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Skribent: Felipe Fonseca
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Emne: Re: [Bricolabs] Back from Yogyakarta. Preparing the First World Summit on Critical Making
Now I read all of it... indeed, amazing idea! I want to be part of it
too!!!!

Was also confused about which autumn ;) Great, let's plan for september
then!

Terimakasi JNM, merci Venzha Ira Gustaff Tommy and the others I haven't
met (yet!!!).

efe

Em 30-06-2014 08:16, Suzon Fuks escreveu:
> Cool…thanks!
> spring for us in OZ…cheers Suzon
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> On 30/06/14 12:32 PM, "Jean-Noël Montagné" <jnm@???> wrote:
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>> sorry, good question !.... around september, october 2015...
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>> JN
>>
>>> Sounds greatŠ Automn for which hemisphere in 2015?
>>> So I can keep free timeŠwould love to come and see HONF people again tooŠ
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Suzon
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>>> 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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