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Autor: Brian Degger
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Asunto: Re: [Bricolabs] Back from Yogyakarta. Preparing the First World Summit on Critical Making
rob? affiliation?



On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>> 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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