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About AikiLab.org (Hackerspace Damascus)

A hackerspace is a place where people with common interests, usually in science, technology, or digital / electronic art can meet, socialize and collaborate.

AikiLab.org is a collaborative technology and art space in Damascus, Syria (33.5216745521° N, 36.2886679173° E). We hold FLOSS events, Open Content workshops, teach classes, have geeky parties, and do pretty much anything related to sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning..

we are a community of artists, engineers, designers, scientists and inventors.

people

• Ahmad Ali

  http://ahmadali.me/

  Ahmad Ali is a visual artist, graduated from Faculty of Fine Art, Damascus University (2007), an enthusiast young artist to new wave of ideas and arts, and he focuses on new visual Art, Op Art, photography, and Video Art.

• Basel J. Hamadeh

  Basel is a computer science student at the University of Greenwich. Previously, worked with Alshaya International Trading Co. as a Stock Administrator and later as Project Manager for 2 years. A free software advocate, focusing in promoting the use of Free Software in schools, private and public organizations. Helps in building community focused projects within schools and universities.

• Bassel Safadi

  http://www.bassel.ws

  Bassel Safadi is a software developer and a 3D technical director with ten years of practical experience.
  He has extensive experience in open source development including Linux kernel and Apache server. He started web application development in 2000 and 3D visual effects in 2005. His latest work includes a 3D photo realistic reconstruction of the old city of palmyra (Syria), real time visualization, and developing a web programming framework (i.e., aikiframework).

• Brad Phillips

  http://www.bradphillips.org/

  Brad Phillips is a developer and new media artist dealing in all forms of digital art. Having 4+ years of experience in 3D and interactive digital art creation and nearly 10 years of music performance and audio editing experience, much of his current work attempts to treat audio as an integral part of an interactive virtual experience. His interactive artwork developed the company (http://semiautomatic3d.com) and has been publicly shown most recently at the spring 2008 UIC Art Department show. Chicago Public Radios weekly program, Hello Beautiful, featured Phillips work in spring 2008. Brad graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in May of 2008 with a degree in Electronic Visualization where he studied with Daria Tsoupikova, Sabrina Raaf (http://raaf.org), and Daniel Sauter (http://daniel-sauter.com/). His specialties include interactive environment development, virtual reality, processing, music performance, and audio production.

• Christopher Adams

  http://techne.raysend.com/

  Christopher Adams is a publishing professional and free culture advocate based in Taipei, and runs his own book production and typesetting practice. Freesouls: captured and released by Joi Ito was his first fully Creative Commons-licensed book project. Christopher is a co-founder of Sharism.org and a member of the Creative Commons Network. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in Cognitive Science.

• Georges Dahdouh

  http://georges-dahdouh.deviantart.com/

  Georges Dahdouh is a general artist both digital and traditional, with experiense in graphic design, Branding, 3d, interior design, web design and photography for more than 12 years. Worked in many companies in Syria and Qatar, for the time being he's a self employeed artist, also volunteered in many activities for the favour of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and made branding and graphic designs for project of the "IFRC" Middle East and North Africa regional office

• Jon Phillips

  http://rejon.org

  Jon Phillips (rejon) is an artist and developer contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, leads the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons community and business development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and is growing the media company Fabricatorz with Cantocore Art Exhibitions and the Laoban Open Soundsystem in Beijing.

Our Affiliations

AikiLab.org is proud to be actively involved and affiliated with a range of organisations and open source companies which share our passion for education and the development of people.

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