Community Building on Open Generic Infrastructures
A generic infrastructure is bio-equivalent to a brand or proprietary infrastructure with respect to electric and application dynamics
Bricolabs investigate new ways of scripting
new forms of solidarities with digital technology.
Bricolabs
are a loosely
organized
set of
already existing bottom up techno-cultural
labs,
r&d institutes,
academic labs and research,
and open source hardware initiatives.
They investigate the recent technological
possibilities of wireless
opportunistic ad hoc
networking, social business models (not based
on ip and patents), and educational levels of
citizens agency in
the loop of open source
content, spectrum, software and hardware.
As a new organisational model (based on open
source) of diverse
groups that share "open
objects" (open source software
AND hardware)
and knowledge about how to rework those
objects (online "how
to's), rather than
sharing similar contexts,
positions, or
objectives, they are dispersed
throughout
different localities
of technological
saturation
as diverse as London, Sao Paulo,
Riga,
Bandung, Beijing, Zagreb, Amsterdam,
Johannesburg, Brussels, Dortmund
and
Yogjakarta.
Bricolabs will investigate the
potentialities
of the combination of open societies, open
hardware and open labs. Strategic
long term aim is to create a brand neutral
and non-proprietary generic architecture of everyday infrastructures:
energy, connectivity, transportation,
research
and
policy for community building.
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