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And she fell for her own shadow

While others came closer

Then many were one

(post updated 31 aug, 20h29)

Heathrow. Oyster card. Tube. Clouds. Brasilian. Brasilian. Brasilian. Japanese. Brasilian. Indian. Paneer. Masala. Samosa. Water. Accent. Bus. Thames. Tower bridge. Tesco. Tired. Couchsurfing. Little sleep. Night. Beer. Fox. Bus. Club. Freedom. Pvtaria. Waaaaaait in the Bus station. Kingdom, reino. Sleep.

English breakfast. Beans!? Tea. Notting Hill. Soldados de chumbo. Blind guitar duo. People. Comics. People. People. Pub.

Camden. Stables. Lock. Stalls. 25 de Marco Mundo Mix. Cyberdog. Indian food, cheap & good. Horse hospital. Fine. Worlds end. More beer at home.

Shakespeare´s Globe. Thames. Bramah tea. Parliament. Tate Britain. Exhibition Road. Imperial College. Southkensington. Tube. Bermondsey.

Tube. Heathrow.

London reminds me of Porto Alegre. Nothing specific, but does indeed.

Cheers, mate!

Pictures on flickr.

Ten days ago, I have sent this message to the bricolabs mailing list: leia mais >>

Bricolabs are a collective answer for demands common to a lot of people all around the world these days. How do we share knowledge in order to create an effective and viable innovation network that is both self-organized and productive. How do we not only foster the creation of new uses for technologies, but awake a deeper, more intimate relationship between people and information, supported by open hardware, free and open source software and freely available knowledge and content.

Bricolabs should operate like a self-organised network, following a set of consensual governance principles and allowing a dynamic composition of its constituting nodes according to different possible objectives.

Just sent this email to the people involved with the panel I'd be joining in IETM plenary session "Technophobia vs Technophilia", this week in Montreal.

I think that following this kind of perspective I could be seen
as leaning to technophilia, although assuming a critical position.
I'm part of a network here in Brasil - MetaReciclagem - that
proposes a de-constructive approach to technology, meaning
an almost intimate human-machine relationship. But that does
not mean we are seduced by the so techno-fetishism that is
unfortunately so common. We criticize exactly the programmed
obsolescence of technologies - why shouldn't our equipment
last longer if we knew how to do it, hack it, customize it?
Coming from that, the more intimate we get to technology -
free and open source software, freeing hardware and the
such - likely more open are the possibilities.

I mean, I'm talking here of a kind of sensibility and a kind
of perspective in which technology should not be seen as
something apart from human culture. Technology is culture,
technology is human. It's a matter of understanding technology
in a broader sense - a toothbrush, an axe, the ability to control
fire and language, are all examples of technology, of knowledge
applied in order to make life easier.

One could spend some time talking about greek drama and the
idea of machina - deus ex machina and all that stuff. In that
sense, technology and the performing arts can always bring
back the idea of ritualizing the use of applied knowledge. A
flying belt or a sensor-arduino-pd-operated PC are all in the
same level, as I see it.

If João Bricola, why wouldn't you?

O governo brasileiro fez crescentes despesas para a construção de estradas de ferro, equipamentos de portos, melhoramentos urbanos, etc. Foram largamente financiadas por recursos externos. E um bom exemplo dessa expansão econômica com recursos estrangeiros, que chegou às terras de Osasco, é o banqueiro João Brícola. Ele veio ao Brasil para trabalhar como engenheiro na Estrada de Ferro Paulista e após o término da obra da ferrovia, comprou, em sociedade, um comércio de secos e molhados, importações e câmbio. O nome era João Brícola, Gatti & Cia., em sociedade com Mariano Gatti, Carlos Fenili e João Marques.

http://www.camaraosasco.sp.gov.br/osasco/historia/index7.htm

Ceci né pá uma brincadeira

Nem Peri

Nem saci

Né, nasci

Ontem folheei um livro didático de língua francesa. Deu até tédio.

Short

Felipe Fonseca is a brasilian media activist and researcher working with technological appropriation, low tech experimentation, free (livre) and open source multimedia software, open licensing and online collaboration.

Felipe is an articulator of projects such as MetaReciclagem, an emergent brasilian movement that gather people and projects related to the deconstruction of information technologies; DesCentro, a de-centralized research organisation; and Bricolabs, an international network of experimental labs.

Felipe has acted also as a consultant for the brasilian Ministry of Culture in the Cultura Digital project, that brought critical ICT use for more than 600 cultural centers throughout Brasilian territory. Worked also with weblab, building collaborative online networks and developing projects such as Lixo Eletrônico, a weblog about e-waste, and Mutirão da Gambiarra, a series of publications about the MetaReciclagem network.

He is currently working with the Brasilian Ministry of Culture articulating a collaborative strategy for experimental labs called Redelabs.