Introduction – LabtoLab – "There is a tendency in our society to favor a professional working force with specific properties: flexible, swift to respond to changes, willing to be informed/reformed and re-trained if so desired. The traditional vision on working life positions the process of learning before the professional carreer, and this birth, school, work, death logic still applies to most working situations. But increasingly the relationship between learning and work has started to blur and has become less linear. Workers are now often required to regularly update their skills, to stay informed, to keep in touch with their field and to listen to what is going on in remote corners of their profession. Digital tools and the integration of technology in our daily life offer new perspectives in terms of knowledge production and distribution. The marriage between the free market and the Internet seems to tick all boxes of a society looking for technological answers to its socio-economical problems. Clearly new ways of learning, less formal, and maybe uncertificated, are on every organizations’ mind. ’Knowledge exchange’ is a valuable tool to increase an organizations’ viability. LABtoLAB is rooted in this context. As workers in a quite specific branch of the media art field, we feel there is a need for new spaces, other types of institutions and informal initiatives that are open for the participation of anyone. Spaces (and by ’spaces’ we don’t mean only four walls and a roof) that take advantage of the hybridisation of specialism, that dare to tick outside the box and that are willing to create a critical approach to the culture of technological work."
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‹div><div><h2><span>About the LABtoLAB project ‹/span></h2> ‹br> There is a tendency in our society to favor a professional working force with specific properties: flexible, swift to respond to changes, willing to be informed/reformed and re-trained if so desired. The traditional vision on working life positions the process of learning before the professional carreer, and this birth, school, work, death logic still applies to most working situations. But increasingly the relationship between learning and work has started to blur and has become less linear. Workers are now often required to regularly update their skills, to stay informed, to keep in touch with their field and to listen to what is going on in remote corners of their profession. Digital tools and the integration of technology in our daily life offer new perspectives in terms of knowledge production and distribution. The marriage between the free market and the Internet seems to tick all boxes of a society looking for technological answers to its socio-economical problems. Clearly new ways of learning, less formal, and maybe uncertificated, are on every organizations’ mind. ’Knowledge exchange’ is a valuable tool to increase an organizations’ viability. LABtoLAB is rooted in this context. As workers in a quite specific branch of the media art field, we feel there is a need for new spaces, other types of institutions and informal initiatives that are open for the participation of anyone. Spaces (and by ’spaces’ we don’t mean only four walls and a roof) that take advantage of the hybridisation of specialism, that dare to tick outside the box and that are willing to create a critical approach to the culture of technological work.
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