Author: Jean-Noël Montagné Date: To: Bricolabs Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] Back from Yogyakarta. Preparing the First World
Summit on Critical Making
sorry, good question !.... around september, october 2015...
JN
>Sounds great Automn for which hemisphere in 2015?
>So I can keep free timewould love to come and see HONF people again too
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>On 30/06/14 11:23 AM, "Yasir Husain" <yasir.media@???> wrote:
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>>Yes, I would love to be part of this. What can I/we do.
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>>Yasir + Zahra
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>>Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???> wrote:
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>>>Formidable! Count me in, Rob
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>>>Op 30-jun.-2014, om 10:32 heeft Jean-Noël Montagné <jnm@???>
>>>het volgende geschreven:
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>>>> Hi Bricos :-)
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>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Back from Yogyakarta, Indonesia.......
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>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Why a world summit of Critical Making ?
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>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>> Infinite growth
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>> The World Summit of Critical Making, autumn 2015.
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Contents of the First World Summit of Critical Making 2015.
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>>
>>>> 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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