"funny coincidence"

we have this event too http://www.trasformatorio.net

(cc: fredd who is busy on it since years)


On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Felipe Fonseca wrote:

> (sorry if this email arrives twice - it seems I was not subscribed to the
> brico mailing list anymore - go figure)
>
> Heyall,
>
> Gathering spiderwebs this mailing list, isn't it?
>
> On the other hand, brico-themes are as relevant as ever. I thought often
> about you people recently. I'll allow myself to report on recent
> developments here... And I'd love to know what you're up to these days.
>
> A couple months ago I decided to write to some people in Brazil, most of
> them dedicated metarecicleirxs. Some of them are reading this email, BTW. I
> missed working more closely with those people, and thought we needed to
> articulate something anew. It wasn't MetaReciclagem anymore (to my account
> it is dead since 2012), but I had no idea what it should be. A general
> feeling was that expressed on this article:
> https://www.academia.edu/20808625/Gambiarra_Repair_Culture
>
> Some weeks on, I went to sleep wondering how we should call that new
> configuration. Later that night, while feeding the baby, a name came to
> mind. I wrote it down and went to sleep again. Next day I found it was
> nothing new: transformatório. In fact, I had read in this very mailing list
> about Fred's Trasformatorio in Italy. And naturally, Transformaking in
> Indonesia was naturally an influence. Anyway, it seemed to make sense around
> here (and I wrote Fred to feel what he thought of having the name he came up
> with being used by some people in Brazil ;)). Transforming matter seemed to
> make more sense than either "making" or "repairing".
>
> Anyway, this week we'll have the first meeting of Brazilian
> Transformatórios, as part of an event in Santos called Lab.irinto. I'm also
> about to release (with Carol, my wife - a designer and jeweler) a
> crowdfunding campaign for "TransforMatéria", a conceptual/critical project
> on those subjects. And if everything goes well I'll be spending about three
> weeks in Nantes, invited by Julien Bellanger and PiNG, also orbiting the
> same themes. The idea is to gather ideas to set up a Transformatório in
> Ubatuba in the coming years. I'm honestly more interested in how we can find
> ways to work together with craftsmen and repairmen by establishing a
> relationship of true interchange... but I still wonder how those ideas
> resonate on brico-list.
>
> All the best, miss you all
>
> efe
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