hey all

i totally agree with james' post

in fact it precedes the completion of several half-written responses
and updates i have started for the brico list in recent weeks/months
because i too was in the EU WORKING LIKE HELL scenario....

am seeing dilemmas, solutions, questions....and looking forward to
finishing an email, predominantly to James about accreditation and
some possible collaborations

i agree with fabi too that Ubatuba in May next year will give an
opportunity for bricos to come together again as we have discussed the
need for f2f on numerous occasions and for many of us it has been more
than a while this time since we met and shared our perspectives in the
same physical location (thinking back to wintercamp...) and maybe we
can share and think laterally and spur ourselves in lively
collaborations and action.

anyway- just a little hello, and on that note there are people here at
the cultural digital conference who still want to see how we could get
moving with waterlabs....

any takers? where are we up to with waterlabs? has it dissolved
itself or is it meandering towards some new activity?

i will be in Taganga with Vanessa for at least a couple of weeks in
december. Felipe is here running around co-ordinating some
activities at the festival, but hopefully we bricos will get a chance
to get perspective on our works again. Then we will make some posts
about projects, but May seems a great time to get together and ubatuba
is great!

For now i am focusing on eco project network activities and after a
dead laptop and still no retrieved data soon will be posting up
information about projects and residencies...so, it would be great for
some brico involvement on that once the tek problems are resolved

for now - greetings from rainy Rio. Yes - those of you in colder
parts will be happy to hear it is not always a sunny paradise here!

vx


On 12/2/11, James Wallbank <james@???> wrote:
> Hi Fabi, Hi All,
>
> You ask about collaborations - and sometimes there are times when
> collaboration is tough. Here in the EU there has been a huge, across the
> board cut in cultural funding, support and available resources.
>
> Sometimes when people go quiet it's not because they aren't interested -
> it's because they're WORKING LIKE HELL to survive, and haven't got
> enough time to discuss the projects they're working on.
>
> What I like about the Brico list is that I know that people are working
> on their own projects - sometimes I don't see or hear from Bricos for
> several years - and then I interact with them again, and it's like
> there's been no gap at all. Often I find that moves we make, and
> interests that we develop, are common, even though we haven't discussed
> them.
>
> So just to give you all an update, we, in Sheffield, have been WORKING
> LIKE HELL to get resources, and keep going... and a lots of the actions
> we have undertaken have been small and local. This year we have been
> involved in around UKP 1200000 of funding bids (social/digital research,
> digital inclusion, community arts, adult education...) this year. I
> personally wrote around half of those (that's a LOT of funding bids, and
> not interesting to discuss) and up until this week we had raised just
> UKP 5000!!! In a normal year we would expect to raise around UKP100000
> from UKP 300000 of funding bids.
>
> It seems that things have changed. I expected, with the economic crisis,
> for our funding success rate to go from 30% to around 15% - but not the
> <0.5% that has actually materialised!!! It has (quite suddenly) become
> almost impossible to exist on cultural, educational and economic
> development funding.
>
> But are we giving up? Hell, no! Because we are small, and cheap (for the
> scale of what we deliver) and flexible, we can adapt. So we have an open
> public centre to run, a team of six, and we've been running out of money
> to pay people FAST. However, it has been conceptually very interesting,
> and we have made lots of changes which will allow the project to
> continue and survive - and even grow.
>
> There is lots to say about this - but first I have to get some more work
> done. Watch out for some interesting announcements in the next few weeks.
>
> ...and maybe over the holiday period I will have some more time for
> reflection and discussion!
>
> James
>
> P.S. Patrick, good luck with your eyes!
> ====
>
> On 02/12/11 04:34, Patrice Riemens wrote:
>> Hear! Hear!
>> I have very little to add since I am mostly a lurker on this list, and
>> only pick up the things I find interesting, but I think we should keep
>> these words by Atteqa in mind - also re: other lists and activities.
>> And on a personal note: I am undergoing eye surgery nest monday. Serious
>> but chance of success are high.
>> Cheers patrizio + Diiiinooos!
>>
>>
>>> to add to the question posed by Fabi
>>> My analysis of the diluted flavour on this list could be due to the
>>> following reasons:
>>>
>>> a) many people on this list are male and do not have a habit of
>>> expressing
>>> their feelings and if they feel they have shown any then they need to
>>> apologize as they have gone against the status quo
>>>
>>> b) its a european thing
>>>
>>> c)the kind of people and environment that readers and writers here want
>>> to
>>> create is a noncommiting one, stay objective and youre safe. Its great
>>> academic gimmick, I've seen it used in many conferences that I've
>>> attended
>>> all over the world
>>>
>>> Theres nothing wrong with it, asking people to open up their Pandoras is
>>> much more difficult to control for admins and time consuming no?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:07 PM, fabi borges<catadores@???> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Why everybody apologizes in this list?
>>>> why when I put some video or work, everybody answer to me particularly,
>>>> it is just for serious, very serious subject?
>>>> there is some order I don't know?
>>>>
>>>> this list could be more simple and more colaborative, isn't it?
>>>>
>>>> apologize, apologize,,,, or.... what?
>>>>
>>>> with love ,
>>>>
>>>> fabi
>>>>
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