This is a very nicely designed site and the lab looks very elegant and
professional. The photos are excellent. But it may be worth considering
noting the location of the lab more prominently. People in this forum
might easily deduce this project being in Greece, having heard much
about the activity and folks involved previously, but the random visitor
will only be able to find the location noted on the 'contacts' page. It
might help to note location on a few more pages, particularly on the
'about' and 'facilities' pages.
I'm very interested in the 'design global, manufacture local' aspect of
the planned research and am wondering if there are project plans for
local experimental implementation in Greece or if the plan is, for now,
just to document projects of other organizations and programs. My own
Open House project (
http://www.appropedia.org/Open_House:_Building_an_Open_Source_Lifestyle
) is looking to do something similar or related by cataloging, and
eventually showcasing with a video documentary, the open source designs
necessary for a functional owner/local-built lifestyle. There's a
certain focus on personal 'unplugging' in this (ie. the use of new
production on the household/personal level to unplug from market
dependency) but I also intend to illustrate the potential in the
community context as well. It's one of a number of concepts I've been
exploring recently to apply the approach of 'living museums' (like the
many viking or bronze age village re-creations in Europe or the colonial
era villages in the US) to the exhibition of future culture and
lifestyle rather than their usual focus on the distant past.
I think that one of the key things that could facilitate a grounding of
theory into practice is to look at the logistics of lifestyle; how our
daily routine actually works as a system to meet our needs at a given
standard-of-living. Those living museums go to great lengths to
illustrate for the public how past, pre-industrial, lifestyle
functioned, but, ironically, we generally have a very dim awareness of
how our lifestyles actually work in the present, let alone the near
future. This is because the market system conceals its workings from
us--now putting much of them in other distant countries--leaving us
industrially illiterate and unable to imagine viable alternatives. And
so we interface to the market as though it were an enormous vending
machine, its inner workings mysterious and locked away, our means of
interaction strictly limited to just a coin slot and some buttons as
designed by--and suiting the interests of--whoever built this thing. As
I often say, as far as the average American is concerned, the
supermarket gets restocked each night by Santa Claus and his Chinese
elves. And this results in a lot of difficulty when we try to implement
alternative infrastructures or attempt to create intentional
communities. People are always underestimating just how much goes into
maintaining their standard of living since they've never seen anything
but the front end of that great vending machine and rely largely on
fractured and romanticized myths about life in the past to imagine some
'simpler' life without it. People are always thinking living off the
land is as easy as a cob cottage with a victory garden until that day
they're drawing straws to see who gets to give the axe to one of the
chickens they named. Maybe we should be reverse-engineering our
lifestyles as a start to hacking that machine, revealing its inner
workings, and re-engineering it to suit our interests.
Subject:
[P2P-F] Fwd: P2P Lab: Papers, Call & Plans for 2016
From:
Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>
Date:
10/13/15, 8:32 AM
To:
p2p-foundation <[email protected]>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Vasilis Kostakis* <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:18 PM
Subject: P2P Lab: Papers, Call & Plans for 2016
To:
Dear colleagues and friends,
In this email you may find links to the published work of the P2P Lab
collaborators & fellows for 2015. You may also find of interest our
call for visiting scholars as well as our plans for 2016.
Best,
Vasilis Kostakis
*------------*
--
Eric Hunting
[email protected]
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