Why?
Because we can

Volne suvisiace s prazskym brmlabom: https://cc.cz/investori-i-banky-ho-odmitli-musel-zastavit-svuj-dum-ted-jeho-firma-prodava-radary-za-stamiliony/

pozor, vypnut zvuk

https://hufft.com/

Ahojte, po pol roku spoluprace s JRC EU Science Hub - Joint Research Centre, socialnym centrom Booster a Le FabLab de Nîmes na projekte zameranom na "Youth: a life through the pandemic" sa moj projekt blizi ku koncu.

Rada by som vas pozvala na zaverecnu prezentaciu mojho projektu, ako aj projektov dalsich 4 makerov a makeriek na temu "Pollinators decline" vo forme webinaru v pondelok 19/7 12:30-14:30

Registration (obligatory) here - https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science-update/webinar-0



Som z toho nervozna, je to divne robit prezentaciu online ked nevidim obecenstvo, ale snad to dobre dopadne :)

He also had much to say about the value of open technology for education.

"You could repair a lot of things at low cost - but it's even more precious to know that you did it yourself," he said.

And he spoke of the "motivation and joy" of young people learning to write software and develop hardware "to prove to themselves they've got a little special skill in the world", adding it was "very motivating for creative minds, believe me - that's how I grew up".
https://bbc.in/3qWJ1AA

"As Suzman documents in his new book, “Work: A Deep History From the Stone Age to the Age of Robots,” hunter-gatherer societies like the Ju/’hoansi spent only about 15 hours a week meeting their material needs despite being deeply impoverished by modern standards. But as we’ve gotten richer and invented more technology, we’ve developed a machine for generating new needs, new desires, new forms of status competition.

So this is a conversation about the past, present and future of humanity’s relationship to work and to want. We discuss what economists get wrong about scarcity, the lessons hunter-gatherer societies can teach us about desire, how the advent of farming radically altered people’s conceptions of work and time, whether there’s such a thing as human nature, the dangers of social and economic inequality, the role of advertising in shaping human desires, whether we should have a wealth tax and universal basic income, and much more."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-suzman.html?smid=fb-share

toto je sweet






https://www.instructables.com/123D-Fab-Cardboard-Construction-Kit/

Brat mi poslal "lahke" citanie o jeho praci :) kazdopadne, cool!

We propose an artificial life framework aimed at facilitating the emergence of intelligent organisms. In this framework there is no explicit notion of an agent: instead there is an environment made of atomic elements. These elements contain neural operations and interact through exchanges of information and through physics-like rules contained in the environment. We discuss how an evolutionary process can lead to the emergence of different organisms made of many such atomic elements which can coexist and thrive in the environment. We discuss how this forms the basis of a general AI generating algorithm. We provide a simplified implementation of such system and discuss what advances need to be made to scale it up further.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07627.pdf

As depicted above, robots will be “born” through the use of 3D manufacturing. We use a new kind of hybrid hardware-software evolutionary architecture for design. That means that every physical robot has a digital clone. Physical robots are performance-tested in real-world environments, while their digital clones enter a software programme, where they undergo rapid simulated evolution. This hybrid system introduces a novel type of evolution: new generations can be produced from a union of the most successful traits from a virtual “mother” and a physical “father”.

As well as being rendered in our simulator, “child” robots produced via our hybrid evolution are also 3D-printed and introduced into a real-world, creche-like environment. The most successful individuals within this physical training centre make their “genetic code” available for reproduction and for the improvement of future generations, while less “fit” robots can simply be hoisted away and recycled into new ones as part of an ongoing evolutionary cycle.
https://theconversation.com/were-teaching-robots-to-evolve-autonomously-so-they-can-adapt-to-life-alone-on-distant-planets-153159

Commoning Practices in Postcapitalist Design



How to disentangle design from capital? To what extent might commoning practices disrupt the Commodity-Machine? How do we prefigure a resilient and regenerative economy? Is there a postcapitalist blueprint for the rapid and just eco-social transition ahead?


This thesis surveys the ways in which design practices can contribute to a postcapitalist transition. I study several contemporary product design projects that develop everyday tools, building systems, and fabrication machinery. Together, they encapsulate peer production, open-sourcing, and the maker movement.

These trends constitute a coherent methodology of commoning, which manifests itself in three ways: shared creation (designing in common), shared governance (managing designs in common), and shared access (holding the means of production in common). I describe how this shared valorisation of labour, knowledge, and artefacts radically alters the political economy of design practices.
https://postcapitalist.design/

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Ak si niekto pozriet live obhajobu v utorok o 14h link bude pristupna tuna
https://www.facebook.com/events/2920001004937861/

Our technology is revolutionary in terms of its composition. Based solely on paper and enzymes, it is natural, contains no metals or lithium, and poses zero risk of combustion. By reducing battery waste, we are simultaneously reducing the cost of recycling and disposal and minimising environmental impact. For end-user consumers, this eco-friendly battery with a lifetime of between one day and two months - depending on its power output - will cost no more than the conventional alternative. Thin and flexible, bioenzymatic batteries are also perfect for powering electronic devices and package tracking systems, which are becoming thinner and more connected all the time.




https://www.edf.fr/en/befc-eco-friendly-battery-paper-enzymes

Akurat som pred rokom sla prvy krat spravit tuto lampu, ale prisiel lockdown. Konecne som sa dostala do fab labu a mohla som sa konecne trocha hrat. Toto je prva verzia, chcem si vymodelovat vlastnu chobotnicku v blenderi, plus este vylepsit nejake veci (light dispersion, layer orientation..)

Tie rozdiely vo sfarbeni vrstiev je preto lebo som 7 dielov nakoniec vyrezala rucne kedze laser bugoval a kamos spustil zly file kym som sla do pekarne

Anyway, radost mam z toho ako decko :)



material - 2m vlnkovity karton, lepidlo, led strip,

Postup:
- download https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:159217
- hollow it v rhinoceros
- rozdelit na horizontalne vrstvy v slicer fusion 360
- vyrezat na laser
- prilepit led strip
- zlepit vrstvy


A v noci nam takto pekne svietila :)

Nepotrebuje komentar.
https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads

Mrte ma bavi tam len tak hadzat random mesta, je to ciste porno. :)

Poznate, o ktore ide? :) Mierka nie je jednotna.

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alebo most useless dvere

https://palette.housekeeping.tn/meuble-palette/19-fabriquer-un-salon-de-jardin-en-palette-des-idees-recup-pour-le-jardin/?fbclid=IwAR31fR6s39bD7esLYYkRilXjFlsXtuW1FH-P7OTHsiYoAeG-Hj5aaPR3VYI

In regards to real-world applicability for this kind of technology, it seems like the Delta Quadrant is the limit. Not only are Doherty, Kraft, and their colleagues going to continue developing microswimmers for the sake of studying micro-propulsion, but, according to a recent paper they published in the journal, Soft Matter, they also have an eye on diagnostic and drug delivery use cases. Which means one day soon-ish, you could have a starship battling invading Borgs of bacteria in your body!




https://nerdist.com/article/micro-uss-voyager-star-trek-self-propelling/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=social+flow&fbclid=IwAR1h3XqeA2gjzKFJtuYIGv9lbUzEq8rY0GbzXW4UHlaIXR1xuajJf8KZ5Bg

How is democracy changing? How can citizens participate in this change?

These are the themes of the 3rd Annual Citizen Engagement and Deliberative Democracy Festival.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted societal and policy challenges amid uncertainty. People need solutions that go beyond business-as-usual policy.

Open to all, the Citizen Engagement and Deliberative Democracy Festival is the chance for people of diverse backgrounds to gather and tackle some of the pressing issues of our time.

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moze byt zaujimave pre niekoho:

Exhibition
We are looking for citizen engagement projects to be showcased in the festival virtual exhibition. Projects can bring novel approaches to citizen engagement, focused on ideas of deliberation or of co-creation, which can span art, science, and technology.

We welcome proposals from organisations from all over Europe that show the potential of citizen engagement projects on matters that concern EU citizens. We hope to not only learn from your experience, but also to explore ways in which we can collaborate.

If you are interested, please fill in the application form available online (DEADLINE EXTENDED until 10 November 2020).

Social Innovation Prize
We are pleased to announce a social innovation prize rewarding social innovation projects as a part of the exhibition. To enter the competition, fill in the application form before 10 November 2020 at 23.59 CET.


more info: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/conference/3rd-annual-citizen-engagement-and-deliberative-democracy-festival

Are bioplastics and plant-based materials safer than conventional plastics? In vitro toxicity and chemical composition
Https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020320213?via%3Dihub

https://ceebios.com/

METTRE EN ŒUVRE LE BIOMIMÉTISME
Ceebios, Centre d’études & d’expertises et Réseau d’acteurs industriels & académiques national
Nous accélérons la transition écologique & sociétale par le biomimétisme

Clothes rely on supply chains & commoditized garments. Designers at Barcelona's Fabricademy use biomaterials to "grow" & "print" the wardrobe of the future, from grass or mushroom garments to algae or kombucha "leather".

Students conduct innovative research to create innovative bioplastics and contribute their recipes to an Open Source library of formulas. They use plants, insects and bacteria as dyes and 3D printing and milling to create fabrics with geometries precisely designed to perform.

Anastasia Pistofidou, co-founder of the innovation lab, doesn't believe that everyone will be able to print their own clothing, but she does think that anyone with access to modern digital fabrication tools (like those at the Barcelona Fab Lab where the program is based) can create print textiles that can be worn and recycled and reused again and again.

The textile industry is the second most polluting after oil, and contributes to 20% of water pollution worldwide, but Pistofidou believes in order to make change one has to create new materials and machines that can work within the current system.




For recipes: Open Source Circular Fashion Catalogue https://oscircularfashion.com/
Fabricademy: https://textile-academy.org/
beGrounded: https://class.textile-academy.org/2019/lara.campos/
Felipe Fiallo: https://felipefiallo.com/

https://www.muziker.sk/teenage-engineering-po-12-rhythm?gclid=Cj0KCQjw-O35BRDVARIsAJU5mQUc9Oz8W_rdqGSNET7mHoLi7oL5BK0D0J2ab_eiy9VuH3XTojuoQaIaAh81EALw_wcB

https://fr.ulule.com/triosv-le-trike-open-source-et-diy/?fbclid=IwAR2KapDQmaVS6Qb2iL7RQvIexxNFqH3br_VDUHQ80xOUmVWs2qvFY7rsiso

Hyphen-Labs is an international collective working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future. Through their global vision and multi-disciplinary backgrounds they are driven to create engaging ways to explore planetary-centered design. In the process they challenge conventions and stimulate conversations, placing collective needs and experiences at the center of evolving narratives.
http://www.hyphen-labs.com/

Juliet Schor

Connected economy project https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/sociology/connected.html

Plenitude animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-YrD_KB0M

New book
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520325050/after-the-gig

Plenitude book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7258237-plenitude

The Overworked American
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178930.The_Overworked_American



Vasilis Kostakis

The Cosmolocalism Action & Research Project
https://www.cosmolocalism.eu/



Cindy Kohtala
Miro board for FABx Rebooting Economies post-it mapping https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_koBpCjs=/

DisCO coops: Distributed Cooperative Organizations https://disco.coop

My publications https://people.aalto.fi/cindy.kohtala#publications

iPRODUCE
Delivering a novel social manufacturing platform to enable multi-stakeholder interactions and collaborations to support user-driven open-innovation and co-creation.

Concept
The iPRODUCE project introduces a novel social manufacturing platform (SMF) that embraces manufacturing companies in the consumer goods sector, their associations/ networks, Fablabs/ makers spaces, DIY communities and various other innovation players at the local level.

Objectives
The objectives of iPRODUCE are centred around several key concepts, namely: platforms and tools, establishing collaborative Manufacturing Demonstration Facilities (cMDFs), defining a SMF, developing business models and IPR, fostering integration and promoting open innovation challenges.
https://iproduce-project.eu/

In his late writings Marx contrasted the alienation of labor value in mass production with the gift economy of indigenous cultures. Rather than industrial extraction, indigenous societies circulated value in unalienated form through meaningful, collaborative exchange with both human and nonhuman partners. Marx failed to move beyond his top-down economic vision, but new opportunities have now arisen for the bottom-up generation and circulation of value in unalienated forms: peer-to-peer production such as open source software; community based agroecology; and “DIY citizenship” ranging from feminist makerspaces to queer biohacking are just some of the new possibilities. In addition to labor, we can apply the “unalienated value” concept to nonhuman (ecological) value, as well as the “expressive” value in free speech, sexuality, spirituality, and other generative performance. For all three categories (labor value, ecological value, and expressive value) we can define generative justice as follows:

The universal right to generate unalienated value and directly participate in its benefits; the rights of value generators to create their own conditions of production; and the rights of communities of value generation to nurture self-sustaining paths for its circulation.


https://generativejustice.org/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311811471_An_Introduction_to_Generative_Justice

The elitist myths of "savages" and "white trash" led to today's bigotry. Here you can counter those stereotypes with African fractals, Appalachian quilting algorithms and more. From Native beadwork to urban graffiti, students can find the “heritage algorithms” of their interest, learn their connection to STEM principles, and develop designs of their own creation.

Learn, create, and share your work with Culturally Situated Design Tools!!



https://csdt.org/

If western engineers created a bridge that was self-healing, self-strenghtening over time..




Indonesia @jembatan akar on sumatra, banten province of java, india at state of meghalaya and nagaland

Fractals are characterized by the repetition of similar patterns at ever-diminishing scales. Fractal geometry has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers on the border between mathematics and information technology and can be seen in many of the swirling patterns produced by computer graphics. It has become a new tool for modeling in biology, geology, and other natural sciences.

Anthropologists have observed that the patterns produced in different cultures can be characterized by specific design themes. In Europe and America, we often see cities laid out in a grid pattern of straight streets and right-angle corners. In contrast, traditional African settlements tend to use fractal structures-circles of circles of circular dwellings, rectangular walls enclosing ever-smaller rectangles, and streets in which broad avenues branch down to tiny footpaths with striking geometric repetition. These indigenous fractals are not limited to architecture; their recursive patterns echo throughout many disparate African designs and knowledge systems.

Drawing on interviews with African designers, artists, and scientists, Ron Eglash investigates fractals in African architecture, traditional hairstyling, textiles, sculpture, painting, carving, metalwork, religion, games, practical craft, quantitative techniques, and symbolic systems. He also examines the political and social implications of the existence of African fractal geometry. His book makes a unique contribution to the study of mathematics, African culture, anthropology, and computer simulations.

low.high.tech

Celkovo ten typek Sename Koffi je dost cool, odporucam checknut jeho talk na sympoziu nizsie (community action, 59th minute)






https://trueafrica.co/article/craft-spaces-in-togo-producing-3d-recycled-printers/
https://fr.ulule.com/wafate/
https://www.lafricainedarchitecture.com/