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14.10.2008

Commons lLab: work groups

The Commons Lab aims to structure a discourse and a series of actions and activities related to this concept. "Procomún" (Commons) is a new term that seeks to express a very old idea: that some assets belong to everyone and together they form a community of resources that should be actively protected and managed. That community consists of the things we inherit or create jointly and hope to leave to future generations. The Commons includes natural resources such as air, water, oceans, wildlife and deserts, as well as the Internet, radio-electric space, numbers, and medication. It also includes many social creations: libraries, parks, public spaces, scientific research, creative works, and the public knowledge we have accumulated over centuries.

The Commons Lab brings together people from various fields including philosophy, ecology, hacktivism, law, urban planning, art, journalism and economic policy. Its different work groups meet periodically and work online to debate and plan actions that help to raise awareness about the value of various aspects of “the commons” and the dangers that threaten them.
  • Obsoletos (Obsolete), by Basurama. A project conceived of by the Basurama collective for the research, creation and dissemination of creative systems for transforming technological waste, which is understood as all types of electronic devices, storage formats, or hardware that have fallen into disuse or become impaired: computers, peripherals, magnetic tapes, motherboards, etc. [+info]
  • La hemeroteca audiovisual como procomún (The Audiovisual Periodicals Archive as part of the Commons), coordinated by Tíscar Lara. It reclaims the right to access to and use of the audiovisual archives of the media and promotes the search for ways to make them freely available, given that, to a certain extent, they are producers of our historical memory and collective psyche. [+info]
  • Cultura(s) de lo común, (Culture(s) of the Commons), coordinated by Andoni Alonso and Antonio Lafuente. The objective is to gather the terms and concepts comprising the culture(s) of the commons. If defining a concept means using words to define its meaning and showing the implications of its use, constructing a dictionary means giving new life to and making visible the cornucopia of common assets. The project does not presuppose any previous philosophy but instead supports the plurality of points of view and the diversity of traditions that comprise the Commons. [l+info]
  • Cuerpo Común, (Common Body), coordinated by Jaime del Val, proposes a criticism of the new forms of power implicit in post-Postmodernism, which operate by giving shape to the desires and emotions of bodies. The project aims to study new control technologies that operate through the dissemination of non-verbal affective intensities (sounds, choreographies, images) in the framework of audiovisual culture. [+info]
comments:
Anonymous wrote:

Deseamos participar en el grupo de trabajo desde la distancia ¿Dónde podré enviar el portafolio y los cv para que conozcan n uestro trabajo?

24.12.2009 22:04:29

Julie wrote:

Quisiera saber si ya funciona la lista de correo del grupo de la Hemeroteca audiovisual y donde se puede apuntar. En efecto, como no estoy segura de poder asistir esta noche, quisiera enterarme de los próximos laboratorios de ese grupo y también eventualement del de Cultura(s) de lo común. Gracias de antemano por la info!

29.10.2009 11:58:50

Anonymous wrote:

Is it possible to get this in English? My spanish isn't good enough to understand :)

24.11.2008 18:35:58

jordi wrote:

"Muerto y mil veces muerto..." debería empezar a organizarse a la de ya. El plan sería que en Enero tuvieramos ya la primera de las sesiones de debate con la presencia de Moira Roth que vendrá dispuesta a liquidar a Duchamp. Luego habría que establecer el calendario de trabajo a seguir. A ver si nos vemos y hacemos una propuesta.



03.11.2008 22:21:47

angela wrote:

en que fecha sería el laboratorio "muerto y mil veces muerto"

03.11.2008 20:58:38

Anonymous wrote:

mw parece bastnte interesante

28.10.2008 11:59:02










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