AULA

Aula was an open community of people working in different fields of life, including science, art, business, government, religion (Vatican) and NGOs. It had a gathering space in Lasipalatsi, Helsinki between 2001-2002. Its activities included the Aula Talks lecture series, the Point of View weblog, the 'Exposure: From Friction to Freedom' book, the Aula Cooltown project, the Hunaja mobile social software project, and the Future Library Forum.

Aula was an open community of people working in different fields of life that had a gathering space in Lasipalatsi, Helsinki between 2001-2002. The community included people working in science, art, business, government, religion (Vatican) and NGOs. Its activities included Aula Talks, an ongoing series of videotaped lectures by people speaking about creativity, society, and technology, with past speakers including Lawrence Lessig, Joichi Ito, and Ben Cerveny. The Aula Point of View (POV) weblog began in 2002 as the digest of the Aula member weblogs, edited by Abbas Raza and a band of coeditors, and continues as 3quarksdaily.com. The 'Exposure: From Friction to Freedom' book is a collection of essays, talks and discussions about the future of personal publishing, copyright, and civil liberties, based on the Aula Meeting of Minds '03 event, with contributors including John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, and Clay Shirky. The Aula Cooltown project, by designers Jokko Korhonen and Mika Ihanus, explored ways in which Hewlett-Packard's Cooltown technology could be configured to support the exchange of ideas in Aula, producing the PlayLux display system and PlayPad digital sketchpad. The Hunaja (Finnish for 'Honey') project developed mobile social software that enabled Aula members to announce their presence in Aula's social club using RFID tags, with members able to check who was currently in the space using the Web or a mobile phone. The Future Library Forum is an exhibit of concepts about the future of libraries.

1. 1AULA - Religion & Vaticanaula.cc
2. 2Aula (Co-working community)wikidata.org