Laura Balboa
To notice requires awareness, which requires action and participation. Consolidating knowledge about how the unnoticed came to be and later, what has become, is the key to continuing this awareness-action loop. Join me as I explore a series of examples and reflections where reciprocal actions were transformed into frameworks, new ways of collaboration, accessible knowledge, participatory documentation, and more humane cultural production.
Credits
Music: Soundstripe Inc.
Track: Stardust
Artist: Cody Martin
Writer: Cody Kurtz Martin
Publisher: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS
Video production: EVERYWOW
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Laura Balboa
As a multiple practitioner, my work has its foundation on human experience and participatory action by engaging with cultural production and community work. I have been working as a designer for twenty years and I have dedicated the last ten years to the open-source community and industry. Nowadays I build R&D processes and coordinate releases at Arduino, the open-source hardware and software company that democratizes technology reach. When it comes to research, I study different communities ranging from marginalized imprisoned groups doing art workshops, to female and non-binary experimental sound artists to make their production visible from a gender and cultural perspective.



