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- MTF Labs AB is a Swedish company which runs labs, festivals and events to encourage cross-sector collaboration and innovation through creative work, particularly music. Its origins go back to 2012 when founder Michela Magas established Music Tech Fest, a 3-day festival in London where people from different disciplines gathered to invent and showcase new formats and platforms for musical performance and expression. By 2016 this had evolved into a series of 5-day experimental labs – MTF Labs – where participants work to create hybrid technologies using cutting-edge source material provided by industry and academic partners. The stated aim of these labs is to “address grand challenges through curiosity, ingenuity and collaborative making.” It has been hosted worldwide by partners including Microsoft Research New England, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London, with participants such as Viktoria Modesta, Anouk Wipprecht, Eska, Reeps One, Moritz Waldemeyer, and has been covered by WIRED, Make, Radio Eins, Midem, and Makery. The MTF community now comprises some 7,000 innovators including academics, industry experts, scientists and artists, from fields such as medicine, aviation, product design, AI, music composition, microcomputing, traditional crafts, neuroscience, ecology and economics. MTF Labs AB was established in 2018 to develop and promote the activities of that community, including but not limited to festivals, innovation labs, hackathons and symposiums. Work done by MTF over the last decade has, according to Magas, had “major implications for our understanding of systems, interactions, communications or the future of work.” These discoveries have, amongst other things, led to the establishment of Industry Commons, which seeks to use the same ethos of cross-domain collaboration to shape the broader innovation landscape. (en)
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- Aveiro, Berlin, Boston, Frankfurt, Genoa, Helsinki, Karlsruhe, Liège, Ljubljana, London, Örebro, Paris, Pula, Stockholm, Umeå and Wellington (en)
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