AltLab - Audiência Zero
| AltLab - Audiência Zero | |
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| Status | closed |
| Country | Portugal |
| State or District | Lisbon |
| City | Lisbon |
| Last Updated | 2025-05-22 |
| Website | http://www.altlab.org |
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| Number of members | 0 |
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| Location | 38° 43' 17.59" N, 9° 7' 55.75" W |
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AltLab was a collective dedicated to independent research and experimentation in alternative media. Community-based and community-building by nature, it sought to promote active participation, knowledge sharing, and collaboration among individuals such as artists, programmers, engineers, hobbyists, scientists, and all those who wished to freely explore creative and emancipatory uses of technology. Just like many other hackerspaces which had emerged all over the world in recent years, AltLab had also been founded on the notions of software/hardware libre and the belief in collective independent platforms for open and active knowledge-sharing and experimentation.
In February 2009, a group of interested individuals, under the umbrella of Audiência Zero, joined efforts to create AltLab with the following objectives: Built stronger community ties by gathering disperse cells of researchers, artists, and DIYers around a common and open platform; Provided a shared physical space for experimentation, testing, and development of new objects and concepts (ranging from robotics to software to art to conceptual research); Shared knowledge, supported collaborative work, and collectively pushed the boundaries of DIY creativity; Established partnerships and synergies within and across the borders with other collectives that shared similar goals and ideals. To achieve these goals AltLab:
- Provided a collective workspace
- Organized, on a regular basis, public workshops, conferences, paper presentations, exhibitions, talks, debates, etc.
- Offered open lab days where all interested individuals were welcome to join with the purposes of: just learning about the project, presenting proposals and ideas, working with the group
- Consistently expanded the collective by accepting new members and collaborators as well as establishing partnerships with other organizations
- Maintained a high level of openness and flexibility to ensure that AltLab’s projects and activities were limited only by the commitment and enthusiasm of those involved and could be easily extended beyond those initial activities
Altlab was officially hibernated and closed on 2025/05/22
