Turn it off is an impact campaign using online and offline media to question the ubiquity of wireless networks and offer tools to escape them.

Janina and her team are looking to collaborate with designers, researchers, thinkers, artists and makers to organize screenings, share stories, share work and engage with them in a public debate on how, if and when we want to connect with our wireless devices.

Meditation Lab Experimenter Kit (MLEK) is a toolkit for learning more about your own meditation practice by doing experiments. With the kit you can explore how your environment (at the moment light) can have a positive effect on your meditation quality. The kit consists of a wearable with nine bio-metric and environmental sensors in combination with a software platform for logging and viewing data, both quantitative and qualitative. A smart algorithm will learn how to change your environment to increase your meditation quality. The software uses Internet of Things technology to communicate with lights in your environment.

Danielle is looking for people who are interested in using the experimenter kit for a longer period to collect data and test certain light conditions. She is also looking for a way to have (temporary) access to Philips Hue Bridges and Go lights.

There are some alternative medicines in different cultures, and their effects sometimes cannot be proved by contemporary scientific researches. They are usually even regarded as cultural myths, such as tiger penis for virility in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). And the huge demand of wild animal parts as TCM results in increasing endangered animals. However, TCM still could contain a certain value which differs from mainstream western medicine. How can we find a solution for the conflict between the value of traditional Chinese medical culture and the contemporary way of thinking of environmental conservation?

The tiger penis-project proposes new forms of creating artificial animal part by emerging biotechnologies for Chinese medication which will help to avoid putting in danger more animals. By combining Western and Chinese medicine, the methodology of this hybrid medicine provides more possibilities for the human society and natural environment. Kuang-Yi is looking for advice and reaction about the conflict between Asian medical culture and the thinkings of environmental conservation from western community.

E52 is an Eindhoven based journalism platform that brings news on innovation. E52 is looking to expand and M52 will be the first out-of-country hub for the E52, in Munich, Germany. It’s the first step in a plan that aims at growing to be a European organisation for news on innovation.

E52 is preparing the M52 start very carefully, but is always in search of (better) network and of (more) specific contacts in the ecosystem of technology and innovation. Also, companies, organisations and individuals that are doing business in Brabant as well as Bayern, are welcome.