This Inspires Us 2014…

by MAGDALENA LEITNER

This year’s Ars Electronica Festival is set for September 4-8. It’s being conceived as “a festival of extraordinary, creative, innovative ideas,” in the words of Ars Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker. “This will be a celebration of people and the amazing concepts they come up with.”

Two examples of incredible projects that Gerfried Stocker cites as sources of inspiration for this year’s festival theme, “C … what it takes to change,” are Projekt Daniel and Solar Mamas. “These two examples inspire me because both have a lot to do with technology, albeit technologies that, basically, the way they’re used in these projects, are pretty simple. When it comes to finding examples of how technology can strengthen and develop human beings and communities, these two examples come to mind first of all.” And that’s reason enough to take a closer look at them.

Read about Project Daniel: Prostheses from the 3-D printer and The Solar Mamas of Rajasthan on the Ars Electronica blog.