Free/Libre Technologies, Arts and the Commons

An Unconference about Art, Design, Technology, Making, Cities and their
Communities

What kind of creativity comes after today’s digital cultures? After the smart city, post- surveillance, post-innovation, when social entrepreneurship discourse has ran its course?

In the last few years there has been a sharp momentum in the growth of groups and spaces that operate under collective and community-driven structures of collaboration and shared learning processes (onsite and online). This is happening in parallel to debates about the fate of the commons (physical, digital, and creative), and about openness and freedom of access. Our societies are at the same time, reeling from the effects of connectivity and social media just as we try to understand their potential and limitations for civic improvement, mobilization and/or abuse, and their extensions into socially and community orientated art and design.

In our times of digital communalities, bringing together issues related to art, design, technology, governance, and the commons, also means to reflect on contemporary discourses of openness and freedom, and to redefine the ways we produce and share knowledge, not least about new possibilities of production and sharing in themselves.

Considering our digital realisms and increasingly disparate lived realities, we wish to explore examples and approaches to activism in relation to social movements around making and sharing, critical artistic practices, and their related technological shifts. Especially as pockets of our cities are being transformed into creative and entrepreneurial hubs, and new setups of collective knowledge production blend into processes of urbanisation, regeneration and issues related to the smart city and its mechanisms of surveillance.

Invited Speakers
 Richard Stallman
 Silvia Federici
 Gregory Sholette
 Luiz Guilherme Vergara
 Johan Soderberg
 Gabriele de Seta
 Lynn Jones & Harriet Poppy Speed
 Ruth Catlow

Times:
30/05: 18:00-21:00
31/05: 09:00-19:00
01/06: 10:00-17:30