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We're helping food growers build better soil and adopt sustainable growing practices, while working together to gather soil moisture data from around Europe, to help society adapt to extreme climate events.
High-tech smart cities promise efficiency by monitoring everything from bins to bridges. But what if we ditched the data and embraced ancient technology instead?
Guardian Cities is concluding with ‘The case for ...”, a series of opinion pieces exploring options for radical urban change.
Guardian Cities is concluding with ‘The case for ...”, a series of opinion pieces exploring options for radical urban change.
L'agent(e) valoriste ou technicien(ne) de réemploi est un professionnel du réemploi, du recyclage et de la valorisation des encombrants. Il valorise et revend les objets collectés.
Experimenta Distrito, projeto de inovação cidadã do Media Lab Prado em Madrid.
Affordable Land (or ‘Community Land’) is a form of leasehold that precludes speculation, and so allows councils to license land as a low-cost platform for society and the economy, instead of simply selling it to land traders. It requires no government borrowing, no new legislation and it can exist alongside the existing property market.
La extrusora de polímeros cumple la función de transformar partículas de polímeros en una sección continua de material. Se propone utilizar polipropileno reciclado de las tapas plásticas de botellas, para ser transformado a un filamento usado por las impresoras 3d. Es decir, transformar un desecho a filamento y el filamento a cualquier cosa que queramos imprimir. En esta etapa del proyecto el polipropileno triturado lo encontraremos en empresas que se encargan de triturarlo y lavarlo.
Sustainable Architecture, Building school, Eco housing, Evolved homes, sustainability, self sufficiency, Michael Reynolds, green housing
Čao Laru: quero falar
Todos queremos cidades com serviços eficientes e baratos que melhorem o transporte, a saúde, a moradia, a educação etc. Mas a questão é como evitar que nossas cidades se tornem máquinas de precarizar tra
Materials Matter is a printed leaflet, set of cards and script for disassembly and reassembly of a mobile. Participants of all ages can learn about the raw materials inside electronics by reading our leaflet and using our cards to pair with mobile phone components.
Hacking Ecology aims to promote global access to high accuracy water monitoring systems using the most powerful open source tools to make it possible.
About the book: A decade ago many gushed at the possibilities of 3D printers and other DIY tech. Today makers are increasingly shaking off their initial blind enthusiasm to numerically control everything, rediscovering an interest in sociocultural histories and futures and waking up to the environmental and economic implications of digital machines that transform materials. An accumulation of critique has collectively registered that no tool, service, or software is good, bad, or neutral—or even free for that matter. We’ve arrived at a crossroads, where a reflective pause coincides with new critical initiatives emerging across disciplines.
Unmaking Waste is a partnership with the China Australia Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of South Australia which has delivered two successful international conferences as well as photography and design exhibitions and a number of publications. Unmaking Waste focuses on a cross disciplinary approach and engages with themes such as circular economy, waste, design, consumption, production and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 12; Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
In Agbogbloshie, a community in Accra, Ghana, people descend on a scrapyard to mine electronic waste for recyclable materials. Without formal training, these urban miners often teach themselves the workings of electronics by taking them apart and putting them together again. Designer and TED Fellow DK Osseo-Asare wondered: What would happen if we connected these self-taught techies with students and young professionals in STEAM fields? The result: a growing maker community where people engage in peer-to-peer, hands-on education, motivated by what they want to create. Learn more about how this African makerspace is pioneering a grassroots circular economy.
Basurama is a collective devoted since 2001 to research, production and cultural management. They have focused their area of study and activity in the production processes, the generation of trash that those processes imply and its creative possibilities. In this talk, they discuss their work if giving visibility to trash, and not only things, but spaces, places, and most importantly, people.In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
In Brazil, "catadores" collect junk and recyclables. But while they provide a vital service that benefits all, they are nearly invisible as they roam the streets. Enter graffiti artist Mundano, a TED Fellow. In a spirited talk, he describes his project "Pimp My Carroça," which has transformed these heroic workers' carts into things of beauty and infused them with a sense of humor. It's a movement that is going global.
From satellite graveyards to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, GEO—DESIGN: Junk. explores global systems of discarded things and their new realities and potentialities. This city-wide exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, showcases 18 projects by DAE alumni.
With strikingly different approaches to design and research, the exhibition traverses landfills, uncovers the ghosts of dead digital communities and discovers new ecosystems and economies built on detritus. It looks at junk as a microcosm, as an economic barometer that can reveal realities of consumption and production, and as a subject of intercontinental diplomacy.
With strikingly different approaches to design and research, the exhibition traverses landfills, uncovers the ghosts of dead digital communities and discovers new ecosystems and economies built on detritus. It looks at junk as a microcosm, as an economic barometer that can reveal realities of consumption and production, and as a subject of intercontinental diplomacy.
The installation Chiefs of Waste, by Shay Raviv and Dorota Gazy from STBY, presents a global investigation delving into the ever-changing worlds of waste pickers in Mexico City and Bangalore, uncovering the networks, actors and structures that span the blurry lines between formal and informal systems. The exhibition is on show during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven from 19 October until 27 October 2019.
Nathan Schneider, jornalista e professor de novas mídias da Universidade de Boulder Colorado, nos Estados Unidos, é uma das pessoas que mais vem estudando e promovendo a ideia do “cooperativismo de plataforma” mundo afora. No final de outubro ele esteve no Brasil para um evento privado organizado pela KES, onde falou da ideia de “user ownership” (em tradução livre, compartilhar a posse da empresa) para uma plateia de empresários, COs e CTOs de startups e empresas como Coca-Cola e Bradesco
> "Um estudo global elaborado por cerca de 11 mil cientistas confirmou as pesquisas que apontam que o mundo está diante de uma emergência climática.
> O estudo (em inglês), baseado em 40 anos de dados obtidos a partir de diferentes medições, aponta que os governos estão fracassando no combate a essa crise e que, sem mudanças profundas e duradouras, estamos diante da perspectiva de 'sofrimento humano inédito'".
(o artigo não fala nada sobre lixo)
> O estudo (em inglês), baseado em 40 anos de dados obtidos a partir de diferentes medições, aponta que os governos estão fracassando no combate a essa crise e que, sem mudanças profundas e duradouras, estamos diante da perspectiva de 'sofrimento humano inédito'".
(o artigo não fala nada sobre lixo)
An exhibition of public artworks, installations, meals, performances, urban interventions, and events outdoors in Hyllie, Malmo, from 1 July to 27 August 2017
CycleX designates its 23 acres farmland in Andes, New York as an open space/farm-medialab which will invite artists, cultural workers, inventors, scholars, and farmers from around the world to create, nurture, and grow ideas/food through its residency program.
In her artist talk “Weeds are My Role Model,” artist and activist Candace Thompson shares her Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet (The C.U.R.B.) project which uses the act of urban foraging and the projected "what if" disaster scenarios of climate change to examine critical issues around food and food sovereignty, land access, environmental remediation, multi-species interdependence, and right relationship(s) with the (un)natural world.
People tend to think that we are familiar with waste because we deal with it every day. Yet, this is not the case. Discard studies is central to thinking through and countering the initiative aspects of waste. As more popular, policy, activist, engineering and research attention is drawn to waste it becomes crucial for the…
Matéria do Estadão sobre escolas de referência no Brasil
The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
By Kate Crawford 1 and Vladan Joler 2
(2018)
By Kate Crawford 1 and Vladan Joler 2
(2018)
Design Academy Eindhoven alumni studios look at the myriad consequences of junk in a globalised world in an exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum and across the city for Dutch Design Week.
Geo-Design: Junk – All That Is Solid Melts Into Trash presents responses to the idea of junk from 18 design studios led by alumni of the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE).
These vary from a research project looking at the export of second-hand clothing from China to Zambia, and satellite images that shed light on e-waste dumping grounds, to a series of hand-drawn maps and interviews about waste collection in the Gaza Strip.
Geo-Design: Junk – All That Is Solid Melts Into Trash presents responses to the idea of junk from 18 design studios led by alumni of the Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE).
These vary from a research project looking at the export of second-hand clothing from China to Zambia, and satellite images that shed light on e-waste dumping grounds, to a series of hand-drawn maps and interviews about waste collection in the Gaza Strip.
"Repair groups from across the industry announced that they have formed The Repair Coalition, a lobbying and advocacy group that will focus on reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to preserve the “right to repair” anything from cell phones and computers to tractors, watches, refrigerators, and cars. It will also focus on passing state-level legislation that will require manufacturers to sell repair parts to independent repair shops and to consumers and will prevent them from artificially locking down their products to would-be repairers.
The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong
Saiu o livro resultante do nosso projeto na @OCSDNet, Ciência Aberta Ubatuba, "Open Science and Social Change: a Case Study in Brazil". Disponível em varios formatos: https://idrc.ca/en/book/contextualizing-openness-situating-open-science
on doing nothing, and birds, arts, public squares and waste
Need a tent for your summer camping adventure or music festival? Don’t buy it – borrow it. Library of Things has teamed up with The North Face to add a selection of professional adventuring tents and backpacks to your local library of things. So what are you waiting for? The world is your oyster!
Library of Things describes collections of things other than books that are being loaned like books, for no charge. A library of things can loan out kitchen appliances, tools, gardening equipment and seeds,[1] electronics,[2] toys and games, art,[3] science kits, craft supplies, musical instruments, recreational equipment, and more.[4] These new types of loaner collections vary widely, but go far beyond the books, journals, and media that have been the primary focus of library collections in the past.[5]
Resumo da tarde de atividades relacionadas à Incubadora de Projetos do CEU Ana Maria, na cidade de Santo André. Evento realizado em 10 de agosto de 2019.
Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of building solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crises.
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
Thousands of new cities are needed to house the increasing global population – projected to reach 10bn by 2060. From China’s planned Jing-Jin-Ji hypercity to African techno hubs and sprawling refugee camps, Adam Greenfield explores what the future holds
Em seu livro “Designing Regenerative Cultures”, o autor e consultor estratégico Daniel Christian Wahl explora as implicâncias do momento de intensas transformações que vivemos; como podemos encontrar inspiração em nossa própria essencial Natural para devir neste contexto; e reune exemplos de práticas que já estão regenerando e transformando ambientes pelo mundo.
The UK community repair movement came together for the first time at Fixfest UK on 6 October 2018, and wrote the following Declaration
Plastic waste, in particular PET, which is typically found in soda bottles, is becoming abundant in African cities. In Dar es Salaam, one of the most rapidly urbanizing cities in Africa, BORDA found that about 400 tons of plastic waste per day remains uncollected or unrecycled. Although about 98 percent of the solid waste generated per day can be recycled or composted, 90 percent is disposed in dumpsites.
WHY CATAKI?
Straight Talk
The collectors collect about 90% of everything that is recycled in Brazil. Self-employed workers are the basis of the pyramid of an unregulated and unrecognized sector.
Dignity
They survive by selling what they collect. Plastic and cardboard, for example, are worth about R$0.20/Kg (USD 0.04/Kg), and the glass about R$0.05/Kg (1c USD/Kg).
Straight Talk
The collectors collect about 90% of everything that is recycled in Brazil. Self-employed workers are the basis of the pyramid of an unregulated and unrecognized sector.
Dignity
They survive by selling what they collect. Plastic and cardboard, for example, are worth about R$0.20/Kg (USD 0.04/Kg), and the glass about R$0.05/Kg (1c USD/Kg).
In our research we sometimes encounter material that may be useful to educators, so have set up this page to support bringing repair into the classroom.
We will continually update this list as we find good resources.
We welcome your contributions.
We will continually update this list as we find good resources.
We welcome your contributions.
City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. City Repair has accomplished many projects through a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists. We provide support, resources, and opportunities to help diverse communities reclaim the culture, power, and joy that we all deserve.
If the ambition beneath the instrumentation of the body is ostensible self-mastery, and that of the home is convenience, the ambition at the heart of the smart city is nothing other than control – the desire to achieve a more efficient use of space, energy and other resources.
Here, we developed the first spatially explicit dataset of urban settlements from 3700 BC to AD 2000, by digitizing, transcribing, and geocoding historical, archaeological, and census-based urban population data previously published in tabular form by Chandler and Modelski.
In his latest data viz roundup, Max Galka traces history’s largest cities, explores the great Uber takeover and searches for America’s creative communities
The Circle is a hub for charities, social enterprises, community groups and socially aware businesses in Dundee.
WHAT? Dundee Urban Orchard - otherwise known as DUO - is a city-wide art and horticulture project supporting individuals, community groups and cultural organisations to plant and care for small-scale orchards across Dundee. In addition to the practical benefits of enhancing biodiversity, accessing greenspace for community use and raising awareness of where food comes from, DUO…
We are a global community of people who make local repair events happen and campaign for our right to repair.
Ministry of Space is a collective founded in 2011 with the aim of monitoring future development of Belgrade and other Serbian cities.
We already depend on the smartphone to navigate every aspect of our existence. We’re told that innovations—from augmented-reality interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars—will make life easier, more convenient and more productive. 3D printing promises unprecedented control over the form and distribution of matter, while the blockchain stands to revolutionize everything from the recording and exchange of value to the way we organize the mundane realities of the day to day. And, all the while, fiendishly complex algorithms are operating quietly in the background, reshaping the economy, transforming the fundamental terms of our politics and even redefining what it means to be human.
Sustainable Communities Initiatives (SCI) is a charity working at a grass-roots level with communities of all ages on social and environmental sustainability. All our projects inspire, support and increase resilience in both the individual and in community groups, and take place at our Earthship Fife Visitor Centre, in schools or community centres, or at community events.
Our projects generally involve people’s dreams, people’s waste, a stretch of the participants’ confidence and a lot of fun! We’ve built a Visitor Centre out of tyres and cans, and lots of greenhouses out of plastic bottles. We’ve brainstormed with too-many-to-count community groups on what they’d like to make together, and left them feeling resourced enough to use waste creatively on their own.
Our projects generally involve people’s dreams, people’s waste, a stretch of the participants’ confidence and a lot of fun! We’ve built a Visitor Centre out of tyres and cans, and lots of greenhouses out of plastic bottles. We’ve brainstormed with too-many-to-count community groups on what they’d like to make together, and left them feeling resourced enough to use waste creatively on their own.
Welcome to the New York City Internet Health Report, a Mozilla project made possible in collaboration with the NYC Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer. To demonstrate what makes internet health meaningful for stakeholders and communities at the municipal level, this collection of case studies offers a portrait of a vibrant city working in different ways toward a common public good – an inclusive, safe, secure, open, and decentralized internet.
As we enter a third decade of popular reckoning with the idea of networked computation, any notion of a divide between the physical and the virtual is proving less and less tenable with every passing day. Slowly at first, but with increasing momentum, the ordinary things and places that have constituted the cities around us since there were such things as cities are identifying themselves to the global informatic network, or being identified to it.
Real-world objects and arrangements of objects; structures and locations; events and situations: all of these are acquiring representations in the virtual space of the network.
As yet, by far the greater number of these representations are passive — descriptions, really. These descriptions leave the objects in question only the most limited ability to take account of one another, adapt to the circumstances of use, or otherwise respond to evolving conditions.
Real-world objects and arrangements of objects; structures and locations; events and situations: all of these are acquiring representations in the virtual space of the network.
As yet, by far the greater number of these representations are passive — descriptions, really. These descriptions leave the objects in question only the most limited ability to take account of one another, adapt to the circumstances of use, or otherwise respond to evolving conditions.
This article examines the 'digital city' debate of the mid 1990s as a point of departure for a media-historical questioning of how technology and the discourse about technology were used as an experimental playground for new forms of knowledge that are fundamental for the understanding of today’s network society. This text has been presented as a conference paper at the 'networks and sustainability' track of the 'textiles' conference in Riga in June 2010. The paper will also appear in a special edition of the Arts and Communications Journal edited by RIXC at the end of 2010.
A new approach for inclusive growth
Toronto’s eastern waterfront presents an extraordinary opportunity to shape the city’s future and provide a global model for inclusive urban growth. Sidewalk Labs is honoured to present the Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP) for the Sidewalk Toronto project as a comprehensive proposal for how to realize that potential.
Toronto’s eastern waterfront presents an extraordinary opportunity to shape the city’s future and provide a global model for inclusive urban growth. Sidewalk Labs is honoured to present the Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP) for the Sidewalk Toronto project as a comprehensive proposal for how to realize that potential.
O curso propõe uma exploração teórica e prática de projetos e dispositivos digitais no espaço público. A parte teórica apresenta um estudo crítico das relações do humano com seu espaço analógico e digital: sociedade rede, espaço dos fluxos, protocolos, espaço híbrido, ciborgues espacialmente estendidos, governança algorítmica, stacks.A parte prática consiste no desenho de um projeto real para Adressenparken, um espaço publico tecnológico na cidade de Trondheim. Vinculado a Universidade de ciência e tecnologia da Noruega (NTNU), Adressenparken é um laboratório para pesquisa e inovação, teste de novas soluções, debate social e comunicação de conhecimento relacionado a arte e tecnologia digital no espaço urbano. Como parte da estância de pesquisa em NTNU do professor Dr. Pablo DeSoto, o projeto será implementado de fato na segunda semana de Outubro. A proposta de intervenção pode explorar, por exemplo, as possibilidades da arquitetura como interface comunicativa digital entre geolocalizações remotas, criando um espaço público tecnológico ampliado entre Trondheim, Noruega e João Pessoa, Brasil.
Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life.
Together we can change the rules to make the economy work for everyone.
There has never been a greater need for a new economy. The New Economics Foundation exists to make it happen.
We work with people igniting change from below and we combine this with rigorous research to fight for change at the top.
There has never been a greater need for a new economy. The New Economics Foundation exists to make it happen.
We work with people igniting change from below and we combine this with rigorous research to fight for change at the top.
Here’s the catch: all the activists want to believe that there is something bigger than their planetary efforts, a Movement that is intergalactic in scope. A galactic community that is connected, has a shared purpose and acts collectively. They believe in it, because proper movements should work at the scale of humanity as a whole. They aim to be ubiquitous, so that fulfilment of their vision can have as much impact as is imaginable. How else can you tackle global challenges?
A Universidade como Laboratório Vivo pode contribuir com a implantação de Cidades Inteligentes, por se tratar de um ambiente onde convivem ensino, pesquisa, experimentação, extensão e inovação. Um campus universitário, por ser um espaço de convivência de ideias e cenários, conceitos e tecnologia, contribui para alavancar ações em prol da Sociedade, passando pela sustentabilidade. A gestão e uso consciente dos recursos propicia um ambiente influenciador, não só para os membros da comunidade acadêmica, como para o desenvolvimento local e regional. O fórum tem como objetivos o agrupamento de representantes dos setores que fazem possível uma Cidade Inteligente (Governo, Academia, Empresas, Agências de Financiamento e Sociedade), para compartilhar experiências, nacionais e internacionais, de ações diversas para fazer possível uma cidade inteligente. Busca-se propiciar um ambiente de discussão sobre ações e estratégias para incrementar, interligar e catalisar a participação colaborativa entre os diferentes setores, na busca por melhorar a cidadania e a qualidade de vida da Sociedade.
Já pensou se você pudesse ter uma pequena usina hidrelétrica em casa, para gerar a sua própria energia e não precisar pagar quase nada de luz? Dois jovens curitibanos inventaram uma micro usina “caseira”, capaz de abastecer uma casa e ainda sobrar energia. Não dá para instalar em qualquer lugar, mas é uma ideia inovadora.
A celebration of those who maintain different parts of our world, and how they do it, recognizing the often hidden work done in repair, custodianship, stewardship, tending and caring for the things that matter.
The Festival of Maintenance is a non-profit community event, run by volunteers. It happened for the first time in London, UK, on Saturday 22nd September 2018.
We are now planning the Festival of Maintenance for 2019.
The Festival of Maintenance is a non-profit community event, run by volunteers. It happened for the first time in London, UK, on Saturday 22nd September 2018.
We are now planning the Festival of Maintenance for 2019.
Crowdfunding para a primeira edição da Residência de Tecnologias Livres para a ciência, empreendedorismo e educação da América Latina.
RuralHack è una task-force del programma Societing 4.0 e rappresenta il nodo centrale di un network di ricercatori, attivisti, contadini, hacker, manager, artisti.
"A maneira como ocorre a aprovação de leis urbanísticas está obsoleta. Em muitos casos, as leis vão para o Legislativo sem a exigência de estudos técnicos e estratégias de estabilização do sistema, sem utilizar ferramentas tecnológicas compatíveis com o estágio de evolução da sociedade, ficando sujeitas a uma quantidade de legislações cheia de incongruências entre si, feitas por funcionários mal remunerados, não estáveis no cargo (cargos comissionados) e que não têm a função exigida de continuidade do serviço público, O resultado óbvio é um sistema que aprova leis de forma fragmentada, morosa e impessoal, o que favorece a corrupção."
Projetar aparelhos com defeitos e peças pouco duráveis para que o consumidor tenha de comprar novamente. É a obsolescência programada, uma prática que nos leva a um beco sem saída
"Innovation" is one of capitalism’s most popular buzzwords. Its function is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.
"Faltam alguns minutos para as dez horas da manhã. O vento frio não chega a incomodar quem circula minimamente agasalhado pelo centro de São Paulo. Diógenes, 62 anos, está ansioso. No Espaço de Tecnologias e Artes (ETA) do Sesc Carmo, ele pretende dar início ao projeto de um carrinho automatizado. Trouxe as pecinhas de plástico e alguns circuitos de casa mesmo. Mateus, educador do ETA da unidade, conhece o frequentador há alguns meses; eles montaram juntos a CNC (máquina fresadora) do espaço. Mateus dá alguns pitacos no projeto de Diógenes enquanto recebe outros frequentadores do ateliê aberto. Na parte da manhã, o público-alvo são os adultos. Na parte da tarde, costumam vir os mais jovens."
A bióloga goiana Nathália Machado ensina e mostra na prática a sua Agrofloresta que nasceu há 6 meses no Jardim América
Cidadãos disseram sim e estão fazer acontecer no bairro de Santiago, em Aveiro. O primeiro laboratório cívico português está em marcha e cheio de força. Tem dez projectos já a avançar.
Inspirado no projeto Precious Plastic de Dave Hakkens Plástico Maravilha busca levar a pequenas comunidades capacitação gratuita para a montagem de uma mini usina de reciclagem de plástico, desde a construção das máquinas até a produção de objetos diversos, usando plástico reciclado como principal matéria prima.
O projeto visa tornar a reciclagem deste material um processo mais artístico e acessível, para que todo o plástico consumido seja reciclado localmente e os artesãos estimulados a desenvolver técnicas e produções autorais, levando em consideração os produtos que consomem, formando artistas técnicos que poderão multiplicar estes conhecimentos nas suas comunidades e regiões vizinhas.
Nesta primeira edição, a construção das máquinas, trituradora e extrusora, ocorrerá durante laboratórios abertos a interessados no Instituto Pandavas, na cidade de Monteiro Lobato, coordenados pela equipe do Plástico Maravilha e técnicos convidados. Serão realizados também um Bate-Papo e quatro Oficinas (Introdução à Fabricação Digital, Modelagem Manual, Desenho em Softwares Livres, Modelagem em Softwares 3d) que visam conscientizar os participantes sobre os conceitos básicos de modelagem e da criação de objetos, para que eles mesmos possam desenvolver diferentes maneiras de explorar este material.
O projeto visa tornar a reciclagem deste material um processo mais artístico e acessível, para que todo o plástico consumido seja reciclado localmente e os artesãos estimulados a desenvolver técnicas e produções autorais, levando em consideração os produtos que consomem, formando artistas técnicos que poderão multiplicar estes conhecimentos nas suas comunidades e regiões vizinhas.
Nesta primeira edição, a construção das máquinas, trituradora e extrusora, ocorrerá durante laboratórios abertos a interessados no Instituto Pandavas, na cidade de Monteiro Lobato, coordenados pela equipe do Plástico Maravilha e técnicos convidados. Serão realizados também um Bate-Papo e quatro Oficinas (Introdução à Fabricação Digital, Modelagem Manual, Desenho em Softwares Livres, Modelagem em Softwares 3d) que visam conscientizar os participantes sobre os conceitos básicos de modelagem e da criação de objetos, para que eles mesmos possam desenvolver diferentes maneiras de explorar este material.
Indígenas wampi se uniram para defender seu território da mineração ilegal e da contaminação por combustíveis, entre outras ameaças
Um adolescente de 16 anos muito esperto chamado Thomas uniu duas de suas paixões, ciclismo e eletrônicos, numa invenção prática que qualquer um pode fazer. Usando a CPU (unidade central de processamento) de ventilador velho, uma bateria de telefone antigo, um monte de peças eletrônicas e algumas ferramentas simples, ele criou um carregador de telefone celular para acoplar na bicicleta gastando $ 5 dólares. O sistema alimenta a bateria do telefone enquanto você pedala por aí.
Designing and building digital services for the Co‑op
We are aiming to create familiarity across Co‑op services. Familiarity makes things quicker and easier for our users — it helps them understand our services and trust us.
We are aiming to create familiarity across Co‑op services. Familiarity makes things quicker and easier for our users — it helps them understand our services and trust us.
Technology gives us an opportunity to make cities more open, inclusive and democratic. But only if it's used in the right way, says Barcelona's chief technology officer, Francesca Bria
In this section we try the eReuse.org software tools, specifically the eReuse.org Workbench Computer. You can know more about them in here.
The objective is to register one computer using the Workbench Computer, this is, generating it’s hardware report and uploading it to a Devicehub, where we can observe its information.
The objective is to register one computer using the Workbench Computer, this is, generating it’s hardware report and uploading it to a Devicehub, where we can observe its information.
A selection of projects, organisations and useful tools for social-impact tech
RetroSuburbia is part manual and part manifesto. The book shows how Australian suburbs can be transformed to become productive and resilient in an energy descent future. It focuses on what can be done by an individual at the household level (rather than community or government levels).
RetroSuburbia is a source of inspiration, introducing concepts and outlining patterns and practical solutions. It empowers people to make positive changes in their lives. As with David’s previous work, it is thought provoking and provocative.
RetroSuburbia is a source of inspiration, introducing concepts and outlining patterns and practical solutions. It empowers people to make positive changes in their lives. As with David’s previous work, it is thought provoking and provocative.
ECO coins are earned through sustainable actions
Eating meat-free meals, switching to a green energy provider or riding a bike to work can earn you ECOs which you can spend in our new sustainable marketplace to buy ecological experiences, services and goods. This is a new way to track, measure and reward sustainability so that now you can do good and get paid.
ECO coins are stored in digital wallets accessible through a mobile platform. Sustainable actions are verified by inspectors, through smart IOT integration (e.g. a smart thermostat linked to your phone) and by certified vendors.
Eating meat-free meals, switching to a green energy provider or riding a bike to work can earn you ECOs which you can spend in our new sustainable marketplace to buy ecological experiences, services and goods. This is a new way to track, measure and reward sustainability so that now you can do good and get paid.
ECO coins are stored in digital wallets accessible through a mobile platform. Sustainable actions are verified by inspectors, through smart IOT integration (e.g. a smart thermostat linked to your phone) and by certified vendors.
Atualmente umas das frentes de atuação da FEC na área de saneamento descentralizado é o projeto” Saneamento Rural”, projeto de pesquisa e extensão que visa desenvolver ações de pesquisa e extensão universitária na área de saneamento rural, especialmente no âmbito do esgotamento sanitário. Atualmente as ações são realizadas junto à comunidade rural de Pedra Branca, em Campinas, SP.
As the gig economy grows, more and more stories of worker exploitation are coming to the fore. And as reports of shady labor practices at Uber, Lyft, Taskrabbit, Postmates, and Amazon Mechanical Turk show, these issues run rampant across all sectors of the gig economy. In the home services industry, the platform Handy has made a name for itself, connecting people with pre-screened professional cleaners, fixers, and other professionals. Within three years of its founding, however, the company already faced lawsuits for allegedly underpaying workers and making them pay severe fees for minor transgressions.
To counter poor labor practices, gig workers and entrepreneurs are now taking matters into their own hands by launching their own digital platforms for various services. Called "platform cooperatives," these businesses bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance, to the digital world.
To counter poor labor practices, gig workers and entrepreneurs are now taking matters into their own hands by launching their own digital platforms for various services. Called "platform cooperatives," these businesses bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance, to the digital world.
"In fact, there are a lot of things that could have been done in New York to prevent the kind of devastation that we saw during Hurricane Sandy, from basic adjustments and investments in infrastructure to more radical, but still very practical changes—like the proposal to green the coast of the city with wetlands and marshes that can absorb the energy of incoming water during storms. (This is a much more realistic and affordable solution than the idea of building higher and higher sea walls around the city, which is being floated by some politicians.) The fact is that the New York City coastline was expanded many years ago by creating and building out an artificial landfill. Not surprisingly this area is among the most flood prone in the city."
Development Alternatives (DA), the world's first social enterprise dedicated to sustainable development, is a research and action organisation striving to deliver socially equitable, environmentally sound and economically scalable development outcomes. Our green technology innovations for habitat, water, energy and waste management, which deliver basic needs and generate sustainable livelihoods, have reduced poverty and rejuvenated natural ecosystems in the most backward regions of India.
Since inception DA is dedicated to systemic transformation. It started by analysing the changes that were needed in the existing societal and economic order to ensure that the wellbeing of the marginalised and the health of the environment is maintained and regenerated, for long into the future.
Since inception DA is dedicated to systemic transformation. It started by analysing the changes that were needed in the existing societal and economic order to ensure that the wellbeing of the marginalised and the health of the environment is maintained and regenerated, for long into the future.
What’s needed is a new story in which care for the places where we live is a practical focus for solidarity. In that spirit, a series of xskool workshops called Back To The Land 2.0 brought local actors together, in diverse locations, to flesh out this new story of place with live examples. The text below (it’s about 4,000 words, a 20 minute read) is about the lessons we have learned so far. It builds on the course we helped run at Schumacher College a year ago and in June. (Illustration above: Terre de Liens)
RESUMO: Este artigo discute os conceitos de inovação, inovação social e inovação tecnológica com o intuito de analisar a dicotomia existente entre esses termos em suas epistemologias e práticas. Após um longo período em que inovação esteve relacionada a um processo social, a partir da segunda metade do século XX o termo passa a definir processos relacionados somente ao desenvolvimento tecnológico e econômico. Recentemente, inovação social volta a ser discutida, embora muitas vezes adquira sentido restritivo às ações de combate à exclusão social e ao desgaste ambiental promovidos pela inovação tecnológica. Este estudo ressalta a importância desses conceitos caminharem juntos para a definição de políticas e estratégias para a inovação com foco na sustentabilidade do planeta. Para a melhor compreensão dos termos, uma análise bibliográfica e um estudo do caso da impressão 3D mostra como processos de inovação se relacionam tecno-socialmente, tanto em conceitos quanto em ações. O estudo apresenta uma matriz analítica que permite, por um lado, sistematizar e comparar esses conceitos e por outro, verificar como inovações sócio-técnicas promovem a sustentabilidade na esfera ambiental, social e econômica, e serve como subsídio para a construção de políticas para o setor. Ao final, percebe-se necessário estudos que consigam determinar e mensurar processos organizacionais de práticas sustentáveis nas esferas sociais e tecnológicas concomitantemente.
Boatplans.cc - list of boat plans for amateur boat building
Since the 1960s, the theory and praxis of social ecology have helped guide efforts to articulate a radical, counter-systemic ecological outlook with a goal of transforming society’s relationship to non-human nature. For many decades, social ecologists have articulated a fundamental ecological critique of capitalism and the state, and proposed an alternative vision of empowered human communities organized confederally in pursuit of a more harmonious relationship to the wider natural world.
Social ecology helped shape the New Left and anti-nuclear movements in the 1960s and 1970s, the emergence of Green politics in many countries, the alter-globalization movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and most recently the struggle for democratic autonomy by Kurdish communities in Turkey and Syria, along with the resurgence of new municipal movements around the world — from Barcelona en Comú to Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi.
The philosophical vision of social ecology was first articulated by Murray Bookchin between the early 1960s and the early 2000s, and has since been further elaborated by his colleagues and many others. It is a unique synthesis of social criticism, historical and anthropological investigation, dialectical philosophy and political strategy. Social ecology can be viewed as an unfolding of several distinct layers of understanding and insight, spanning all of these dimensions and more. It begins with an appreciation of the fact that environmental problems are fundamentally social and political in nature, and are rooted in the historical legacies of domination and social hierarchy.
Social ecology helped shape the New Left and anti-nuclear movements in the 1960s and 1970s, the emergence of Green politics in many countries, the alter-globalization movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and most recently the struggle for democratic autonomy by Kurdish communities in Turkey and Syria, along with the resurgence of new municipal movements around the world — from Barcelona en Comú to Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi.
The philosophical vision of social ecology was first articulated by Murray Bookchin between the early 1960s and the early 2000s, and has since been further elaborated by his colleagues and many others. It is a unique synthesis of social criticism, historical and anthropological investigation, dialectical philosophy and political strategy. Social ecology can be viewed as an unfolding of several distinct layers of understanding and insight, spanning all of these dimensions and more. It begins with an appreciation of the fact that environmental problems are fundamentally social and political in nature, and are rooted in the historical legacies of domination and social hierarchy.
Les conséquences négatives de l'individualisme nous rappellent que l’être humain est avant tout un être de relation, et que le sentiment d’appartenance à une communauté est nécessaire à son épanouissement. Mais qu’est ce qu’une communauté au 21ème siècle ? En quoi peut-elle nous aider à faire face aux défis environnementaux et sociaux ? Dans le cadre du projet Oasis, Colibris explore le "faire ensemble" et repense la notion de communauté, en l’envisageant non plus comme un frein à notre liberté individuelle mais bien comme une source de richesse. Alors si, ensemble, nous imaginions de nouveaux lieux de vie et de ressources qui seraient, à leur échelle, la maquette de la société plus écologique et citoyenne que nous avons à construire ?
Une oasis peut se trouver en milieu rural ou urbain et prendre des formes différentes : éco-habitat participatif, écoquartier, écohameau, commune en transition, tiers-lieu tourné vers l'écologie… Autant d'oasis qui se fondent autour de cinq intentions essentielles et sont à l’origine de l’émergence d’une société fondée sur l'autonomie, le partage et la convivialité.
Une oasis peut se trouver en milieu rural ou urbain et prendre des formes différentes : éco-habitat participatif, écoquartier, écohameau, commune en transition, tiers-lieu tourné vers l'écologie… Autant d'oasis qui se fondent autour de cinq intentions essentielles et sont à l’origine de l’émergence d’une société fondée sur l'autonomie, le partage et la convivialité.
Se você espera sobreviver às catastrófes que antecedem o fim do mundo, deve pensar em alguns itens para colocar na mochila. Aliás, mochilinha. Carregar peso desnecessário não é uma boa ideia...
Existem inúmeros exemplos que demonstram a nossa capacidade para encontrar soluções inovadoras que melhoram o nosso bem-estar. Mas as inovações nem sempre são sinónimo de melhoria. De facto, alguns aspetos constituem uma evolução no mau sentido, na medida que nos afastam de um futuro sustentável. O desafio que enfrentamos reside em usar a nossa capacidade inovadora para restabelecer as nossas ligações com a biosfera (capítulo 1) e permanecer dentro dos limites de planeta (capítulo 2) a fim de salvaguardar o desenvolvimento humano a longo prazo. É tempo de introduzir inovações que têm em conta as interações fundamentais entre os sistemas sociais e ecológicos.
Entende-se por resiliência a capacidade de um sistema – quer seja uma floresta, uma cidade ou uma economia – responder às mudanças e continuar a desenvolver-se. Envolve, por isso, tanto a capacidade de resistência como a de adaptação, bem como a capacidade de transformar choques e perturbações – como uma crise financeira ou alterações climáticas – em possibilidades de renovação e inovação. A abordagem centrada na resiliência compreende também a aprendizagem, a diversidade e, sobretudo, o reconhecimento de que os seres humanos e a natureza estão de tal modo interligados que devem ser encarados como um único sistema socioecológico.
Recent decades have seen a significant shift in how profound and intractable problems such as poverty, disease, violence or environmental deterioration are handled. While such problems have traditionally been handled through national social and spatial policies in European welfare states such as Sweden, there has been a substantial redistribution to the market, regions and communities. This is embodied in the term ‘social innovation’, which marks a critical shift in how, where, and by whom societal problems are handled. Practices of social innovation involve a reconfiguration of relations between the state and citizens, relations that are may be (co-)produced in ways that are regionally, socially, and spatially specific. This paper (in the short form of ‘preliminary findings’) explores the ‘how’ of social innovation through three case studies concerning urban resources issues such as food, water, waste and land use. Building on arguments that design has become central to the (co-)production of social innovation, I examine the role of designers and design artifacts in framing and staging (co-)production within households, neighborhoods and civic arenas. Locating social innovation as the reconfiguration of society from within, I discuss these as examples through which wider social practices and systems, beliefs and authority, may be profoundly altered.
McKenzie Wark is a theorist who focuses on media and new media. He is interested in new media technology, intellectual property, computer games, and new media art and culture. He is the author of Spectacle of Dissintegration (2013), The Beach Beneath the Street (2011), A Hacker Manifesto (2004), and Gamer Theory (2007). This interview is exclusively about his latest book, Molecular Red, Theory for the Anthropocene (2015), which focuses on science fiction, labor, utopia and anthropocene.
Nowtopia is a book about a new politics of work. It profiles tinkerers, inventors, and improvisational spirits who bring an artistic approach to important tasks that are ignored or undervalued by market society. Rooted in practices that have been emerging over the past few decades, Nowtopia’s exploration of work locates an important thread of self-emancipatory class politics beyond the traditional arena of wage-labor.
Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, even the Burning Man festival, are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that challenges politics as we know it. As capitalism continues its inexorable push to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging that are redefining politics. In myriad ways, people are taking back their time and technological know-how from the market and in small under-the-radar ways, are making life better right now. In doing so, they also set the foundation—technically AND socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life. The social networks thus created, and the practical experience of cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies and tactics to confront the everyday commodification to which capitalism reduces us all.
Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, even the Burning Man festival, are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that challenges politics as we know it. As capitalism continues its inexorable push to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging that are redefining politics. In myriad ways, people are taking back their time and technological know-how from the market and in small under-the-radar ways, are making life better right now. In doing so, they also set the foundation—technically AND socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life. The social networks thus created, and the practical experience of cooperating outside of economic regulation, become a breeding ground for new strategies and tactics to confront the everyday commodification to which capitalism reduces us all.
L’Atelier Paysan est une coopérative (SCIC SARL). Nous accompagnons les agriculteurs dans la conception et la fabrication de machines et de bâtiments adaptés à une agroécologie paysanne. En remobilisant les producteurs sur les choix techniques autour de l’outil de travail des fermes, nous retrouvons collectivement une souveraineté technique, une autonomie par la réappropriation des savoirs et des savoir-faire.
We are a worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools. We share our hacks online and at meet ups because we become better farmers when we work together.
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Make Works started because we wanted to make fabrication in Scotland more accessible for artists, designers and makers.
Now we teach passionate people in other places how to do the same!
Make Works started because we wanted to make fabrication in Scotland more accessible for artists, designers and makers.
Now we teach passionate people in other places how to do the same!