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11/12/2024

The Engage4BIO project is proud to officially launch its Design Award!

Engage4BIO set up the International Design Award to search innovative bio-based solutions that highlight the potential of biodesign in creating sustainable futures.

The “This is Bioeconomy!” International Design Award is open to students, early-career professionals, and enthusiasts in design, architecture, engineering, and other related fields from 18 to 35 years olds.

Deadline January 4

BACK TO OPEN CALLS Open Calltill January 4th, 2025 The Engage4BIO project is proud to officially launch its Design Award! INTRODUCTION Do you ever wonder how creativity can be applied to sustainability? Are you an innovator, designer, or a visionary? Then we have a challenge for you!Our project proj...

09/12/2024

As part of the More-Than-Planet program, Makery organized a conference in May 2023 on the links between the ocean and space and how artists explore these issues. On this occasion, we invited Elena E. Cirkovic, a Law researcher from the University of Helsinki and a Bioart Society member, to discuss ocean law and space law. This winter, Elena Cirkovic will publish “The Law of Complex Earth and Outer Space Systems, The Cosmolegal Proposal”, in which she proposes an exploration of the law-making paradigm for complex interactions between the Earth system and outer space in the Anthropocene era. Here are exclusive reading notes on the book to be published on March 4, 2025.

In “The Law of Complex Earth and Outer Space Systems, The Cosmolegal Proposal” Elena Cirkovic proposes an exploration of the law-making paradigm for complex interactions between the Earth system and outer space in the Anthropocene era. Here are exclusive reading notes.

08/12/2024

This spring, Makery co-produced issue 6 of the occasional newspaper The Laboratory Planet. This issue imagines a peasant and neo-peasant future, invented by global peasants, organised in diverse territories, cultivating biotopes that are more heterogeneous, more democratic and therefore more habitable. Ewen Chardronnet discusses here the discovery, the different understandings and their political meanings of the symbiosis phenomena through times.

We discuss here the discovery, the different understandings and their political meanings of the symbiosis phenomena through times.

04/12/2024

This spring, Makery co-produced issue 6 of the occasional newspaper The Laboratory Planet. This issue imagines a peasant and neo-peasant future, invented by global peasants, organised in diverse territories, cultivating biotopes that are more heterogeneous, more democratic and therefore more habitable. In this text, Leila Chakroun tells us about her experience in a satoyama, a Japanese mountain village, community-based and agroforestry, whose design and spatial and human organization are intimately linked to its natural environment.

Here, Leila Chakroun shares her experiences of a stay in a japanese satoyama, and her thoughts on an agro-ecological future inspired by it.

21/11/2024

You can now find us on BlueSky at this id:

Le magazine en ligne bilingue Fr/En des communautés culturelles et créatives DIY, pour un monde plus écologique, inclusif et ouvert. // A free online magazine, in Fr/En covering the DIY and creative communities scene since 2014.

15/11/2024

14/11/2024

From the 4th to the 9th of October, 2024, ISSA (Island School of Social Autonomy) facilitated a collective building action and series of lectures, workshops, and discussions in Vis, guided by the central theme of To Live Together. The aim was to build new ways of “being, living, and learning together beyond the ruins of capitalism” and provide an embodied “platform for contemplating a different world.”

Report by Klara Debeljak on a collective action of Island School of Social Autonomy on the Island of Vis (Croatia) to build new ways of living together.

14/11/2024

When sound and multimedia artist Johanna Sulalampi had to travel from Finland to Germany for a collaboration with Trio Abstrakt, she decided to do it by surface travel. With the support of the Projekt Atol and the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant, she embarked on a eight-night trip. A realistic alternative to flying? In this text, she explores the opportunities of sustainable travel.

When sound and multimedia artist Johanna Sulalampi had to travel from Finland to Cologne for a collaboration with Trio Abstrakt, she decided to do it by surface travel. With the support of the Projekt Atol and the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant, she embarked on a two-night trip. A re...

31/10/2024

https://www.makery.info/en/2024/10/31/english-underground-subsistence-feeding-beings-in-the-andes -of-ecuador/
This spring, Makery co-produced issue 6 of the occasional newspaper The Laboratory Planet. This issue imagines a peasant and neo-peasant future, invented by global peasants, organised in diverse territories, cultivating biotopes that are more heterogeneous, more democratic and therefore more habitable. The central section is devoted to the recent Soil Assembly initiative, and develops some of the experiences, reflections and surveys gathered within this emerging network. Pedro Soler presents here the community which will host the next soil assembly in May 2025 at the Centro Intercultural Transito Amaguaña in La Chimba, Cayambe, Ecuador.

31/10/2024

https://www.makery.info/en/2024/10/29/english-tinku-uku-pacha-in-ecuador-towards-a-second-soil-assembly-in-2025/
Concerned by the worries and hopes of COP 16 on biodiversity currently taking place in Cali, Colombia, the Soil Assembly network is taking the opportunity to promote Tinku Uku Pacha, the next international meeting dedicated to art, soil and indigenous knowledge, to be held in May 2025 at the Centro Intercultural Transito Amaguaña in Ecuador’s upper La Chimba valley, at the foot of the magnificent Cayambe volcano. Announcement by Pedro Soler.

28/10/2024

The latest camp in the BioFeral.BeachCamp series of Ionian University’s Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science program was held in Crete at the end of September. Lyn Hagan immerses us in the q***r world of the organizers and participants of this decidedly feral lab.

The latest camp in the BioFeral.BeachCamp series of Ionian University's Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence program was held in Crete at the end of September. Lynn Hagan immerses us in the q***r world of the organizers and participants of this decidedly feral lab.

15/10/2024

In July 2024, Johanna Ruotsalainen went to Lapland for an art residency. With the support of Projekt Atol and the Mobility Conversation grant, she travelled through Finland, Sweden and Norway, encountering the landscape and its musicality.

In July 2024, Johanna Ruotsalainen went to Lapland for an art residency. With the support of Projekt Atol and its Mobility grant, she travelled through Finland, Sweden and Norway, encountering the landscape and its musicality.

14/10/2024

The University of Oulu, Finland, is organizing the annual conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS), for the first time in the Nordic countries next summer, June 4–6, 2025. This is only the second time in AIS’ nearly 50-year history that the conference will be held in Europe—or outside of North America at all. In 2019, the University of Amsterdam hosted the conference, and next year it will be Oulu's turn.
Find more information in www.oulu.fi/ais2025

This is an invitiation to register and to actively contribute into the conference!

12/10/2024

https://www.makery.info/en/2024/10/12/english-feral-circuits-rewilding-electro-cultures-at-homemade-2024/

Reflections on a journey to the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society’s Homemade summer camp from July 27 to August 4, 2024 by Miranda Moss, laureate of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant.

05/10/2024

This spring, Makery co-produced issue 6 of the occasional newspaper The Laboratory Planet . This issue imagines a peasant and neo-peasant future, invented by global peasants, organised in diverse territories, cultivating biotopes that are more heterogeneous, more democratic and therefore more habitable. The central section is devoted to the recent Soil Assembly initiative, and develops some of the experiences, reflections and surveys gathered within this emerging network.This text explores the thought and work of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932), a biologist, sociologist and urban planner who was a pioneer in many fields, thinking about the relationship between town and country at the turn of the 20th century, and revolutionizing modern urban planning.

“Learn by doing”,

30/09/2024

It was with great disappointment that we were informed that, as from next year, there will no longer be any media/digital-arts focused Platform and/or Network funded through the Creative Europe programme.

For a long time, Creative Europe has sensibly focused on digitalisation as one of the priorities of the European Union's cultural programme. Contrary to this priority, in the near future no European platform nor network was approved for funding by Creative Europe.

This is inconsistent with the EUs priorities, that only recently announced further digitisation with the creation of the digital Euro, but incapacitated the cultural sector which specifically addresses, works with, and critically investigates emerging and established media technologies, policies, and/or culture by no longer offering representation in its important structural funding schemes. Although we agree with, and support the necessity of thematically oriented cooperation projects, platforms such as the European Media Art Platform have offered a horizontal approach and created production and exhibition opportunities for professionalisation for artists and organisations but also established the largest network of media arts organisations which offered major benefits to the artists and knowledge exchange between the organisations.

The discontinuation of such funding in the field of media art contradicts the European Union’s efforts to seriously address issues surrounding media illiteracy and disinformation, and it is at odds with its mission to foster a strong European media creative industry. It places this already precarious sector at a disadvantage as structures, ethical practices, and methodologies that have been meticulously developed over many years with the support of Creative Europe must now be dismantled until EU funding is reinstated.

In times of global insecurity instigated by extremists who attack our democracies, through the algorithmically promoted proliferation of misinformation advocating xenophobia, religious hatred, racial, and gender bias, and environmental degradation denialism using digital technologies such as the social media platforms, instant messaging group chats, forums, and the dark web, the new media sector for years has addressed, and sometimes provided prototypes of the necessary ecological and social transformation tools and processes needed to improve our failing ecological, political, economic, and social structures. It appears incomprehensible to us that the commission no longer offers a corresponding programme that can support this work and diminish the only sector that is for many years critically engaging with, and addressing these very important structural problems.

The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) is an example of the good work that platforms, as open cascading grant funding models, can achieve.
In the 7 years of its existence EMAP has supported 150 artists and co-produced with them 91 projects which received 54 international awards including the European Short Film Price and had been exhibited widely internationally including the Centre Pompidou, the Venice Architecture Biennale or The Barbican and connects next to 16 European members also 150 international partner organisations.

We believe that there is an urgent need for action on the part of the European Union, to reinstate a European platform with sufficient funding to produce new critically imagined media works and support and promote emerging European artists.

This petition is meant to be signed by institutions, museums, media labs, other organisations, academics, scholars, curators, and artists who wish to express their concern about the cancellation of specific European support for the new media and digital creative sectors and industries in a politically, socially, economically, and environmentally unstable climate when this support is more vitally needed than ever, not only for the cultural sector, but also because of the accelerated, alarming changes we are witnessing in all aspects of our physical, digital, and systemic environments.

https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-europe-s-continuous-structural-support-of-the-digital-media-arts

Petition for Europe's continuous structural support of the digital / media arts

24/09/2024

https://www.makery.info/en/2024/09/20/comment-les-sols-prototypent/

This spring, Makery co-produced issue 6 of the occasional newspaper The Laboratory Planet. This issue imagines a peasant and neo-peasant future, invented by global peasants, organised in diverse territories, cultivating biotopes that are more heterogeneous, more democratic and therefore more habitable. The central section is devoted to the recent Soil Assembly initiative, and develops some of the experiences, reflections and surveys gathered within this emerging network. In this text Regenerative Energy Communities imagine infrastructures otherwise and design practices that can flip paradigms, embrace grimy creativity and ferment revolt.