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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
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Op 9-jul.-2014, om 11:45 heeft Brian Degger <brian.degger@???> het volgende geschreven:

> rob? affiliation?
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> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???> wrote:
> Good idea, count me in for the cost.eu Rob
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> Op 9-jul.-2014, om 11:41 heeft Brian Degger <brian.degger@???> het volgende geschreven:
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>> 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...
>>
>> 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
>> *** This message has been sent using QMobile A6 ***
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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 :-)
>>
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>>
>> 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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>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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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