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Author: Rob van Kranenburg
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Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] Back from Yogyakarta. Preparing the First World Summit on Critical Making
Good idea, count me in for the cost.eu Rob

Op 9-jul.-2014, om 11:41 heeft Brian Degger <brian.degger@???> het volgende geschreven:

> 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
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> 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:
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> Yes, I would love to be part of this. What can I/we do.
>
> Yasir + Zahra
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> 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:
>
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> 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.
>
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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 ?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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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.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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> 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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