The Urban Studio, an great little organization that offers "design services which empower neighborly efforts toward sustainability" has a kick-starter campaign for a new project called Visual Voice.

Visual Voice aims to be a megaphone for a city-wide series of conversations at the neighborhood level. The results of the conversations will take visual form in an exhibition at City Hall, which will frame further symposium about neighborhood-led design.

By linking the efforts underway in the neighborhoods to those in progress at the City level, the project creates an opportunity for residents to inform the design criteria for future projects.

Click here to donate and read more about the project.

Go Philly neighborhoods!

We've had people come to our arduino classes from far and wide, so any of you Hacktory followers down near Baltimore, listen up! The local hackerspace there, Harford Hackerspace, is having a Netduino workshop this coming Wednesday. The fee is $35, which includes a Netduino, and the group has an inside connection with Secret Labs, the creators of Netduino.

Check out more details here and hack on!

On Wednesday, August 18 at 7pm, your friendly neighborhood hackerspace Hive76 and the Rotunda are teaming up to bring an illustrated lecture and movie teaser called “Hidden Her-story, the Top Secret Rosies of WWII”. Documentary filmmaker LeAnn Erickson will give this talk based on the research she’s done for her film “Top Secret Rosies” which is nearing post-production. This event will be a great place to hear about a special part of Philly history.

What: “Hidden Herstory: The Top Secret Rosies of WWII”, an illustrated lecture
When: Wed Aug 18, 2010, 7pm
Where: The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St, Phila
How much: Free admission, donations enthusiastically encouraged
http://www.hive76.org/the-women-of-eniac-aug-18

We want to give a huge shout out to our sister organization, Make:Philly for winning Philadelphia Magazine's Best of Philly 2010 award for the "place to free your inner nerd". The Hacktory wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Harris and all the other makers and inventors that have helped build the diy culture in our area. Congrats!

Join us today at the Fleisher Art Memorial for their annual community art fair! The whole block of Catherine Street between 7th and 8th will be closed down to make space for tons of booths and tents with opportunities to make cool stuff for free. The Hacktory will be there with plenty of parts for you to hack apart and ways to put them back together!

Saturday June 26 from 10 am - 4 pm

The 8static crew has been busy reinforcing the walls at Studio 34 and putting up fliers warning children and the elderly to steer clear of West Philadelphia on June 12th. Nullsleep is coming to town, and we can only hope our new soundsystem won’t be sucked into the spacetime rift created during his set. Opening for Nullsleep will be Philadelphia’s brave Magoni & Chaffel, followed by NYC’s Starscream. They’ll have time to flee before Nullsleep takes the stage, but enso & NO CARRIER were naive enough to think they could withstand doing visuals the entire night.

www.8static.com

(photo by Ben Mason)