september 2015!
Great, lets go.
Anyone interested in a COST.eu application to support
flights/accomodation/the meeting?
I dont have university affiliation, but surely we can grab 5 people with
connections to critical making and university affiliations?
Cheers
Brian
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Felipe Fonseca <felipefonseca@???>
wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30/06/14 12:32 PM, "Jean-Noël Montagné" <jnm@???> wrote:
>>
>> sorry, good question !.... around september, october 2015...
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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