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oio news #27

28 Aug

Your monthly non-spammy-gif-heavy newsletter from your friends at oio.

🌸 new look!

Hello oio friends! Hope you’re having a good summer, but most importantly: 🚰 a hydrated one. It's been a scorcher, but that hasn't stopped us from juggling a whole bunch of exciting things, including:

💅 A full reboot of our newsletter (let us know what you think!)
🇮🇳 A week-long workshop in India
🍎 Putting the finishing touches on the first oio school
🗄️ Finalizing our 1-year residency at mudac Lausanne
🥙 Dreaming about the falafel we'll eat in Berlin during Hatch Conference
🤝 And last but not least—hiring new people!

It's a packed update, so grab a cool drink and dive into this fresh issue of oio news 🗞️

📰 oio news

peek into the oioverse

📣 content creators wanted!

We’re on the hunt for a new content creator to join the oio team! Could it be you? If you’ve got a knack for storytelling and a passion for building vibrant communities, we want to hear from you. As our content creator, you'll be the mastermind behind our communication strategies, spanning social media, Discord, newsletters, and beyond. This means you'll take the lead on everything from brainstorming creative concepts to crafting and executing killer content that resonates with our audience. This is a remote role with the option to work from one of our physical offices, depending on your location. You’ll be working within CET hours, but the impact you make will be felt far and wide.

Ready to write the next chapter of oio’s story?

🇮🇳 back from india

bjørn in pune, india

We’re back from Pune, India, where oio’s senior designer Bjørn Karmann led an inspiring workshop, “AI for Everyday Life,” in collaboration with the CIID Summer School! Bjørn worked with a group of ambitious students and industry professionals, guiding them through the process of using AI as a medium for storytelling. By the end of the workshop, the participants had brought a series of objects to life, using cutting-edge AI tools and prototyping hardware.

Stay tuned on our instagram for updates on our future workshops.

🍎 oio school is FULL!

tiny worm is happy

We’re thrilled to announce that all tickets for the oio school have sold out! 🎉 But don’t worry—if you still want to join 14 creative minds and the oio team for a week of hands-on tinkering and Italian aperitivos, we’ve got good news: tickets for the School Only tier are still available. Grab yours before they’re gone!

Check out all the info about the experience at oio.school. 🍎

💾 archivives

As some of you might recall, oio’s one-year residency at mudac—the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne—is drawing to a close. It’s been a lot of work, but also a ton of fun! In the coming weeks, we’ll be unveiling all the work we’ve done during this residency through a series of videos and posts on our socials. The highlight will be an installation at mudac, part of the larger exhibition Archives du Design Romand. Quels récits?, impeccably curated by Scott Longfellow. This exhibition at mudac offers an evolving platform that delves into the history and future of design in Switzerland's Romandy region. It features interactive elements and contributions from designers, historians, and AI, with a special focus on archiving, memory politics, and representing marginalized voices in the design world.

Our contribution to the exhibition is an installation called archivives, the culmination of a year-long residency where we explored the museum's archiving practices and the fleeting nature of design heritage.

join us for the vernissage:

📆 12/09/2024
🕕 6:00pm
📍 mudac, Lausanne

The opening vernissage will be on Thursday the 12th of September at 6pm, at the mudac in Lausanne. The oio team will be there!
If you can’t make it, no worries—the exhibition will be open until February 9th, 2025.

🌯 see you in berlin!

New conference alert! If you’re in Berlin on September 5-7, don’t miss the Hatch Conference, where Matteo, oio’s co-founder, will be speaking about "Intelligence as a Material."

Thinking of attending? Use code MATTEO10 for 10% off your ticket!

🌸 new look!

You guessed it—we've given our newsletter a major makeover! After much thought, we’ve decided to migrate from Buttondown, a platform we've held close to our hearts since our very first newsletter back in January 2021. Feeling nostalgic? Read it here. You can still browse all our old emails here.

Buttondown has been the perfect partner to kick off our journey, and we only have good things to say about it. But as our needs have grown, we’ve started to bump up against its limits. That’s why we’ve chosen to move to the slightly-more-structured Beehiiv.

We could geek out for hours about newsletter services, so if you’re curious to hear more, just DM us on Discord.