Workshops — Rizoma

Rizoma hosts and organises workshops on topics spanning art, technology and sustainable practices. Past workshops have covered electronics, live coding, fermentation, natural building and permaculture design.

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Previous Workshops

TOPLAP Maribor — Live Coding Meetups (2023–2024)

Rizoma established a TOPLAP live coding node in Maribor — ongoing meetups and workshops exploring algorithmic music and visuals.

Co-production: GT22, BarKoda, KIBLA.

Odprtost za kodo — Openness to Code (2025)

Mentoring workshops with Maribor secondary school students, co-produced with Zavod Polagoma. Rob Canning led "Beat by Byte: A TOPLAP Live-Coding Lab" — generative visuals and algorithmic grooves with Hydra & Strudel. Results presented at Vetrinjski dvor, Maribor.

Rob Canning leading a live coding workshop — Photo: Boštjan Lah

Rizoma Sessions (2025–)

Workshop series on experimental sound-making and graphic notation.

Production: Zavod Rizoma. Co-production: GT22.

PIFcamp Workshops (2018–2025)

Six consecutive years of workshops at PIFcamp in the Soča valley: fermentation, instrument building, Networked Touch interfaces, and LED Bling soldering workshops for children.

Hack Your Microbiome Bar (2025)

Fermentation workshops — water kefir, kombucha, wild yeast capture, and fermented vegetable production. See our Fermentation Lab for more.

LED Bling — Soldering for Children

LED Bling soldering workshops for children at PIFcamp, led by Meta Canning.

LED Bling workshop illustration — Illustration: Roger Pibernat. Documentation of Meta's workshop from makery.info

Networked Touch (2023)

Workshops on collaborative capacitive touch interfaces at PIFcamp.

Photos: Katja Goljat. Produced within the konS Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art, co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund.

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Soil Week — Bioreactor & Chromatography (2022)

Open soil research residency with Malte Larsen and Julian Chollet as part of the UROŠ project.

Fungal Bioreactor

Malte Larsen developed a prototype bioreactor for cultivating beneficial soil fungi, based on the Johnson-Su design — open hardware soil biology for small-scale farmers and gardeners.

Radial Soil Chromatography

Julian Chollet from Humus Sapiens developed a workshop format for radial chromatography — a visual method for assessing soil health through paper chromatography.

DIY Microscopy / UROŠ Field Trip (2021)

Knowledge exchange with artists and scientists from the Hackteria network visiting as part of the KonS-funded UROŠ (Ubiquitous Rural Open Science Hardware) project. Participants included Paula Pin, Miranda Moss, Hortense Vielfaure, and Marc Dusseiller (remote).