to emoticons?
These are the ideas behind interACTicons, a project enacting and visualising our online habits through the collection and performance of JPGs, GIFs and videos by Ursula Endlicher that comprises of an online archive, several hands-on workshops and a final participatory performance.

Friedrich Lindenberg from Liquid Democracy e.V and the Open Knowedge Foundation invites workshop participants to openly discuss opportunities and challenges of web-based political discourse. Friedrich will present some of the theoretical concepts which Liquid Democracy e.V have developed along with some of their practical applications such as Adhocracy, a prototype policy-making platform. Participants are invited  to present their own visions of cooperative policy, legislative  processes and tools, and to discuss critiques and specific case studies.

In a four-hour workshop, the gannaca Think Tank will examine heavy and weightless products as well as analogue and digital models in detail. The examination will focus on the quality of the materials used – commodities, advanced materials, and processing components – and their particularities.

This walk-in workshop provides the chance to meet the people behind the Open Knowledge Foundation, a UK not-for-profit that expanded into Germany in mid 2010. Daniel Dietrich, the representative of OKF Germany, will give examples of projects where the foundation helped to bring open standards. Participants will learn about different forms of knowledge transfer and various approaches towards creating open access to knowledge.

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