Sounds greatŠ Automn for which hemisphere in 2015?
So I can keep free timeŠwould love to come and see HONF people again tooŠ
:-)

Suzon





On 30/06/14 11:23 AM, "Yasir Husain" <yasir.media@???> wrote:

>Yes, I would love to be part of this. What can I/we do.
>
>Yasir + Zahra
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>Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???> wrote:
>
>>Formidable! Count me in, Rob
>>
>>Op 30-jun.-2014, om 10:32 heeft Jean-Noël Montagné <jnm@???>
>>het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Bricos :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Very important news for all Bricos: we have the opportunity to gather
>>>ourselves in Indonesia in autumn 2015, and to participate to a major
>>>event in history.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Back from Yogyakarta, Indonesia.......
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Few hours ago, I was sitting here in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in HONF
>>>headquarters, with Venzha from Bricolabs and founder of HONF, with
>>>Irene, artistic director and co-founder of Honf, and Tommy Suryo,
>>>director of Honf Fablab http://www.honfablab.org/ . I was there for the
>>>Proto[Type] 2014 meeting in Yogyakarta, organised by 3 NGO: HONF
>>>Foundation, Catec (represented by Ilham Habibie) and rOg (represented
>>>by Stephen Kovats, chairing the meeting).
>>> Meeting on Open Culture and Critical Making:
>>>http://www.natural-fiber.com/y2014/
>>>
>>> After three days of brainstorming with international and Indonesian
>>>partners, we have found that there is an opportunity to launch here in
>>>Indonesia, the First World Summit of Critical Making in autumn 2015.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Critical Making ?
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> The original concept of Critical Making has been first set up by Matt
>>>Ratto, one of the first co-founders of Bricolabs list, few years ago,
>>>then started to be a subject of research & learning in some
>>>universities.
>>> Critical Making is basically what we do and share in Bricolabs:
>>>creating and building art, knowledge, goods, services and structures in
>>>citizen-based approach and not in a capitalist-based approach. We
>>>develop a critical reflection on the relations between technology and
>>>society. We like to share our knowledge, we like to control the
>>>technologies and not be controlled by them, we like to hack, to build,
>>>to learn and to teach. We like the world, we like the planet. We like
>>>freedom and poetry.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Why a world summit of Critical Making ?
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Critical Making is one pacific approach to the necessary changes we
>>>have to do as soon as possible, regarding the conjunction of two main
>>>crisis in the very next years:
>>>
>>>
>>> -energy crisis: we are at the end of the "sinusoidal plateau phase" of
>>>the peak oil. Very next years (around 2017, + or - 2 years, according
>>>to many indicators and researches) will see the price of petrol
>>>climbing regularly and strongly with a global impact on all production
>>>of goods and services, all over the world, with all the bad
>>>consequences we can imagine on society.
>>>
>>> -climate crisis: this year, as last year, was the world record of
>>>sending CO2 and greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. The climat is more
>>>and more chaotic and violent. The climate crisis affects health, water
>>>resources, agriculture and food production, transports and lodging of
>>>billion people. Floods, tempests and dryness will create hundred
>>>million refugees. Nobody has succeded yet to stop this self-destruction.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't forget also the metal ressources crisis, coming during the 20
>>>next years with huge impact on industry and society, the fragility of
>>>financial system, the political crisis and many other sectors of
>>>society in deep distress.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Infinite growth
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please don't consider these facts as conspiracy theories coming from
>>>paranoïac attitude. It is just analysis of the curves of the
>>>production and consumption of our resources. All these numbers come
>>>from official & industrial agencies, and are really easy to verify.
>>>Even if the predictions are wrong within a few years, it's a matter of
>>>time: this planet is small and has limits. Infinite growth is
>>>impossible. In just two centuries we have consumed most of the fossil
>>>resources, and our children will have to live in a completely different
>>>world.
>>>
>>> Despite this negative observations, mostly ignored by the medias, who
>>>want to profit from ads for cars and useless electronics as long as
>>>possible, we still have the power to make another world possible, other
>>>worlds possible, and using our schemes to start a viral transformation
>>>of the society, starting from our neighborhood, from our house, now. In
>>>most of the countries, leaded by industrial and financial power, this
>>>transformation will have to come from the citizens, at citizen-scale.
>>>Cooperation, Do-It-Yourself ( DIY), Do-It-With-Others (DIWO), share,
>>>openess, open-source, autonomy are the keywords. Realistic keywords.
>>>Mankind keywords.
>>>
>>> We have almost ten years to build " global and local development of
>>>generic infrastructures incrementally developed by communities ", and
>>>we have to spread it before, or during, an eventual chaos. The easiest
>>>years to do it are now, just now, because energy has still a low cost,
>>>and everything is still possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> The World Summit of Critical Making, autumn 2015.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The World Summit of Critical Making hope to show & spread a lot of new
>>>practices, directly usable by the people. The World Summit of Critical
>>>Making itself has to be a critical making process. This summit will
>>>produce words for the documentation of many critical making processes ,
>>>but will aslo show facts, tools, objects, networks, practices, ways of
>>>learning, ways of spreading the knowledge. The main focus is to show
>>>how to start the transformations now.
>>>
>>> We are all transformakers !
>>>
>>> If scientific words are produced, and such words will be produced, it
>>>will not be only for storing heavy PHD thesis on shelves of
>>>universities, but for sharing methods, manuals, translations,
>>>encyclopedias, hope, art. If words are produced, it will be words of
>>>love and knowledge. For viral immediate use.
>>>
>>> A very important part of the summit will be the "Demo Faire", the
>>>"Tangible Zone", the "Workshop Place", the "Hack Area", the "World Tool
>>>Sheds" where the invitees and Indonesian citizen will see, test, hack,
>>>touch, learn, dismantle & build the concepts, the materials, the
>>>objects, the machines, the systems.
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> A big event for Indonesia and South East Asia
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia
>>>
>>>
>>> Our first contacts in Indonesia and worldwide are ready to support a
>>>big international event in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in autumn 2015, with
>>>hundreds attendees.
>>>
>>>
>>> Indonesia is centered on equator. Indonesia is full of diversity in
>>>all sectors of the society, and knows how to manage it.
>>>http://tinyurl.com/indonesian-diversity Indonesia is a little planet
>>>itself. More than 700 living languages are spoken in Indonesia.
>>>Influences of Indian, Japanese, Australian, Chinese, Australian,
>>>European cultures associated with traditional islands cultures.
>>> Indonesia has a lot of natural ressources, with the world's second
>>>highest level of biodiversity after Brazil. Indonesia has a lot of
>>>makers. The indonesian Fablab, DIY, and DIWO scene is growing quickly,
>>>and we have a lot to learn from them. And the people are very nice and
>>>peaceful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia
>>>
>>> As hosts and main organisers with our help, Indonesian and South-East
>>>Asia transformakers will have an important place in the summit, and you
>>>will see that this is a real chance for us to discover people coming
>>>from a territory half as big as Europe and inhabited by as many
>>>citizens as Europe or North America.
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Contents of the First World Summit of Critical Making 2015.
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> We would like that the autumn 2015 summit will be composed by 50% of
>>>words and 50% of practice. But we would like that the practices show
>>>over 70% of real level of utility, and less than 30% experiment. And we
>>>would like that the words produced for the summit represents over 70%
>>>of direct spread of the knowledge to the people, by all channels
>>>possible, and less than 30% for academic research.
>>>
>>> During the next weeks, we want your comments, questions and inputs on
>>>the project. Post on this list. We want that you take a breath, unplug
>>>the stressfull electonic devices around you, and take some time to
>>>think about such a summit. About the next years of our children.
>>>
>>> We need your creativity, your work and your help to make it a major
>>>world event in 2015.
>>>
>>> Welcome, transformakers. Tell us if you are into the project.
>>>
>>>
>>> JN, with the help and great inspiration of Venzha, Irene, Tommy and
>>>all HONF partners in Indonesia
>>>
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