Autor: Suzon Fuks Data: Dla: Bricolabs Temat: Re: [Bricolabs] Back from Yogyakarta. Preparing the First World
Summit on Critical Making
Cool…thanks!
spring for us in OZ…cheers Suzon
On 30/06/14 12:32 PM, "Jean-Noël Montagné" <jnm@???> wrote:
>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
>>:-)
>>
>>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
>>>*** This message has been sent using QMobile A6 ***
>>>
>>>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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