lowkey is a series of social hangouts for anyone who wants to write computer programs with other people. Whether you're new, need inspiration, or just want to throw on headphones and hack, you are welcome to join. Expect it to be laid-back and self-organised outside the usual teacher-student hierarchy: study groups, spontaneous pair programming, parallel working/body doubling, or just folks on couches with laptops. We can all learn from each other. We will do brief check-ins at the start and end of lowkey, to see how everyone is doing and what you feel like doing today.
We are focused on creating a space for diverse coding practices and building a community outside the usual institutions and sites (academic institutions with an End-of-Life, businesses and entrepreneurship with ethical compromises, or "expert" meetups/communities). We are also open to discuss the politics and social issues tied to coding - feel free to bring in resources you want to share such as books, visual essays, or the likes, both in regards to coding and the political mechanisms that surrounds coding, but be sure to include trigger warnings if necessary.
We recognise the historically inequitable social reality of software and the patriarchal and capitalist structures and behaviours within them. We aim for an inclusive and soft space as a disruptive action to change this history. This event is inspired by live coding and community coding events happening all over the globe, and can be considered a friendly fork of the Calm Coding event of Varia in Rotterdam.
Come work on a project, follow a tutorial, or just hang out! Need inspiration? Check out our Resources.
We would like to ask everyone who wants to join to read the Social Rules.
lowkey is initiated by ursuppe.
lowkey is a continuous series. The next hangouts are:
The address is Valby Kulturhus, Valgårdsvej 4, 2500 Valby. Room 3.4
This current series is created in collaboration with Skab Kultur in the Municipality of Copenhagen.
