Hey bricos,

I hope all is well with each and every one of you. Writing this email
for many reasons - first of all, a curiosity to know how you guys are
doing, how you are surviving the never-ending end of the world. Then to
share some personal news. And finally announcing some new stuff. It's
also a very ego-centred exercise in old-school digital socialising and
seeking for collaboration.

So, for starters - what are you up to? In these last couple of years
there were some email exchanges here - the Brico list seems to have
turned from stormy waves into slower and longer tides, but we're all
still around, somehow. Still, it's always a good thing to ask people
again and again what they're doing. We're all different from the days of
our broader meetings.

BTW from time to time I find old stuff around the webs. Like these:

https://networkcultures.org/wintercamp/2008/12/09/bricolabs/
<https://networkcultures.org/wintercamp/2008/12/09/bricolabs/>
https://networkcultures.org/wintercamp/2009/03/04/bricolabs-autonomous-world-domination/
<https://networkcultures.org/wintercamp/2009/03/04/bricolabs-autonomous-world-domination/>
https://networkcultures.org/wintercamp/2009/03/09/final-day-presentation-bricolabs/
<https://networkcultures.org/wintercamp/2009/03/09/final-day-presentation-bricolabs/>

Oh, and one of those photos of such young(er) bricolisters was used here
too:

https://www.pixelache.ac/events/bricolabs-exhibition
<https://www.pixelache.ac/events/bricolabs-exhibition>

Apropos, I'll write a bit more about the nexus pixelache - Brazil below.
But let me just share my lifelog here too. As you may have read (in this
mailing list or elsewhere), in 2019 I moved to the UK and later to
Berlin. I finished my PhD, met some of you along the way, and joined a
network/nonprofit called GIG - active in international collaboration on
social innovation. It's been a period with many challenges and
accomplishments. But I'm returning soon to Brazil. There's more than one
motivation for that, but the most important is that my kids - now 15 and
11 years old - moved back there last year. So, this June - one month
before completing 7 years in Europe - I'll be back in my terra. I'll
settle again in Ubatuba, will hopefully keep collaborating with GIG, and
would hope to keep building bridges to enable all brico-members to visit
us there - to exchange, help, have fun, chill.

After that Pixelache 2013 co-curated by Bricolabs
(https://www.pixelache.ac/archive/2013
<https://www.pixelache.ac/archive/2013>), some of us organised the first
the Tropixel festival in Ubatuba. Over the years since, we had many
other editions: from small gatherings to international events, as well
as becoming a relatively active and permanent online group since the
times of COVID.

As I come back to Brazil, my plan is to organise what I'm calling
Tropixel Cycles: a series of events in multiple formats to keep
discussing and building cooperation. The first one I can talk about and
invite you guys - and whoever else you recommend - to send proposals to
is the Ciclo Tropixel Mar das Coisas. I'm organising it with Fabi Borges
from LACO / IOUSP. The idea is to discuss, build alliances and
experiment with arts-science alternatives to address watershed pollution
and marine litter.

The event will be from Jul 30th - Aug 1st. Here's a bit more about it
and a submission form:
https://mardascoisas.tropixel.org/ <https://mardascoisas.tropixel.org/>

This time, it's a completely self-funded gathering - we unfortunately
can not pay for travels or anything like it. But it would be great to
find ways to think of what we can do together - if not in July, at some
point in the future.

Also - I'm still in Europe until June. I'd love to meet nice people
before bringing my life back to Brazil. Current itinerary is Utrecht
this week for Impakt.nl, an event in Madrid on May 1st and 2nd, and the
GIG week around re-publica in Berlin in May. I'll probably be near
Lisbon for the rest of these months (but am open to invitations as well).

Best regards from Faro,
F