The prototype Whithervanes: Open Hardware Kit is almost ready for the 11th Annual Meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) from the June 29 to July 2, 2017 at the Centre des Arts (CDA) in Enghien-les-Bains, France. The exhibition will then reopen September 14, 2017 to January 7, 2018 at the Cité du Design in Saint-Etienne, France. The kit is for non-profits/hacker-spaces, citizen journalists, activists, artists, designers and tinkerers that want to develop new modes of access to, engagement with and common ownership of existing data streams using news-feeds as the starting point.