hey super to see this taking form of a project, would be happy to work
on this.

n.





On 06/30/2014 10:32 AM, Jean-Noël Montagné wrote:
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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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> Critical Making ?
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> 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:
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> -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
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia
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> Our first contacts in Indonesia and worldwide are ready to support a
> big international event in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in autumn 2015, with
> hundreds attendees.
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> 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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