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A Lab is Amsterdam's ultimate living lab, combining the strength of Amsterdam's creative scene, technological prowess and free thinking spirit into a 5000m2 hothouse for bleeding edge experimentation.

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Viktorija Balodis, Marketing intern at A Lab Amsterdam, posted

Think Future Today #1: Avoiding human-robot collision

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What do we need to consider today to be able to trust technology to take over so many roles and responsibilities in our lives and avoid deadly collision with our creations?

In this meetup, we are going to discuss different aspects we need to consider today to be able to trust technology to take over so many roles and responsibilities in our lives and avoid deadly collision with our creations.

Our THINK FUTURE TODAY series are born from many conversations we have when talking about the development of skills of the future. Each and every time we hear different questions, concerns, ethical dilemma’s and challenges the advancement of technology and AI brings. Together with A Lab and Visual Notes, we decided to create a space to talk about it with each other. Not expert focussed, but reflection and dialogue driven. In the end, we want to THINK TODAY what FUTURE we want to be part of tomorrow.

This meetup is free of charge, but we have a limited capacity, so please register ONLY if you are SURE you will be joining. We will use English for the introduction, but you will be able to speak both English or Dutch during the discussions. http://bit.ly/tft2018

Event on Apr 23rd
Viktorija Balodis, Marketing intern at A Lab Amsterdam, posted

Looking for an Event & Community Intern to join A Lab

A Lab is searching for an intern that wants to invest in his future self. Are you ready to join a wonderful adventure starting the end of May?

What you’ll do:
- Learn to manage social media platforms
- Work on newsletters and other communication tools
- Understand the client’s needs behind various events and meet their requirements
- Take care of various administrative tasks like scheduling agenda’s, events, catering, venue, technology, furniture.
- Help to plan and implement events from and for A Lab members
- Brainstorm new ideas and always try to find ways to improve things
- Have fun doing the internship

What you’ll need:
- Passion for events organizing
- Exceptional communication and writing skills
- Flexibility to jump between tasks and stay focused
- Openness to meet new people and work with awesome teams
- Desire to learn
- Proactivity in daily activities
- English knowledge

What we’ll provide:
- A (4-6 months) learning experience in an inspiring creative & innovative workspace with a community of more than 300 active members working in art&culture, music, visual, robotics, journalism, game design, music, photography and much more.
- Possibility to work in A Lab: Amsterdam's ultimate living lab, combining the strength of Amsterdam’s creative scene, technological prowess and free-thinking spirit into a 5000m2 hothouse for bleeding edge experimentation.

Are you the one? Email info@a-lab.nl your CV and a short motivation (±400 words).

Request
Viktorija Balodis, Marketing intern at A Lab Amsterdam, posted

Open Vertical Farm Tour

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Want to know all about hands-on Vertical Farming? Join our open tour! Every third Tuesday of the month in A Lab, from the 4 pm meet at The Coffee Virus.

A Lab Vertical Farm explores the way we will grow food in the 21st century. How can new technologies help us build a more sustainable, clean and safe ecosystem around food production and consumption? The crops from this farm will be used by The Coffee Virus. The data collection will add to our future knowledge base. Next to this, the farm will also educate 500 children about the future of food and healthy living.
Check out this informative movie for more info: https://vimeo.com/232490917

Want to become a vertical farmer and volunteer in this amazing project? Email info@a-lab.nl for info and an invitation to the next meeting. We already have an amazing list of people that are helping, but are always looking for more!

+ RSVP by emailing info@a-lab.nl.

Event on Apr 17th
Viktorija Balodis, Marketing intern at A Lab Amsterdam, posted

Monthly Indieweb Homebrew Club Meetup #4

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Learn how to create your own website from scratch!
We would like to invite you to participate in the Indieweb Homebrew Website Club Meetup, hosted in A Lab on every third Wednesday of the month. Indie Web Camp is an international organization of volunteers who teach web literacy and promote the indieweb principles. Martin Lopatka (Lab 004 in A Lab) works for Mozilla who have long been advocates of an inclusive and healthy Internet. Together with A Lab, Martin, and the indieweb community, we are happy to announce the next Indie Web Homebrew Website Club meetup in Amsterdam.

The event is free and open to anyone that wants to learn how to build a website.

We are also looking for volunteers that can help in guiding the participants. Do you know HTML, CSS, a little bit of JavaScript? Want to share your knowledge, or just get to know some like-minded folks? let us know!

Date: Wednesday, April 11

Time: 6.30 - 10pm

For more details, you can send an email to info@a-lab.nl.

Event on Apr 11th
Viktorija Balodis, Marketing intern at A Lab Amsterdam, posted

Launch of the The Urban Commons of Culture, Past & Present

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A new online platform for reflection and exchange on how culture and creativity can thrive in cities in an open and inclusive way.

Confirmed speakers:
- Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the Price School, recent book The Sum of Small Things. A Theory of the Aspirational Class)
- Tim Verlaan (assistant professor, Urban History, University of Amsterdam, recent book De ruimtemakers. Projectontwikkelaars en de Nederlandse binnenstad 1950-1980)
- Roel Griffioen, (journalist/PhD researcher, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, recent book De Frontlinie: Bestaansonzekerheid en gentrificatie in de Creatieve Stad)

- Panel discussion chaired by Marielle Hendriks of De Boekmanstichting, including representatives from local arts, culture, and creative industries (Vera de Jong Urban Connectors and Lucas Hendricks (A-Lab).

Event on Apr 4th
Arpad Gerecsey, Director/Chief Innovation Officer/Board member at A Lab Amsterdam, posted

Internships at Vertical Farm in A Lab

One of our members, OneFarm, a vertical farm initiative, is looking for 3 interns. Design , Research and Project. Can you help them out?

OneFarm's goal is to provide affordable fresh healthy food to local communities on a global scale to mitigate the upcoming food crisis.
To that end OneFarm implements large scale vertical farms together with local partners to ensure food security for all parts of the population.
We believe community relationships are key to providing long term sustainable food security. It also ensures community support, access to sites for development, inclusion of local agricultural knowledge and industries, local institutional support, employment, distribution.
Localization opportunities in a global context will also allow South-South food chain development in regions that are disaster prone and climate change affected.

We are looking for interns! Join our dynamic and passionate team.

3 new internships! Join OneFarm's team working with the world’s leading network of experts to provide affordable fresh healthy food and plant pharmaceuticals to local communities on a global scale to mitigate the upcoming food crisis. OneFarm internship program will provide you with exceptional experience, extensive knowledge and access to the incredible network of the fast-growing field of vertical farming, and potential employment prospect at OneFarm! If you are ready to join our vibrant startup, check the different positions: Design , Research and Project Assistants!

Check out the positions in https://www.onefarm.io/ on careers section, or through the links below:

Design assistant:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OBOuXAGuQCuX7niwR9jjgkkL5aX1N7uvllh8ZnRNtAg/edit?usp=sharing
Project assistant:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZYDdxsUxXTZRzZASoxkovHqbk-bwZ700jWS2YvffTxI/edit?usp=sharing
Research assistant:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lns2ETAlN7FaxHmJkaepxAmSowJJZa0oKtkUPVDATzs/edit?usp=sharing

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Viktorija Balodis, Marketing intern at A Lab Amsterdam, posted

Monthly Open Vertical Farm Tour

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Want to know all about hands-on Vertical Farming? Join our open tour! Every third Tuesday of the month in A Lab, from the 4 pm meet at The Coffee Virus.

A Lab Vertical Farm explores the way we will grow food in the 21st century. How can new technologies help us build a more sustainable, clean and safe ecosystem around food production and consumption? The crops from this farm will be used by The Coffee Virus. The data collection will add to our future knowledge base. Next to this, the farm will also educate 500 children about the future of food and healthy living.
Check out this informative movie for more info: https://vimeo.com/232490917

Want to become a vertical farmer and volunteer in this amazing project? Email info@a-lab.nl for info and an invitation to the next meeting. We already have an amazing list of people that are helping, but are always looking for more!

+ RSVP by emailing info@a-lab.nl.

Event on Mar 20th
Viktorija Balodis, Marketing intern at A Lab Amsterdam, posted

Monthly Open Vertical Farm Tour

Featured image

Want to know all about hands-on Vertical Farming? Join our open tour! Every third Tuesday of the month in A Lab, from the 4 pm meet at The Coffee Virus.

A Lab Vertical Farm explores the way we will grow food in the 21st century. How can new technologies help us build a more sustainable, clean and safe ecosystem around food production and consumption? The crops from this farm will be used by The Coffee Virus. The data collection will add to our future knowledge base. Next to this, the farm will also educate 500 children about the future of food and healthy living.
Check out this informative movie for more info: https://vimeo.com/232490917

Want to become a vertical farmer and volunteer in this amazing project? Email info@a-lab.nl for info and an invitation to the next meeting. We already have an amazing list of people that are helping, but are always looking for more!

+ RSVP by emailing info@a-lab.nl.

Event on Feb 20th