# Having Friends in The Future 2020 - Project Overview (En)
[中文版連結](https://hackmd.io/YdUl1r-nRkSM9S4HjxXNRA?view)

"Having Friends in the Future 2020" (HFF) provides a culture exchange platform and invites multi-cultural remote participants to explore tradition and innovation. The platform is expected to continue to serve as a medium for exchanges and to foster friendships in the future. In addition to our scheduled video sharings, online discussions, exchange of swatches, we are inviting remote participants “reside” in our online residency platform. We design a format of an artist in residency to let people sharing the particular perspective in the universal lingua franca. We hope the works that come out from this exchange won’t be a collage of different techniques but a work that undergoes a translation process. The process takes into account the cultural context and the constraint/possibility of material realization.<br/>

## Participants
[楊偉林 Yang-Wei Lin](https://weilinyang.me/)
[王禎鈺 Chen-Yu Wang](https://chenyuwang.org)
[陳翊羽 Yiyu Chen](https://yiyuchen.org)
[陳儀霏 Yi-Fei Chen](https://www.chenyifeidesign.com/)
蕭俐佳 Li-Chia Hsiao
連威棣 Wei-Ti Lien
[姚睿蘭 Jei-Lan Yao](https://www.instagram.com/yaoyaya.art/)
[陳米靖 Mi-Jin Chen](https://cargocollective.com/melmelchen/ART-WORK)
[蘇義傑 EJ So](https://www.kazuocraft.com)
[胡意蕊 Iris Yirei Hu](https://irisyireihu.com/)
[Maria Jose Rios Araya](http://www.vivisandvasquez.cl/vestuario/tienda-re-wear/)
[Hessa Alsuwaidi](https://we.tl/t-yeU3HdKI5B)
Tauan
[aesunkim](http://aesun.dothome.co.kr/)
[Ananda Gabo](https://www.biosummit.org/ananda-gabo)
[Zohar Messeca Fara (El Bootkeh)](https://idiot.io/projects/)
[Linh My Truong](https://linhcreates.art/)
[Fereshteh Toosi](http://fereshteh.net)
[Giulia Tomasello](https://gitomasello.com)
[Ed Cunneen](https://www.edcunneen.com)
[Gabrielle Benabdallah](https://poeticmachine.com)
[Afroditi Psarra](http://afroditipsarra.com)

## **Schedules**
- **8/21 UTC 12:00** Online Opening and online residence begins
- **9/07** Deadline of submitting your technique on wiki as exchange content
- **9/07- 9/14** "zoom in" of your techniques
- **9/15- 9/30** Online meetups, group discussions
- **10/3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8** 6-days Physical workshop in NTCRI.
- **10/21 - 12/31** pototype development
## **How to start?**
### **Introduce us a technique**
We invite you to introduce a craft technique represents you, it could also be a memory or identity represented by a technique and document it here on [HFF2020 exchange](http://tribe-against-machine.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Having_Friends_in_the_Future_2020). The documentation medium of the technique making process can be videos or text and photos. The forum thread will contain the documentation and discussion. It is a record of the exchange, as well as a material for online collaboration. We hope this process can deepen your understanding of other participants, and help to shed a light on your brainstorming.

Please **sign up** and **post your initial thread** on the forum by 9/01

Content: could be video, pictures, and/or text
1. Self-introduction. For example: who are you? What’s your background? Why do you join this program? What do out hope to learn?
2. To broadcast your interests, techniques (at least one), or a topic you concern (be it electronics, biology, or even environmental concerns, etc) to other participants. This techniques should be introduced step by step.
3. Q&A: online discussions are required for all participants.
4. [How to add pictures on tiki](https://twbasics.tikiforsmarties.com/Adding+Pictures?highlight=images&fbclid=IwAR23QE-FKJV_n_alKGlfWPbIiuaSdLfpS0bkJnC_0YOXfh3ysYekaa1VO8o)
5. Code for adding video: {youtube movie="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsBOWeiHKEI" width="425" height="350" quality="high" allowFullScreen="y"}

### **Swatch book**
We invite all participants to make two 10 x 10 swatches and send it to us after the event. We will cover (part of) the expense you spend on materials and mailing.

### **Online meetings**
All participants can subscribe the contents on wiki forum they wish to learn, we will arange few online discussions in order to trigger collaborations between participants.

## Physical workshops
We will convert ideas formed online into 6-days hackathon in Tsaotun, Taiwan. And interact with other remote participants by the tools and equipment in the center.

## Prototype refinement
The prototype will be submitted to NTCRI who will review the prototypes and provides 60,000 to 100,000 NTD grants for prototype refinement/enlargement. All participants can continue to use this platform to keep up the work with other remote participants. We will also continue to help with the communication and technical issues.

**Please email us if any questions: [e-mail]**