It’s been a busy year for CETI as we build our incredible interdisciplinary community, programs, and lab and work on incredible events and projects with partners. We expanded our advanced learning in emerging technology, incredible workshops, collaborative experiments, demos, inspiring speakers, skill-sharing and performances.
Constellations
We held our third Constellations hackathon and show, The Universe is Watching, for the Portland Winter Light Festival. 50+ creators collaborated on 29 magical installations and experiences for 4000+ visitors!
Sound SPA
We had an incredibly successful inaugural CETI SPA (Spring Break Adventures in Learning)—our first Sound SPA—an intensive week filled with experiments, talks, hands-on workshops, and opportunities for collaborative learning and creations.
Teardown
We hosted the open-source hardware conference Teardown in collaboration with Crowd Supply with 30+ workshops, speakers, discussions, demos, and installations from all over the world.
Summer Institutes at RAHS
We lead a three-week summer institute at RAHS where students learned cutting-edge video and sound techniques and collaboratively-created unique, hilarious, and brilliant videos
Enchanted Technology Festival of Institutes
We held our annual Summer Enchanted Technology Festival of Institutes—five exciting weeks of 30+ workshops, speakers, generative design and ideation sessions and collaborative experimentation in creative and emerging technology for over 100 students, educators, artists, technologists, professionals, and community members.
CETI Lab
We supported and engaged a diverse community in our cutting-edge lab staffed by professional experts volunteering time. We had over 800 visitors to our community lab hours and open houses.
Each year, an interdisciplinary collective of CETI members collaborates on projects and critical dialogue to create something unique together—a lovely model for skill-sharing, experiential learning, and powerful creation and innovation. This year, we focussed on environmental justice and community history.
Postcards From Our Resilient Future
We received an NEA Community Placemaking Grant to work on Postcards from Our Climate Resilient Future—an augmented community engagement/environmental justice project on climate resilience with the Multnomah County Office of Sustainability. We held several intergenerational community generative design sessions this spring and summer to create a prototype—a series of postcards (funded partially by a USDN grant).
XRchive: Block 14
We are continuing to work on XRchive, our augmented storytelling around migrations and displacements in Portland collaborating closely with the regional Chinese community for an XR storytelling of the Chinese families buried at Block 14 at the Lone Fir Cemetery.
New Website
We launched our new website to share all this incredible work. We were delighted to work with Council, a design agency with roots in Portland and who have designed world class products both locally (TriMet) and internationally (Mozilla, Spotify, CalTech…)
