How to Organize: Money Talks

2025-08-21T12:30:10Z

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H&D will contribute to this event, organized by [[Varia]]

More info: https://varia.zone/en/how-to-organise-25.html

Hope to see you there!
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How to Organize: Money Talks

2025-08-21T12:29:30Z

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H&D will contribute to this event, organized by [[Varia]]

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2025-08-21T11:49:45Z

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Ren (Loren) Britton

2025-08-21T11:49:15Z

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Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer who reverberates with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Trans*feminist technoscience in their work follows the long wiggle of cyberfeminism; focusing on trans*, as in, transgender and trans*, as in, crossing contexts with feminist concerns. They are interested in the ways that socio technical systems & media makes lives accessible and pleasurable. Departing from the understanding that we live in an ableist white supremacist world, and therefore to be able to follow a justice oriented direction, their work begins from the assumption that we must rethink the terms of who fits where in all places, all scales, with what friction (or not) and why. This set of considerations brings them to their interest in disability justice which upholds and values all non-normative bodies and minds.

Ren (Loren) Britton

2025-08-21T11:48:47Z

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Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer who reverberates with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Trans*feminist technoscience in their work follows the long wiggle of cyberfeminism; focusing on trans*, as in, transgender and trans*, as in, crossing contexts with feminist concerns. They are interested in the ways that socio technical systems & media makes lives accessible and pleasurable. Departing from the understanding that we live in an ableist white supremacist world, and therefore to be able to follow a justice oriented direction, their work begins from the assumption that we must rethink the terms of who fits where in all places, all scales, with what friction (or not) and why. This set of considerations brings them to their interest in disability justice which upholds and values all non-normative bodies and minds.

Connecting Through Seams Workshop

2025-08-21T11:47:46Z

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''connecting through seams'' brings together collective experiences and expressions of Hackers & Designers with [https://www.lorenbritton.com/ Ren Loren Britton] that challenge impersonal, techno-slick aesthetics prevalent in today’s digital design.

Hackers & Designers with Ren Loren Britton engages metaphorical and practical seams of collective technological praxis. Embracing collective authorship, imperfection and ongoing process, the work reflects H&D's commitment to free/libre open-source principles – challenging impersonal, techno-slick aesthetics prevalent in today’s digital design. What brings us together is a shared sense of urgency: the need to reimagine how we relate to technologies and to each other in the face of systems that often fail us.

This research night will explore how these seams – the boundaries of intersections between systems – can serve as points of connection between communities and technologies. This will be considered through witnessing the edges of collective and community-based technological practices.

The evening will focus on the tension and possibilities at these edges: from the edginess of power dynamics (both the power relations among people and within the technologies we use), to the frameworks of collaboration that share our research practices. We will investigate the limits of "use"– especially when we hack and invent towards dismantling structures that don’t serve us - whether socially, or by engaging our self-hosted servers.

Through a series of collective discussions and hands-on activities, participants will collectively learn about and with the seams present in H&D's and Ren's work for DMOL and learn how to technically engage them – particularly using e-ink readers present during the event.

'''The event is free and open to the public.'''

== About the installation connecting through seams ==

connecting through seams brings together collective experiences and expressions of Hackers & Designers with Ren Loren Britton. In making a soft interface, the makers explored the metaphorical and practical seams of collective technological praxis. Embracing imperfection, collective authorship, and ongoing process the work reflects H&D's commitments to free/libre open-source principles – challenging impersonal, techno-slick aesthetics prevalent in today’s digital design.

Visitors of ''connecting through seams'' are invited to contribute to the patchwork by connecting to WiFi modules sewn into the fabric. Scanning the QR code grants access to the local WiFi network and opens a pop-up interface.

== Credits ==

Concept and design:
Ren Loren Britton
Anja Groten
Pernilla Manjula Philip

Development:
Heerko van der Kooij

This work is a continuation and extension of H&D's collective practice. H&D currently consists of nine members who form the ‘H&D COOP,’ a decentralized organization that aims to distribute power over decision making. H&D COOP members are: Loes Bogers (NL), Selby Gildemacher (NL), Anja Groten (DE), Heerko van der Kooij (NL), Juliette Lizotte (FR), Pernilla Manjula Philips (SE), Karl Moubarak (LB), slvi.e / Sylvie van Wijk (NL) and vo ezn (GE).

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Image Description: A series of online and offline experiments snake through the screen. Sewn lines connecting to wires that are sewn into fabrics connected to digital graphics depicting ESP modules move in and out of focus with a lot of movement between many parts of the image. It feels like an exercise in connecting very briefly where somethings come together and others fall apart. There are materials and textures and digital materialities scattered across the image in various connections and disconnections. There are also many icons of the app ’Signal’ indicating the messages are being received, and the backdrop for the collage is a Jitsi (an open source video conferencing system) call.

== RSVP ==
Rsvp via: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/connecting-through-seams

Hackers & Designers
Hackers & Designers (H&D) is a collective whose members bring together technology, art, design and education. The group organises learning programmes, builds open-source tools, manages its own technical infrastructure and creates experimental publications. H&D operates on the basis of collaboration and shared ownership.

Ren Loren Britton
Ren Loren Britton is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work addresses transfeminism, technology and disability justice. Through critical explorations of accessibility and inequality, they examine how we can interact differently with bodies, technologies and societal systems.

Connecting Through Seams Workshop

2025-08-21T11:34:34Z

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Open Lab Journal

2025-03-24T08:53:28Z

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HD Bulletin 5

2025-03-03T10:34:45Z

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== Introduction ==
=== Unruly Currents ===
This 5th iteration of the bulletin has been created during the days leading up to the H&D Summer Camp 2024 "Unruly Currents & Everyday Piracy". Throughout the course of weeks we will set up a temporary H&D village for the 2nd time, together with 30 co-inhabitants at 'Het Wilde Weg', a campsite in Sint-Oedenrode, the Netherlands. Here, we will look for ways of slipping through the confinements of oppressive regimes of BIG TECH and the mainstream. We will rejoin collective energies and drift away from the prevalent notions of "ownership", "property", "newness" and "innovation," to slidetowards a temporary autonomous zone defined by "reclaiming", "reusing", "redistributing", "copying", "studying" and "transformation." *
"The TAZ [temporary autonomous zone] is like an uprising which does not engage directly with the State, a guerilla operation which liberates an area (of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself to re-form elsewhere/
elsewhen."1
Suspending pressures of efficiency and productivity we imagine and foster other space-times that are marked by refusal and will disperse before becoming static and finite. We hope for the camp to become a fold, a crack in time and a space to experiment with alternative forms of co-living and regenerative forms of collective organisation. Much like autonomous squats, anti-capitalist climate care protest, autonomous tech cooperatives and spontaneous illegal raves, we imagine this year's summer camp as an island of insurrection that sticks out in a sea of techno-obedience.

In The Earthly Community: Reflections on the Last Utopia (2022) postcolonial thinker and historian Achille Mbembe wonders whether it is possible to turn instruments of calculation and power into instruments of liberation. He argues that more-than-human knowledge of how to pass from one world, or one form to another, is a question that most ancient African myths and ancestral knowledge has tried to address by inventing and using objects such as masks lithurgical materials or throwing sticks (Mbembe, 9.). The power such techniques have is to sustain life and increase energetic and restorative potential rather than exploitative potential that has become paramount in the global North. With this definition of power Mbembe proposes paradoxical ethics of disappropriation – in contrast to appropriation and conquest – that aims to multiply reserves of life (Mbembe, 123.). 2

How to approach concepts such as disappropriation and sabotage as forms of resistance as much as solidarity?

During the organisation of the camp, we have been inspired by this notion of disappropriation and the related social and political attitude of piracy. We will explore the intergenerational imaginaries around piracy as a verb. Defiant as punks, resilient and inventive as hacktivists, witty as tricksters, everyday piracy will orient us in navigating against the tide of the mainstream and subvert dominant digital and political paradigms.

We see this temporary autonomous zone of the summer camp as a preparation, for implementing other forms of co-existence across differences. It's not a fiction but a framework for everyday practice of kin-making, self-realisation and peer-to-peer education. The summer camp is a collective experience that creates formats for alternative pedagogies and grounds for new communities to blossom.

In the Swiss activist publishing project Nous Sommes Partout (We Are Everywhere)3, a text signed by El. invites to engage in everyday piracy through a list of simple actions anyone could take. For this publication, we have put together contributions reflecting on practices of everyday piracy from a theorethical and practical angle -- ranging from hacking time to repurposing single use lithium cells of neon colored vapes littering the streets of London, alongside a review and reflection of H&D's smol (or not so smol) renewed website. We furthermore revive and extend the invitation of of Nous Sommes Partout by republishing their text everyday piracy and propose to add to the list:
...exploring free libre open source tools and attitudes,
...divesting from proprietary tools and paradims,
...organising horizontally, prioritizing the use of libre fonts made by womxn,
...documenting our acitivities to be able to disseminate our collective knowledges across different communities of practice and across different geographies,
...working towards accessible spaces, creating safe(r) spaces for sharing knowledge....
Quote from Hakim Bay's TAZ (1984), https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism#toc45
Achille Mbembe, The Earthly Community: Reflections on the Last Utopia (2022)
https://www.noussommespartout.org/

=== Table of Contents ===
*Introduction
*Everyday Piracy, [[Nous Sommes Partout]]
*Power Saving Mode, [[Thomas Rosser]]
*Steering Crip Time, [[MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr)]], [[Hackers & Designers, [[Pernilla Manjula Philip]], [[Anja Groten]], [[Heerko van der Kooij]]
*Smol or Not, [[Karl Moubarak]], [[André Fincato]]
*Colophon

=== Colophon ===
The H&D Bulletin is an occasional publication that brings together practical and reflective articles, conversations, scripts and manuals, experimental, poetic, visual, or otherwise speculative contributions from H&D coop members, critical friends, guests, and participants of our activities.
The bulletins are published on the H&D website, and the H&D mailing list, and circulated via our social media channels. Printed versions are distributed through the H&D network whenever there is an opportunity.

This edition of the H&D bulletin was assembled, edited and designed using Etherport
Etherport is an open-source, free-to-use tool developed especially for cultural organizations which can be used to create print and online publications from one and the same code.
Etherport is based on the tool patchwork Ethertoff, which includes Etherpad (collaborative text editor), Django (framework), and Paged.js (paged media polyfill). It was developed by [http://osp.kitchen/ Open Source Publishing] and the [https://networkcultures.org/ Institute of Network Cultures] in the context of the research project [Going Hybrid https://networkcultures.org/goinghybrid/].

=== Read Bulletin ===
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=== Purchase Bulletin ===
To purchase printed matter for 8,00 + shipping costs send an email to [mailto:info@hackersanddesigners.nl info@hackersanddesigners.nl]

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Check also our [[HD Bulletin 1|first]], [[HD Bulletin 2 | second]] and [[HD Bulletin 3 | third]] [[HD Bulletin 4 | fourth]] bulletin.

'''With the kind support of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie'''

Free Wiki

2025-02-20T13:25:46Z

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Free Wiki was launched last year 21-23 July 2017, as a tool for the FREE design educators workshop initiated by [http://www.workshopproject.org/ Workshop Project] (Jessica Wexler and Yasmin Khan).
This year they will keep using it in the second edition, taking place in San Fransisco

Workshop Project Wiki was designed and developed in June 2017 for Workshop Project as an experiment in design education by Anja Groten and André Fincato from Hackers & Designers –using DokuWiki– an open source, wiki software that doesn't require a database, using a clean and readable markdown syntax.
Workshop Project Wiki (WPW) is a growing archive of radical and experimental proposals for design education, curricula and pedagogy.

==The Structure==
Editors can read, edit and create articles and use the embedded note pad, a real-time collaborative editing tool that comes with every article. The combination of wiki articles and note pads offers an infrastructure to collaborate on writing syllabi, resource lists, manifestos, curricula, etc. The note pads can be used to draft, brainstorm and set agendas. The wiki articles offer a more elaborate form of editing, and can be used to finalize and structure text as well as add media such as images and videos.

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2025-02-20T13:25:01Z

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2025-02-20T13:24:56Z

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2024-11-20T21:15:20Z