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MAKEA TU VIDA. Creative solutions for sustainable furniture
by PTQK, 18 August 2010

In the U.S. alone it’s estimated that each person produces an average of 2 kilos of garbage every day, or about 730 kilos a year, most of which isn’t adecuately recycled. Sometimes it’s sent to dumps, on other occasions, such as the case of e-waste, it’s sent to African or Asian countries, where waste is treated in unsafe conditions or simply buried or abandoned in the open air.

Makea tu vida is a group of people, a website where information is exchanged and an attitude that resists our "throwaway"culture. The aim is simple: to design useful and beautiful furniture from unused objects. "We’re a network of people who’d rather not contribute to the growth of waste, dumps, landfills, etc ..., because that’s how it should be, and we believe in the potential of the free exchange of creativity as a force in changing society, respecting the planet we live on just a little bit more. "

Makea tu vida offer workshops on the creative reuse of furniture, organize urban tours to identify places where furniture that can be reused has been abandoned and run the annual Rehogar recycling contest, which awards prizes to the best designs made from waste materials.

The website has a section called El Recetario (The Recipe Collection) where you can check out the most successful Makea tu Vida designs, with photos, instructions and varying levels of difficulty, like the “Showerlamp”, a hanging lamp made using a shower hose, the "Second Round , a reading chair made with the wheel of a truck, or "warm", a chair whose seat is a water heater, ideal for winter evenings. El Recetario will be open to the participation of anyone interested in submitting their designs.

Rehogar 2010 is open until September 6th.

http://www.makeatuvida.net

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GOTEO. Micro-donations for cultural innovation
by PTQK, 29 July 2010

The idea of "culture as a laboratory" isn’t just a pretty phrase, but sometimes is also true. As in the case of projects by Barcelona’s Platoniq collective. Since 2001 they’ve been working in the social field, in order to bring it open source logic and free access to knowledge, DIY, the power of networking and collaboration.

Platoniq are behind initiatives such as Burn Station, in which participants can exchange files both legally and free-of-charge, or the Bank of Common Knowledge, a platform for informal learning that connects people who want to learn something with those who are willing to teach it. Their latest creation continues the idea and adds another parameter: the forecasted bankruptcy of public funding and the urgent need to find new ways to finance cultural projects.

Goteo is just a prototype, but a promising one. It consists of a micro-financing system that, via a social network and a project incubator, aims to put cultural agents who need money to carry out their ideas in touch with potential sponsors. It’s inspired by the philosophy of 2.0 donation, the social electronic bank, new generation charities, manifested in groups like Kiva, Global Giving or Donors Choose.

In the project’s current phase, Platoniq is looking for people with non-profit initiatives in the social or cultural field and donors who wish to embark on an experiment in citizen participation and economic innovation. All the information on how to participate is available on their website.

http://www.youcoop.org

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HUMAN JOURNALISM. It’s journalism, full stop
by PTQK, 28 June 2010

I don’t know how to say that human journalism is different without sounding shallow, a consequence of the bad reputation the mass media has earned for itself these days. Human journalism is simply journalism and has many facets.

First of all, it’s professional, or in other words, carried out by people who are aware of the responsibility of their position and act consequently, because they know that the quality of communication is an indicator of democratic health. Secondly, it’s independent, which means that the criteria used to select the news is based on its informative importance and not the laws of the market or the economic interests of certain business lobbies. Thirdly, it doesn’t have any profit motive, which means that its aim is not to compete for the consumer’s attention but to provide high-quality information for its user community. Fourth -and this is patently obvious- it’s journalistic because one of it’s objectives is to deepen our knowledge of what’s happening in the world, in a neighbourhood or in a village and to do so with affection, dignity and without turning it into a show. Human journalism is everything that the mass media isn’t to those of us who can access it normally and the most encouraging digital initiative than has come about in the state media panorama in recent times.

One example: the recent victory of Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia. We already know how this news is covered in the traditional media: throughout the first days, a series of articles appear which feature a varying degree of description, and which confuse more than they inform; a couple of editorials appear in the weekend supplement; some emotive report with images of paramilitary fighters and cocaine dealers on TV; and what’s more, the Colombian situation is very depressing, the hands of Uribe are very long and the reader or spectator’s time is scarce.
Human Journalism treats the question with a completely different focus, through a series of documentary videos "Deciphering Colombia" which, shown one per day, examine without fear the extremely complicated situation in this Latin-American country, with testimonies, analysis and transparency.

Besides audiovisual pieces (another highly recommendable one is "Iraq, postguerra" by the prestigious Albero Arce), and quality articles on themes that don’t usually appear in the media or only do so in a superficial way, Human Journalism also includes podcasts (like "Radioactivos" by the cultural research collective Zemos98 or “¿Quieres hacer el favor de leer esto, por favor?” by the journalists Elena Cabrera and Carolina León) and links to the contents of other media (like the chapter "50 years of... women, a men’s thing" made by Isabel Coixet for Spanish television). You can follow them on their web, on facebook or on twitter, and use their contents provided that you respect the Creative Commons license by which they’re governed and support the initiative by becoming a member or via a donation. If you’re interested in the world you live in, if you think that information shouldn’t be just a business or you simply want to be reliably informed, there they are.
They are a highly-motivated, exciting and committed team and they deserve a community of followers to match.

http://periodismohumano.com

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OPEN SOURCE PUBLISHING. Graphic design teaches the code by PTQK, 11 May 2010

"Globally there is only one company that offers the applications needed by designers. Adobe packages are certainly powerful, but we want to have a more active relationship with our work tools".

The alternative to proprietary software applications like Adobe is open code software. But graphic design has never been too keen on that: the programmes aren’t so great nor are they particularly compatible with the demands of printing presses, the typographic fonts are ugly, the world of free software –as you know- has never worried too much about the aesthetic side of the things. Well: design world, prepare yourself, because the hackers are coming.

Open Source Publishing (OSP) is both a design agency and a community of activists from the FLOSS (Free, Free and Bid for Source) movement based in Brussels and active since 2006. Its objective is to apply the open code philosophy to the field of professional design. They exclusively use free applications (like Scribus or Gimp) and contribute to their development, learning and circulation. But their main line of work is typography, "the place where free software and design come together in a natural way".

Femke Snelting, a member of the group, emphasizes the similarities between data processing code and typography. Both are used by millions of people everywhere each day but only a few produce them. And most of them are subject to licenses and strict conditions of use, which in the case of type, for example, impede upon adding new characters, accents or punctuation marks. "The alphabet belongs to all of us but its design clearly doesn’t. In so far as fonts are expressions of bits, data files, we think it’s important to reflect on their use, distribution and production so they can work on different operating systems but also in different languages and cultural contexts". OSP also run courses and exhibitions and have a website with a lot material to consult and download.

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org

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D´Evolution Summit. The Internet we deserve
by PTQK, 26 April 2010

If you think the most stimulating thing the web has given birth to this year is Chatroulette, you’re wrong. On March 30th and 31st, taking advantage of the fact that half of Spain was dealing with pre-holiday stress, minister Sinde met her followers from European cultural industries and the ministers of culture of the other 26 member countries of the EU in a meeting behind closed doors in Barcelona. While, a short distance from there, the Red SOStenible network organized the D´Evolution Summit, a parallel anti-summit to fight for fundamental rights on the internet, poke their noses into our ministers’ meeting and tell us about it all in real-time.

The D´Evolution Summit featured conferences on the economy, culture and new business models, attention-grabbing events like the performer Leo Bassi delivering a huge rubber duck to the ministers of culture, copyleft music concerts like one by the Turing Machine or activist educational videos like "El Cobrador del track”,“We Create, We Decide” or “I co-produced Vicky Cristina Barcelona”. And above all, thousands of people watching, listening, twittering and collaborating via social networks.

As a gift for the community, Miguel Brieva has done a nice poster called "Internet won’t be another TV", which can be downloaded online, to print, bind, paste, photocopy, distribute and other illegal activities. The D´Evolution Summit website carries the event’s conclusions and all the information necessary to carry on supporting the Internet we deserve: public, free and creative, not belonging to anyone and belonging to everyone.

http://d-evolution.fcforum.net

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Fed up of your online relationships? Web 2.0 Suicide Machine helps you to a better life
by PTQK, 22 March 2010

In spite of their success -or maybe thanks to it- every day there are more and more voices speaking out against the tyranny of social networks. Whether they’re impersonal and a mere semblance of true sociality, whether the information that circulates on them is irrelevant, whether they make you waste a lot of time... and above all: whether they pose a threat to the privacy of our data. There are also many reasons to make us stay connected to social networks but surely the most powerful one of all is laziness.

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is an independent non-profit initiative that helps you to quit social networks in a quick and a simple way. According to their website, doing so by yourself will take you an average of 9 hours, 35 minutes. With Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, the process hardly takes an hour and you barely have to do anything. You just have to provide them with your username and your password and choose the network from which you want to disappear. From that very moment, it all goes automatically and can be seen in real-time. The software enters your profile, erases your friends, your links, your photos and finally your name.

Since its launch at the end of 2009, more than 1,800 users have committed online suicide using Web 2.0 Suicide Machine.123,000 virtual friendships have been wiped out and 291,000 tweets have been eliminated for ever. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine works on all operating systems, included Linux. For now, the social networks on which you can kill yourself are Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Myspace but programmers are already working on expanding the service to Flickr and Google. Although the service is completely legal, Facebook has already been in touch with them, threatening to take them to court. The letter they sent them (it’s wonderful) is published on their website.

http://suicidemachine.org

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You can have it for free
by PTQK, 22 February 2010

In rich countries –of which there are less and less- we buy a lot more than we really need and, to a large exent, for fun. Going shopping is still a form of entertainment, an ideal way to spend a Saturday afternoon. But one thing is becoming clear: consumer habits are changing. And not only because the crisis means we have less money. Perhaps we’ve lost in purchasing power but hardly anybody doubts that, the shock has also led to a gain in ecological awareness or scepticism with regard to the market. And as time goes by, we’re adapting a more intelligent attitude as consumers. It’s not just that we consume less, but we’ve also begun to consume differently.

Telodoygratis.com is a project that echoes these changes and is at the forefront of one of the more fashionable social trends: the return of the economy of gifts and the culture of exchange. Why buy a new washing machine if you can find one free? OK, maybe it’s not the most recent model but, are you really that bothered about not being at the cutting edge of the latest washing machines? The same thing happens with furniture, above all now that the Ikea style has had its day and vintage décor is all the rage.

In Telodoygratis.com you can find almost anything: domestic appliances, electronic gadgets, furniture, books, clothes, toys and even services (like guitar lessons, baby-sitting or bricklaying). In some cases, it’s free-of-charge; in others it’s offered in exchange for another product or service. You haven’t got anything to offer in exchange? Think carefully. That closet full of clothes you no longer use, your old printer that works well but you don’t need since you bought a new one, the baby chair that’s lying there since they got too big for it... On Telodoygratis.com things are organized according to categories and geographic location, although at the moment it’s only available in Spain.

http://www.telodoygratis.com

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A life without money
by Fran Ilich, 30 November 2009

A project like this is open to all kinds of interpretation: is it a common space? How the hell one can live without money? Surely this blogger is using some kind of barter system? But what Suelo (the author) describes are fragments of the life of someone who turned his back on the money-based reality in which most people live.

From one day to the next he rejected those pieces of paper, known as bills, and the little metal discs we call coins. He also gave up storing energy, only eating when he was really hungry. And, as if this wasn’t enough, he got rid of his possessions, even those that only had sentimental value, because he believed that those are precisely the ones that tied us most to the past, in a comparable way to how future credit lives off the debtor.

Suelo’s life is not unlike that of a homeless person’s, or someone from a beatnik novel, describing his movements from his native Colorado to the states of California, Oregon, and beyond. But we shouldn’t forget that this blog is written by a Christian hippy, made of flesh and blood, who lives the life of an activist. Suelo lives in a cave and has renounced the use of money for 9 years now. He writes his blog from public libraries. A very honest exercise that’s well worth continuing, even if it’s only updated from time to time.

http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com

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The Poor's Bank
by Fran Ilich, 22 July 2009

The network phenomenon isn’t just happening online, but also in villages that barely have Internet connections. But what’s most interesting, online banking also exists in offline areas, though it’s quite different to what we in the cities know as internet banking, online banking or even having ATMs. Take, for example, the Grameen Bank (or Bank of the Poor) in Bangladesh, which began in a remote rural zone in 1976, lending a handful of takas per family (to the woman of the house) without any guarantee requirements, depending solely on the pressure that groups inside its network used to recover any money lent, and then reinvest it in new loans or projects, with a greater common good in mind.

This project has grown to such an extent that it has generated sister companies, in areas like mobile phone systems, the textile industry, fishing, communications, it’s also involved in social security and education programs, among others things, which are also listed on the stock exchange. For some time now, they’ve been worth over a trillion dollars and the founder, Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the economy through micro credits. The Grameen Bank has branches throughout the world.

http://www.grameen-info.org/

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THE COMMONS LAB. No commons without community
by Fran Ilich, 17 June 2009

This opportune initiative was the brainchild of Medialab Prado. Basically its premise is that not everything in the world is private property, and while in recent decades the state has bent over backwards to defend and subsidize the interests of the few, there are some things that don’t have to pass through the government’s filter in order to be considered common property: in other words, belonging to you, me and anyone who needs them.

According to Antonoio Lafuente, "the Commons is the new way of expressing a very old idea: that some assets belong to everyone, and that they form a community of resources that should be actively protected and managed for the common good."

They first sought ways of meeting that were neither a conference, a seminar, nor an elitist think tank, rather groups that would allow any person to join the discussion group, in search of a committed group that would provoke certain results.

What’s it all about? "Seeing the world collectively or, in other words, choosing a world made by everyone, a common world." And working on this together are people from various fields like philosophy, ecology, activism, hacktivism, law, urban planning, art, journalism and economic politics. After this, work groups are formed to go beyond the theory and actually put things into practice.

And now that the Commons Lab in Madrid is coming up with results, other similar groups are starting up in America. For the moment, the one in Mexico City has been operating for a couple of months already. The question that I can’t help asking is, what will happen to a lab like this, on a continent where concepts like social democracy and public affairs haven’t quite managed to land. Where dictatorships, dirty wars, the brutal exploitation of natural resources, genocide and socio-economic disparity are the order of the day. We’ll soon find out, surely the lab will provide lots to speak about.

http://medialab-prado.es/laboratorio_del_procomun

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FREE SOFTWARE IN A BOX
by Fran Ilich, 08 June 2009

NGO In a Box and Tactical Tech. Both these initiatives are the offspring of the illegitimate marriage between practitioners of tactical media and NGO's. What these initiatives aim to do is to fine-tune open source software and make it as 'plug and play' as possible, so it can be easily used by those working for NGO's, who don’t have the time to dive into the wide ocean of technical terms.

NGO In a Box is a project by Australian Adam Hyde, better known as the creator of the infamous Frequency Clock, a streaming application that allows us to organize mp3 or real media files, and more, according to a calendar with different timetable uses, and in this way to decentralize the programming of radio content on the internet, as well as showing the programme line-up at different times around the world. Some of the packages included are: Basebox, Security Edition, Audio/Video Edition and Open Publishing edition, which in just one download locates all the programmes and necessary instructions to manage administration, security, edition of audio/video or editing.

Meanwhile, Tactical Tech is an NGO that aids and advises human rights groups in the area of communications. This one has packages like Message in-a-box or Mobiles in-a-box, that make tactical media’s strategies more functional, so they can be applied by NGOs without any great problem.

http://ngoinabox.org/

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THE CELL. Center for Empowered Learning and Living
by Fran Ilich, 09 May 2009

While the world of the arts and new media were acting like police officers, continuously questioning so-called art-activism, certain activists were obsessively trying to get their artwork into the white spaces of the galleries, often arguing that it’s important to legitimize certain actions in society, as if to remind us of Subcomandante Marcos’ two big questions: "Who do we have to ask for permission? Who do we have to ask for forgiveness?"

Well, while all that was happening, The Cell appeared out of nowhere, answering these questions and operating in such a so low-key manner that a couple of years after its apparition it still seems almost camouflaged. Located next to the Denver Art Museum’s new building, in the heart of the city, this controversial initiative has generated protest and comment and created all sorts of ripples, while each day its museum space offers an immersive experience, that fights terrorism through interactive narratives, projections and case studies of tactical media which is labelled as terrorism (TV programs for children in Palestine, modified Arab videogames, videos of Iranian songs), and also with an exhibition featuring replicas of bombs and weapons used by subversive groups around the planet.

The funny thing is that for anyone who looks close enough, The Cell is basically furthering the agenda of international Zionism and more than just reporting on terrorism, it seems to talk about the propensity for terrorism of certain Arab races from the Middle East and North Africa, but it also quotes other examples that, although few, carry on tactically without any confusion as to their mission. This little detail seems to have been forgotten by art activists, as they fought to gain admission to the world of art, biennials, and galleries.

http://www.thecell.org

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First World festival of Dignified Rage: Another world, Another way: down and to the left
by Fran Ilich, 19 March 2009

A meeting between civil society and a group of Latin-American guerrilla fighters would appear to be impossible, and more so if the armed rebel group in question organizes a festival to last about 11 days and take place in 3 different cities. But this festival actually took place between December 26th and January 5th and even the remotest of venues attracted 2,000 guests. This may have been because it happened to be in a small town of the kind that the Zapatistas call autonomous municipalities and are found in the poorly connected Chiapas region. An impressive array of musicians and street performers took part and the commanders showed up to give their eagerly-awaited traditional New Year’s speech, on the date when the Zapatistas also commemorate leaving their towns to take up arms and sound the alarm call to all of Mexico back in1994.

But in fact the festival began in Mexico City, in a busy Lienzo Charro in Iztapalapa, a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of the metropolis, already creating a certain distance between the gentrified urban set and what goes on 'below and to the left'. Among the many things happening there, we ought to mention a video area with documentaries and films, a market where followers of the Sixth Statement of the Lacandona Forest displayed everything from magazines and t-shirts to blenders that don’t require electricity, functioning with pedals instead. Also there was a conferences area, a space where the National Indigenous Convention showed their wares, a café, 1 gallery and 2 concert areas.
After Mexico City the festival moved on some 1,000 or 1,500 kilometers to the southeast, to the University of the Earth in San Cristobal de las Casas, where conferences were held with people like Michael Hardt, John Holloway, the Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos...
So as not to carry on just listing things, let’s leave you the link in case you’d be interested in visiting the website to hear conferences, make contact with visitors who attended the event, from over 100 countries around the world I believe...

http://dignarabia.ezln.org.mx

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OpenFSM. Do a better world
by Fran Ilich, 31 December 2008

When taking part in global events in any particular part of the planet, if we don’t concentrate on being effective, we could even end up strengthening the system which we are opposed to.

Let’s take for example the World Social Forum which was hosted annually in Port Alegre, Brazil, in response to the Davos World Economic Forum, where the big neo-liberals meet to plot, their encounter now being transmitted on the internet. And, going back, if we don’t plan our movements, the winners will undoubtedly be -above all- the airlines and transport companies, and obviously, we know that the money we give them is nothing compared with the agreements, actions or events that they can trigger off. But somehow, the experience repeats itself, and the larger the event, the more 'representative' it is, almost by rule, and the less effective.

And this is where the World Social Forum succeeded some years ago when simultaneously decentralizing the forum in different geographical locations, and now, upon creating openfsm.net, a platform for participatory social activism, which helps speed up agreements and distribute tasks when preparing your event at the World Social Forum (the next one is in January 2009 in the city of Belem do Pará in the Brazilian Amazon). What it aims to do is to make the World Social Forum a continuous process, one that isn’t just limited to the days of the event itself.

If you want to find likeminded people, register your project or organization, unless like the Zapatistas, you’re excluded by point 9 of the FSM’s charter of principles.

http://openfsm.net

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AVAAZ. Spread the word! 15 December 2008

The world that most of us want is getting near thanks to global movements like Avaaz.org, through which thousands of people anywhere in the planet are connected and mobilized for critical events and take party in international decision making.

More protection for the environment, more respect for human rights, initiatives to end poverty, corruption and wars are some of the causes being foght for that on Avaaz, which translated into English means voice, the voice that many want to take away from us.

Technology and the Internet have led to an advance in all areas and have allowed citizens to become connected and created a new model of politics driven by people, which is changing countries, from Australia to the Philippines to the United States. Avaaz brings this model to everyone, permitting decisions to be taken by common people, people who have a lot to say, people like us.

How it works is simple, once having registered, messages are received warning about urgent global problems and informing of opportunities to bring about change. Everyone gives what he can in time and money and within a few hours hundreds of messages are sent to political leaders supporting a cause, protesting against another or trying to avoid a disaster.

text: Laura Sala

http://www.avaaz.org

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OSOCIO. Is there any positive side to Advertisement? 25 March 2008

Osocio.org is where marketing and activism collide. And it’s a friendly meeting. This web site is dedicated to Social Advertisement and Non-profit campaigns from around the globe. Campaigns which basic goal is not to make consumers buy more but to call their attention, make them think and take action into different social needs – that’s the power of Adverts in Osocio.org

Osocio serves as a meeting point for advertisers, activists, ONGs, social entrepreneurs and volunteers. It’s a reference and a great archive for marketing with heart and soul.

In Oscio besides finding a great archive on campaigns there are ONGs listings, news and a social-marketing dictionary.

After all maybe advertisement is useful and positive, at last

http://www.osocio.org

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KIVA. Become a radical social capitalist!
20 January 2008

Who says that NGO's, multinational banks and assorted charity-bureaucracies are the only way to help people out of poverty in the developing world?

In fact it is well known that many people in these countries have the intelligence, initiative, and ideas to help themselves through their own enterprise... except for the lack of access to investment capital, which is often reserved for large mega-projects.

Enter KIVA.COM.
Kiva is a community of micro-lenders connecting directly with communities of micro-businesses, providing just the kind of micro-capital that can be directly injected into people's lives. Time and again, this has been shown to work more effectively than almost any other means.
Cut the middleman - or woman - out! Become a radical social capitalist!
http://www.kiva.com

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DIGG. Democracy basics: people rule 08 November 2007

There are organisations with no political link which strength relies in its members and their participation to be able to move their social initiatives. Now there is one tool capable of helping them. Its name is DIGG and with it, internet users’ involvement is key.

Let’s say a NGO needs a campaign that can be developed with different options in terms of message, media, timing, etc… With DIGG you can upload the different options and everyone can participate, voting on their favourite alternative. With this democratic tool, everyone can participate, vote and a better solution might be found.

But DIGG can really be use for any decision to be taken by a community where all members can easily involve themselves.

http://www.digg.com

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by Luis Fernando Tolosa Cetina, Columbia (web)

Espacio de formación abierto y colaborativo.

http://www.eqaula.org

by Gustavo Zibecchi, Argentina (web)

Idea: Crear un modelo educativo anárquico, verticalmente dinámico. En estos tiempos de estrepitoso capitalismo donde ya no queda lugar para la revolución política. Donde los limites históricos geográficos fueron sustituidos por limites de marketing. Donde ya importa mas una marca que un país. Uno de los pocos puntos donde puede generarse algún tipo de revolución es en la educación. Tal cual la conocemos hoy, la educación esta comprometida de forma vertical con el gobierno de turno, o mas precisamente con el modelo politico-económico de las ultimas generaciones establecidas en la región. Este tipo de estructuras burocráticas no pueden reestructurarse en contenidos y necesidades velozmente, siendo hoy en su mayoría obsoletas a las necesidades de subsistencia e independencia del individuo. En lugar de generar individuos libres los mimetiza mas con el sistema establecido. Entonces la educación suele ser obsecuente con el modelo. Proponemos un modelo dinámico y emergente. Generado por las voluntades mismas de los individuos. Organizados como células carentes de organizador, jefe, o director. Cada célula se crea a si misma organizada y motivada por la autodeterminación y la voluntad de los participantes. En ella rotan de forma dinámica la estructura vertical de educación. Esto es, cada uno toma el rol de enseñarle a los demás aquello de lo que sabe y el resto esta interesado en aprender. Diferenciando así estas células de las mesas de debate. Aquí es estricta la verticalidad educativa, siendo el que enseña el que esta obligado a explicar y el resto intenta obtener ese conocimiento. No están normadas las disposiciones ni obligaciones de los individuos en materia educativa aquí, dado que estamos planteando un modelo anárquico. De este modo varios de los integrantes pueden tranquilamente solo obtener conocimiento y no tener de momento nada que enseñarle al resto. La única norma real esta dada en el común acuerdo constante basado en el motivo común que es la educación.Estas células anárquicas con voluntad de grupo (guerrillas) poseen una capacidad de adaptación constante al cambio y a las necesidades de los integrantes. Permitiendo en un mundo como el de hoy, donde el contacto con el material de estudio suele estar a disposición de cualquier (internet), el crecimiento cultural, intelectual y practico de los individuos sin dependencia de ningun tipo de organismo o persona mas que su libre voluntad de aprender y capacidad de organizarse. Bajo esta consigna, los individuos son libres de generar otras células, desprenderse, fusionarlas, etc... Permitiendo así que un individuo en una célula, aprenda algo que luego enseña en otra. Estamos hablando todo el tiempo de la independencia del conocimiento. Nos encontramos hoy con que casi todos los contenidos están al alcance de la mano digitalmente. Queremos, sabiendo eso, acelerar y optimizar los contenidos y la profundidad de aprendizaje. Estas células dinámicas operarían como ruedas. Habiendo muchas de estas el proceso de conocimiento general de los individuos participantes se aceleraría enormemente. Estamos estableciendo una comunidad del saber donde la moneda de comercio es la misma cultura. Y donde todos estamos interesados en comprar y vender.Proponemos, dado el exceso de material electrónico que existe en esta sociedad, revalorizar la experiencia como método educativo. Hoy existen talleres y cursos de todo lo imaginado, pero se perdió la transmisión del conocimiento como oficio. Proponemos un modelo que solo busque la mejora del individuo, sin depender de ningun ente burocrático, gubernamental, económico, y sin que nadie lucre del mismo modelo.

http://groups.google.com/group/clan...

by Marcela, Spain

Radio blog desde el Centro Penitenciario de Mujeres de Brians 1 (Martorell, Barcelona)

http://www.laislaradioblog.net/

by joan jimenez, Spain (web)

SPOONCH es un experimento de branding 2.0. Es la marca de todo lo que tu quieres que sea. Es la marca de NADA y de todo, es simplemente lo que necesitas. Una sonrisa, un imposible, un helado de chocolate... ¿Te apetece un SPOONCH?

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?g...

by meri, Spain

sostenibilidad social y ecologica en moda son posibles.

http://www.orlandooo-things.net