>>>>>>>    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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