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The conference „Digital Backyards Japan“ has been initiated by smal.jp and berlinergazette.de. It took place during three days of January 2013 (10th-12th) in northern Japan at the Sapporo Media Arts Lab. The aim was to explore future forms of networking in the field of knowledge production.
The awareness towards the digital monopolism of companies based in Silicon valley is growing all over the world. Also in Japan. But what are alternatives to Google and Facebook? The conference „Digital Backyards Japan“ claims: The answer can not be yet another internet giant of Japanese origin to rival Google and Facebook. A real alternative would be to empower diversity.
The resources for alternatives to an increasingly centralized internet landscape lie dormant in Japan's diversity itself: tinker garages, corporate hotbeds, grassroots hubs, institutional labs, hacker bedrooms, editorial outposts etc. In those digital backyards various stakeholders in the field of knowledge production have been pursuing their innovative work over the last decades. However its potential has not been exhausted yet.
What can be done about this? The conference invited open minded bloggers, entrepreneurs, researchers, cultural workers, journalists and programmers to explore synergies between their work. Here they discussed: Why do we network in the first place? What do we see as emerging trends? What are up and coming web services? What is the potential of decentralized strategies?
The motivation of the conference is to think and network beyond the given (e.g. infrastructures) and the dominant (e.g. cultures). Above all it is about exploring dormant potentials: How can Japan's digital backyards catalyse networking cultures in a sustainable way? How can they revitalize a country in deep crisis? And how can they help to connect Japan anew with world society?
„Digital Backyards Japan“ was a kick off event for more meetings in Japan/Asia and a follow up of a Berlin summit in October 2012. The spontaneous proliferation of the conference enables a fruitful process of cross-regional learning from: Insights from the debates in Europe are shared in Japan/Asia and vice versa.
documentation of the Berlin conference:
berlinergazette.de/digi-yards-documentation
program of the Berlin conference:
berlinergazette.de/digital-backyards
Photo Credit: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi (Mayer Planning Office/ City of Sapporo, SMAL), Chris Piallat (Alliance '90/The Greens), Krystian Woznicki (berlinergazette.de)
I have learned to listen for birds. Tonight when I arrived home I heard a familiar sound from a nearby tree. A flock of about thirty Bohemian Waxwings was singing excitedly from a large tree. With some patience I was able to catch them in my crab apple tree.
My snowy backyard. Couldn't get a better pic- this was taken from the doorway cause I'm too lazy to put on shoes.
Someone asked me how big is my backyard?? Anyways, here it is!! This is only half of it, the other half is about the same or slightly bigger.
Last Saturday I made 55 jars of jams and jellies!* It took me about 5+ hours on day 2, day 1 was sterilizing jars, inventoring last years frozen fruit, jars, lids, ingredients, configuring recipes, creating a shopping list...
I made 7 different flavors. All would have been jam (as I love all the fruit goop to be included) but several flavors left me no choice but to "jelly" them. One was mulberry, that has TOO MANY MEN TO PICK!!!! The other was my first experiment to work with wild violet flowers, you don't want dead flowers in your jam...
1) wild violet/pink currant * "wild violet & pink currant jelly"
2) rhubarb * "green seaweed jam" (cause it looks like seaweed!)
3) strawberry * "fat strawberry jam"
4) black currant * "black currant hill jam"
5) our wild raspberries * "backyard (rasp)berry jam"
6) store bought blackberries * "fat blackberry jam"
7) mullberry * "black purple mullberry jelly"
From my backyard today. The robin's egg was found on the ground and is empty. The "pearl" has a soft shell with liquid interior, was found underground, and I'd guess it's some kind of egg. Can anyone identify it? Webster Groves, Missouri.
And you were expecting a chicken coop!
I think my new tattoo is almost healed. It's been just over a week and it's itchy. It was nice out again today, nice enough for me to put my suit on and sit on the back deck without freezing so here you have it. I wore this bathing suit bottom when I got it and realized it is a lot lower than most of my other suits so it may only show a bit. Eh.
Here you will see the artist doing the work.
So SM. Just what about it can't you believe? I'm curious. That I got a tattoo at all? Or at my age? Where it is located? The design? Tell me. . .
SKC? Your issue? Perhaps that I said I would never get a tattoo at all? Like I said, I guess one should never say never.
CVP? Your comment? P1280397