Biohack Retreat Klöntal 2017

by dusjagr and Hackteria.org

Glarus and Zürich

Biohacking is Citizen Science! With YOU we enable this unique global gathering of biohackers and artists to give you an insight of how an open collaborative exchange can rethink the world we live in.

CHF 18’287

243% of CHF 7’500

243 %
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The «all or nothing» principle applies: The project only receives the funds if the funding target is reached or exceeded.

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Successfully concluded on 16/9/2017

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Dear Klöntalians,

it’s been a while and we all have still great memories of the retreat in Klöntal…. See the video above for some impressions.

we are super happy about how many friendships have been formed, new collaborations continued and knowlege been shared across the globe.

And we are super happy to announce a project that has been spawned during the Klöntal Reatreat. See HUMUS.Sapiens - Open Soil Research, by Julian Cholet, Maya Minder and dusjagr.

Again we have reached out to our networks to support a series of smaller retreats and workshops around the topic of «Open Soil Research» using wemakeit and Science Booster.

It has only 4 more days to go for the campaign and we would need your help to reach our goal. https://wemakeit.com/projects/humus-sapiens

hope to see you all again! Marc

Now it's starting... Thank you!!!By dusjagr, on 18/09/2017

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Preparations on 200full power!
Preparations on 200full power!

THANK YOU!!!!!


!!!! wemadeit !!!!


And now it’s starting!

We are on full power preparing the Biohack Retreat Klöntal. Thanks to all of you who trusted in our vision and supported the project! Hugs are coming soon…


For all active Participants and Visitors! Please check your inbox, and see if you have received the invitation to our discussion forum. and go here, introduce yourselves and make sure you find all information needed. http://forum.hackteria.org/c/hackterialab/klontal-biohack-retreat

We will send out an email to everybody, who is on our list of participation with muuuuch more information about how to get there, where to sleep, what to bring and questions to you!

please get into contact with us if you have any question: biohackretreat@gmail.com

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Now that we reached our first target, let’s aim for more stretch goals to share and present our experiences from the retreat to other places of this planet and to our homebase in Zürich.

Help us to support our guests to stay a few more days, feed them, host them, and enable public diffusion events, extra travels, virtual web-links and a small party.

WE ARE COMING TO ZURICH – NEW REWARD AVAILABLE !!!

Will we host you on the evening of the 26th. September with snacks, (free) beer, presentations and a little party in Dock18, Raum für Medienkulturen der Welt, Zürich! Thx to Dock18 for being a Global Ambassador backer of this campaign! http://dock18.ch

Thanks to our friends in Zürich, we now have the chance to continue working 3 more days in the project room of the «+electronnes | Women, Art & Tech Festival». From Monday - Wednesday, 25-27. Sep, we will hack, share and document our experiments from the retreat. A public open lab for you to come and visit every day from 13-18h, in the +electronnes projectroom, Dynamo, Zürich. https://electronnes.ch/

AND THE REST OF THE WORLD…

Virtual tunnel to BioSummit @ MIT, Boston

The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab is organizing a Global Summit on Community Biotechnology at the same time as our retreat. Many of our friends and partners in the biohacking world will be there and we are setting up a virtual tunnel to exchange and connect. Help us to set up this connectivity in the remote region of Klöntal. We need your support to set-up a decent connection!


Radio to Pixelache «LOCAL & DECENTRALISED», Helsinki

The Pixelaches festival’s topic of this year is «Local & Decentralised» and we are setting up a radio connection between the two locations, which happens at the same time as our retreat. Help us getting the infrastructure and technical support team to do so!


Participate at Nordic Biolabs Network «siNbiozė», Vilnius

A new DIYBio network is emerging in Nordic and Baltic region which connects the researchers, makers, artists, scientists. We are invited to send one or two of our participants of the Biohack Retreat Klöntal to the next meeting held on 29/30. Sep in Vilnius, Lithuania, to share our experiments and reflections with the local groups. Help us supporting the travel and accommodation to do so!

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What a nice start into the week! We have reached our first funding target of 7.5k and thus got extra backing through the Science Booster. So we are ready and rolling and can now work in full flow towards our vision of the Biohack Retreat Klöntal, starting next week.

Thanks to all the supporters, ambassadors, fans, connaisseurs and early decisions to participate!

#################################################### Participants, friends, visitors - Let’s start talking

To prepare your visit, to start sharing ideas, to get to know each other and to plan our logistics, we need to get into contact NOW.

Please to all those who backed the project as participants, let’s get into contact and send us a mail: biohackretreat@gmail.com

We want to carefully plan our Retreat and guarantee a great experience together.


Join our Forum! Meet the Participants! See our Schedules!

Please also join our Forum to follow the discussions: http://forum.hackteria.org/c/hackterialab/klontal-biohack-retreat

We are constantly updating info on the wiki: https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/Klöntal

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We have been featured as the «Unsere Lieblinge» aka «we fancy» on wemakeit frontpage! A bug hug to all the people who made this wemakeit platform, work behind the screens and on the streets!

As this will give us an even wider visibility, let’s put share more details about the upcoming Biohack Retreat Klöntal.

When exactly are we doing what? When should I come to visit?

For all visitors and curious friends, who want to learn what we have been up to, especially Saturday, 23. September is dedicated to YOU. Come the night before to listen to the valley, stay and eat with us.

Come for workshops, shared learning expriences, open labs and guided field-trips on Saturday.

Overview #################################### Day 1: Wed 20. Sept. - LANDING arriving in the valley of Klöntal, settling in, getting to know each other, start hacking and discussing, cooking and sleeping

Day 2: Thur 21. Sept. - EXPLORING going out for hikes, field-trips, exploring the surroundings, investigating the fauna and coming back to the house inspired

Day 3: Fri 22. Sept. - PERFORMING experimenting, collaborating, dancing, listening jamming, hacking

Day 4: Sat 23. Sept. - SHARING hosting friends and the generally curious, sharing and co-learning

Day 5: Sun 24. Sept. - CARING waving good bye, cleaning, reflecting, wrapping up ##########################################

Post-Retreat program in Zurich? stay tuned…

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What a great and exciting first 3 days running this campaign. we almost reached 50% of our goal and still 11days and 16hours to go…. keep clicking.

Thanks to all of you who supported us sofar. And great to see such a diverse group of participants growing everyday.

You wanna see more about who is coming to Klöntal? See our detailed list constantly being updated on our wiki: https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/Kl%C3%B6ntal_Biohack_Retreat_-_Switzerland_2017#Kl.C3.B6ntal_Biohack_Retreat_People

So make sure you reserve your visit yourself and get those Early Bird Observer tickets or join us as full participant.

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