Reflecting on the experiences of co-creating Nubialin, and instigating a second Felucca Festival to further empower the community and deepen connections it’s difficult to know where to start the documentation process. The outputs were numerous as was the learning. I shall attempt to put some structure to the overwhelming quantity of insights and results of the organic processes used […]
Category Archives: Chaordination
Mutual Development – A prototype to create opportunities for growth, learning and experience on the banks of the Nile
The Nile is the source of life in Egypt, where water flows, life grows and thrives on its banks. How could we also use this medium to give people access to knowledge, opportunities to connect and learn? It is knowledge that gives us power to adapt ourselves and environment to meet our needs. Each of […]
Work happens often in the gaps.
In my line of work, work happens in the gaps, when you’re not stressed but relaxed. When you tell someone a story and it grows with them. When you intertwine their dreams with the reality you manufacture together. When you are all inspired. It doesn’t happen at the laptop, not if you’re working with people […]
Sharing in Aswan
I’ve been practicing openly sharing for the last few years, and it has without a doubt transformed my life. I wouldn’t be writing this in Aswan now if it hadn’t. But it’s become second nature to me, and the people with whom I spend my time, that sometimes I forget how transformative it can be. […]
Reboot
To reboot a crashed society, we must remove our urge for control. We must be free to explore alternatives.
Experiments in Autonomy: Reflections on The Makerplatz
Photo: Kay Strasser One could view everything in our world as a collection of prototypes available to be changed. In these interesting times, we have all the tools in the world, all that is needed is a conversation to start the (re)making. Welcome to Berlin’s Makerplatz. By Jay Cousins Our dominant cultural paradigm has been, […]
Consume less energy you must – Energy Saving Yoda and the joy of making stuff up as you go.
Energyhack – Yoda from Christian Jacob on Vimeo. We’re last up, the tension has been building, last minute hacking and scrambling as the tension builds. The Yoda Head completed it’s 3d print (big thanks to FabLab Berlin) as the first presentation started, I drilled out it’s eyes with a “for the camera” psycho glare (I […]
Chaordinators Toolbox: The Planning Party (Human Rights MakerLab case study)
The MakerLab is an autonomous event, it’s a co-created action. This autonomy functions best within a frame (note: I still need to write the post on frame design), and has to begin somewhere. The Planning Party marks the beginning of opening the process – an event catalyst to begin actions, inspire and create opportunities for […]
Waste Based Innovation Project
Last year Christophe Valliant and I, had the pleasure of working with students from HFG Karlsruhe developing concepts building on our research project with Fraunhofer ISI, the initial trend outcomes of which can be found here. For this project students were invited to consider the opportunities presented by so called waste materials, and in doing […]
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