1. Tools for survival meetup: 'Technical therapy' Do you have technological problems? Do you want to code something but don't know where to start? Do you need to use a new tool, but aren't sure how to? Try technical therapy! This meetup, builds upon Denise Ferreria da Silva & Valentina Desideri's 'Political Therapy' and will take up 'Technical Therapy' as a practice that thwarts normative colonial measures of technological practice like: quantification, efficiency and productivity. Instead in 'Technical Therapy' sessions, either group, or individual; we will consider what the problem is; identifying tools we might need to approach problems and generate possibilities for attending to these problems that are in constant flux. Sometimes the 'therapists' will be intentionally unseating hierarchies between patients/ therapists/ tools we consider each position as mutable so it can become undone in what it comes to normatively represent. Tools will have problems that need solving, therapists will too - patients will become therapists and have answers and methods of approach. A question will be played with in our practice around what it means to fix: when you fix a broken tool: what do you fix? Do you fix the world that rendered that tool necessary for navigating oppressive systems? Or do you restore it to its previous function so it can continue doing what it's designed for-work? Questions that might prompt someone to sign up for a therapy session could be: 'How do I build up the confidence to start working with the terminal on my computer more rather than the GUI?' or 'How do I use this jackhammer?' or 'How do I refuse technical (GAFAM) giants in my working processes?'. Participants: A roaming ambulant therapy pop-up where people can try different tools to approach or 'expose' problems as well as different kinds of 'medicines' like 'coding', 'opening up the technology'. These low threshold engagements become a way to promote our workshops next to our regular H&D channels. Dates: August 2025 – December 2025 Partner/collaborator: Ren Britton (MELT) Ren Loren Britton (Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer who holds values that reverberate with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Their work practices with loving accountability towards collaboration, accessibility, trans*gender politics and critical technical praxis. https://lorenbritton.com/) Location: H&D Studio, NDSM Pernilla to Ren: this really got chopped. But maybe we can squeeze in a bit more to make it flow a bit better? I hope you dont feel discoraged by the chopps and changes. We can make it anyway we like once the application is through ______________________________ END :) ______________________________ ______ Proposal Activity: Technical therapy Do you have technological problems? Do you want to code something but don't know where to start? Do you need to use a new tool, but aren't sure how to? Try technical therapy! Technical "Therapy" problematizes both terms within its title. Technical, meaning those practices that engage with care in socio-technical systems that world the kinds of worlds around us and have to do with the tools that we use that shape our worlds as we shape them back. And therapy, a practice of attuning to and identifying what the 'problem' is in group and individual settings and trying out possible strategies to change the 'problem' into a 'possibility' - without the presence of "real" therapists. This research line, intended as a riff off on Denise Ferreria da Silva & Valentina Desideri's 'Political Therapy' will take up 'Technical Therapy' as a practice that thwarts normative colonial measures of technological practice like: quantification, efficiency and productivity. Instead in 'Technical Therapy' sessions, either group, or individual; we will consider what the problem is; identifying tools we might need to approach problems and generate possibilities for attending to these problems that are in constant flux. Working against notions of expertise, we will define who takes up each of the roles in each of the therapy sessions. Sometimes the 'therapists' will be 'patients' and 'tools' will sometimes be 'therapists' too. By intentionally unseating hierarchies between patients/ therapists/ tools we consider each position as mutable and so that it can become undone in what it comes to normatively represent. Tools will have problems that need solving, therapists will too - patients will become therapists and have answers and methods of approach. A question will be played with in our practice around what it means to fix: when you fix a broken tool: what do you fix? Do you fix the world that rendered that tool necessary for navigating oppressive systems? Or do you restore it to its previous function so it can continue doing its designed for-work? Questions that might prompt someone to sign up for a therapy session could be: 'How do I build up the confidence to start working with the terminal on my computer more rather than the GUI?' or 'How do I use this jackhammer?' or 'How do I refuse techincal (GAFAM) giants in my working processes?'. Through a series of imagined roles through dedicated sessions we will queer what 'help' means and open up the space to question the series of operations that led us to feel like we don't have the confidence to pick up the tools and play around. In this way we will refuse care dynamics that stabalize who needs help and who is the helper. In Technical Therapy we are not offering a service, rather we are opening up a shifting set of relations where the 'problem' is located and what is the 'problem' are open to interpretation as well as what the 'solution' might be remains open for invention too. The therapy sessions might look like: confidence building workshops, coding something together, daring to type something into the terminal or working with bread boards and simple electronics. Throughout this research we will develop roles for ourselves like 'technical expert', ' bibliomancy expert', 'novice fake therapist', 'experienced fake therapist'. By assembling these roles and playing with 'how to do things' and 'what to do' we will invent new practices of questioning technology that move towards unpacking the messy relations of what problems and technical solutions look/feel like in the first place and explore co-learning skills along the way. Questioning 'knowledge production' by looking at the multiple ways that knowledge is passed on, by/to whom it is passed on and what methods can be used. Embracing the joy of being/feeling brave, with the support of peers and the warmth and myth of external experts. ___ Activity: - Individual Therapy Pop Up - --> A roaming ambulant therapy pop-up where people can drop in and bring us their problems. We have different tools to approach or 'expose' the problems as well as different kinds of 'medicines' like 'coding', 'opening up the technology'. Participants: 5-8 visitors per day (on 5 locations) Each induvidual session 15-20 minutes Location: NDSM Open 2025, OBA Library, Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Buurtwerkplaats Cliffordstraat Scenario: a visitor comes into the ambulant therapy room and explains a problem they experience is [they don't know how to share a an entry from their contacts list via whatsapp, fear of using a powertool, living with a chronic flat bicycle tyre] what follows is a [diagnostic/speculative/reframing] conversation based on conversational guideline cards developed by the ambulant therapists. The conversation results in a performative action to regain a sense of agency on the situation e.g.[designing a beautiful personal business card for this person and send that as a picture, write a love letter to the hammer-drill, become a usermanual] - Group Therapy Session - --> 2-3 sessions. In a series of group session we invite participants to join fluid roles of being the doctor/therapist and being a patient by reframing who has problems and who has answers. We will continually change roles throughout the session as we collaborate to reframe issues and test possibilities. The group sessions are more in-depth than the induvidual sessions and offers a possibility to support eachother. Character cards: We will play a game using character cards developed to think through and question what tech therapy might mean and establish the knowledge present in a given space. The cards function to helps participants establish their expertise on a 'problem' and also to name their needs when it comes to a group tech therapy session. Participants: The group session participants will partly come from the induvidual sessions. The induvidual sessions one way to promote our workshops next to our regular H&D channels. Location: H&D studio (NDSM) Dates: August 2025 – December 2025 By: Ren Loren Britton (Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer who holds values that reverberate with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Their work practices with loving accountability towards collaboration, accessibility, trans*gender politics and critical technical praxis. https://lorenbritton.com/) & Pernilla Manjula Philip (H&D) Location: Amsterdam Budget suggestion: PERSONNELE COSTS 50 Euro p/h: 22 hours - coördinatie overall coordination: e.g. hours to monitor the budget, take care of initial meeting 14 hours - conceptontikkeling e.g. meetings and work sesions to develop the project 6 hours - werving & promotie STICKERS & OTHER merch e.g. writing and publishing promotional texts, designing poster/flyer, finding channels to publish 20 hours - Technische ontwikkeling e.g. technical development, writing code, exploring tools, testing 40 hours - host/moderator/facilitator e.g. hrs for somebody to act as host or moderator or facilitate a workshop 30 hours - productie e.g. production of the event (transport materials, buy snacks, write access note, communicate w venue, make "draaiboek" for the event) 0 hours - externe adviseur e.g. if you want to invite an external expert to give feedback or input o hours - verslaglegging e.g. photography or radio, writing report for website and/or bullletin MATERIAL COSTS: 150 Euro - drukkosten en productiekosten e.g. getting things printed and/or bound omewhere, getting merch produced 550 Euro - workshopmaterialen e.g. electronics, craft materials 450 Euro - reiskosten & accommodatie e.g. public transport, flights, hotel 0 Euro - portokosten e.g. postage costs (to send out publications or merch) 250 Euro - materiaalhuur e.g. renting a van, solar trailer, 5 harps 0 Euro - locatiehuur e.g. renting an event location 130 Euro - catering e.g. drinks from AH, or hiring a caterer INCOME: 200 Euro? – lunch contribution + merch sales ____ From Loes: Hey @all when making your budgets could you also think about possible income? This could be eg. * contribution from a partner * additional subsidy (eg cultuurparticipatie) * ticket sales (I agree, Pernilla, that we could charge a lil' for the group sessions and then make lunch, another idea I had was like selling stickers that advertise the project too? (merch can be fun!)) YES merch!!! Especially the last one (audience income) is important because per project the accountant looks if theres VAT taxed income from 3rd party (i.e. ticket sales) as a condition for being able to get VAT returns on our expenses within that project. If you dont love the idea of entrance fee maybe it helps to do some construction where entrance fee includes drinks/lunch/a publication/merch. That way visitors pay for that, not for the event itself but we can still apply for the tax benefit. Cheers! Activity: - Individual Therapy Pop Up - --> 5 time roaming ambulant therapy pop up where people can drop in and bring us their problems. A few different tools to approach or 'expose' the problems. We have different kinds of 'medicines' like 'coding', 'opening up the technology', 'laying all of the options on the table' and trying things out like 'drilling open the wall'. (LB) maybe add: who is it for? how many people? duration? locations (and why those?) It could help to illustrate with one concrete scenario, something along these lines: a visitor comes into the ambulant therapy room and explains a problem they experience is [they don't know how to share a an entry from their contacts list via whatsapp] what follows is a [diagnostic/speculative/reframing] conversation based on conversational guideline cards developed by the ambulant therapists. The conversation results in a performative action to regain a sense of agency on the situation e.g.[designing a beautiful personal business card for this person and send that as a picture instead] blablabla. (LB) NDSM Open in October next year could be really great occasion? There's lots of performative stuff happening and we have the open studio. - Group Therapy Session at (H&D) NDSM - --> 2-3 sessions. In a group session we play with roles - we don't know what's going to come out of it. Character cards: this helps participants to establish their expertise on a 'problem' and also to name their needs when it comes to a group tech therapy session. The roles of characters between who has problems and who has answers will continually change throughout the session. (LB) suggestion: maybe this could be worded a little more concretely while keeping it open. E.g.something like "we will play a game using character cards developed to think through and question what tech therapy might mean and establish all the knowledge present in a given space." >> I imagine this will be more in depth. How do the 3 sessions progress? It doesn't have to have a concrete result or outcome but maybe you can make more concrete what you want to make space for/explore and how they follow-up on one another. What you hope people take away from it: maybe reframe how they look at something, find confidence, find peer support, other? >> also here: who is it for? Do you imagine different participants for the individual vs the group therapy sessions? Dates: August 2025 – December 2025 By: Ren Loren Britton (Bio), Pernilla Manjula Philip (Bio) + H&D Location: Amsterdam Flexible Roles: - therapists - patients - tools - Traveling theater/therapy (an ambulance more than a hospital) --> Varia was making a promotion for a kid, a van - a bakfiets - Coding something together, daring to type something into the terminal or working with bread boards and simple electronics - Could we give some love and attention to the look of the tools? Like paint the jackhammer with colours, stickers and text. Maybe we can do this to rental tools from the Blauwe Duime so others who rents the tool after its therapy session will get ripples from our vibe. And also testing out the tools brrrrrrap - Group and Individual Therapy - Pop up in places? we come in, where people normally go, a quick therapy session in a pop up tent - social workshops? Setting: - What is therapy? (good question, now that you say it I realize so many things are theraputic. Does it need to be framed at this stadge?) References: https://www.natpyper.com/index.html https://faketherapy.wordpress.com/political-therapy/ Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019) https://www.gabrielfontana.com/en/projects/multiform Making Referrals: "The crip analytic of interdependence helps us understand how technoscience can simultaneously be entangled with global networks of domination and also provide opportunities for kinship and connection" Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019) "Crip technoscience struggles for futures in which disability is anticipated and welcomed, and in which all disabled people thrive, regardless of their productivity. By endorsing accessible futures, we refuse to treat access as an issue of technical compliance or rehabilitation, as a simple technological fix, or a checklist. Instead, we define access as collective, messy, experimental, frictional, and generative. Accessible futures require our interdependence" Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019) Comment: * Maybe the notion of 'fake' needs to be explained briefly as it could come across as negative/derogatory. I liked the sentence: "Nor the therapist nor the patient is responsible for any kind of ‘solution’ to the problem. The problem is rather treated as an occasion for language to develop, for speculation to happen and politics to be felt. It’s a therapy for those who do not need, nor want, to be fixed. The role of therapist and patient are always exchangeable." I think the idea of a technical therapy is beautiful especially as an occasion to acknowledge together that we are not the problem... the lack of imagination and around otherwise technologies and the lack of alternative possibilities and user-agency is something that is designed carefully by tech giants. So how do we cope with that without giving in Reference: https://faketherapy.wordpress.com/political-therapy/ Notes from meeting between Ren & Pernilla 11 August 2024 —> self education — look further at that —> maker culture - squatters and design justice - maker spaces from Jamaican Sound Systems, that often gets overlooked, - maker spaces that don’t look like makerspaces — tool rental place —> analogue system for filing and archiving, squatter mentality — no no no no you can do this, in a commercial space wouldn’t be daring —> making, the hands-on making <— —> material and technique and making things —> —> Fake Therapy —> There’s the tools and there’s the confidence to pick up the tools. Coding and hammering and reading and speaking. —> Confidence building —> technology confidence building workshops for disabled and trans* people —> power tools, coding, going into the terminal in your computer, different things for different people, learning and achieving goals —> daring to type something into the terminal —> Solar Punk - working with these ESP’s - pick up signals with a 30 meter range, treasure hunt - would decorate these boxes and servers and code them, something really nice about having this both together —> quick reference to the Audre Lorde, the masters tools - interesting somehow, ownership and tools and literally tools --> Pernilla performance "Dr. Philip" counter propositions to techno-optimist desires for social progress through normative measures of quantification, efficiency and productivity. Ren's Draft Proposals: Draft 1: Technical "Therapy" (Me and H&D love this direction. Ren, should we focus on shaping this as an activity?)(Ren here, yes would love to! I also apprecaited the comment from below about problematizing 'fake' and also I was thinking we could problematize the role of the doctors that are brought up too, maybe through unseating ideas around expertise? Also seems like there is a world we could get into if we wanted to around referrals etc.?). Pernilla: YES! Do you have technological problems? Do you want to code something but don't know where to start? Do you need to use a new tool, but aren't sure how to? Try technical therapy! Indended as a direct fork from Denise Ferreria da Silva & Valentina Desideri's 'Political Therapy' and 'Sensing Salon' projects - 'Technical Therapy' will take on the role of the fake therapist by suggesting "solutions" to techno-optimist desires that thwart normative colonial measures of technological practice like: quantification, efficiency and productivity. A question that someone might bring to us could be 'How do I build up the confidence to start working with the terminal on my computer more rather than the GUI?' or 'How do I use this jackhammer?' Through a series of imagined roles through dedicated sessions we will queer what 'help' means and open up the space to question the series of operations that led us to feel like we don't have the confidence to pick up the tools and play around. The therapy sessions might look like confidence building workshops, coding something together, daring to type something into the terminal or working with bread boards and simple electronics. Throughout this research we will develop roles for ourselves like 'technical expert', ' bibliomancy expert', 'novice fake therapist', 'experienced fake therapist'. By assembling these roles and playing with 'how to do things' and 'what to do' we will invent new practices of questioning technology that move towards unpacking the messy relations of what problems and technical solutions look/feel like in the first place and co-learning skills along the way. Simultaneously we will be working with Questioning 'knowledge production' by looking at the multipul ways that knowledge is passed on, by/to whom it is passed on and what tools can be used. Embracing the joy of being/feeling brave, with the support of peers and the warmth and myth of the extrenal experts. "The crip analytic of interdependence helps us understand how technoscience can simultaneously be entangled with global networks of domination and also provide opportunities for kinship and connection" Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019) "Crip technoscience struggles for futures in which disability is anticipated and welcomed, and in which all disabled people thrive, regardless of their productivity. By endorsing accessible futures, we refuse to treat access as an issue of technical compliance or rehabilitation, as a simple technological fix, or a checklist. Instead, we define access as collective, messy, experimental, frictional, and generative. Accessible futures require our interdependence" Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019) Comment: * Maybe the notion of 'fake' needs to be explained briefly as it could come across as negative/derogatory. I liked the sentence: "Nor the therapist nor the patient is responsible for any kind of ‘solution’ to the problem. The problem is rather treated as an occasion for language to develop, for speculation to happen and politics to be felt. It’s a therapy for those who do not need, nor want, to be fixed. The role of therapist and patient are always exchangeable." I think the idea of a technical therapy is beautiful especially as an occasion to acknowledge together that we are not the problem... the lack of imagination and around otherwise technologies and the lack of alternative possibilities and user-agency is something that is designed carefully by tech giants. So how do we cope with that without giving in Reference: https://faketherapy.wordpress.com/political-therapy/ Draft 2: Do you have technological problems? Do you want to code something but don't know where to start? Do you need to use a new tool, but aren't sure how to? Try technical therapy! Technical "Therapy" problematizes both terms within its title. Technical, meaning those practices that engage with care in socio-technical systems that world the kinds of worlds around us and have to do with the tools that we use that shape our worlds as we shape them back. And therapy, a practice of attuning to and identifying what the 'problem' is in group and individual settings and trying out possible strategies to change the 'problem' into a 'possibility' - without the presence of "real" therapists. This research line, intended as a riff off on Denise Ferreria da Silva & Valentina Desideri's 'Political Therapy' will take up 'Technical Therapy' as a practice that thwarts normative colonial measures of technological practice like: quantification, efficiency and productivity. Instead in 'Technical Therapy' sessions, either group, or individual; we will consider what the problem is; identifying tools we might need to approach problems and generate possibilities for attending to these problems that are in constant flux. Working against notions of expertise, we will define who takes up each of the roles in each of the therapy sessions. Sometimes the 'therapists' will be 'patients' and 'tools' will sometimes be 'therapists' too. By intentionally unseating hierarchies between patients/ therapists/ tools we consider each position as mutable and so that it can become undone in what it comes to normatively represent. Tools will have problems that need solving, therapists will too - patients will become therapists and have answers and methods of approach. A question will be played with in our practice around what it means to fix: when you fix a broken tool: what do you fix? Do you fix the world that rendered that tool necessary for navigating oppressive systems? Or do you restore it to its previous function so it can continue doing its designed for-work? Questions that might prompt someone to sign up for a therapy session could be: 'How do I build up the confidence to start working with the terminal on my computer more rather than the GUI?' or 'How do I use this jackhammer?' or 'How do I refuse techincal (GAFAM) giants in my working processes?'. Through a series of imagined roles through dedicated sessions we will queer what 'help' means and open up the space to question the series of operations that led us to feel like we don't have the confidence to pick up the tools and play around. In this way we will refuse care dynamics that stabalize who needs help and who is the helper. In Technical Therapy we are not offering a service, rather we are opening up a shifting set of relations where the 'problem' is located and what is the 'problem' are open to interpretation as well as what the 'solution' might be remains open for invention too. The therapy sessions might look like: confidence building workshops, coding something together, daring to type something into the terminal or working with bread boards and simple electronics. Throughout this research we will develop roles for ourselves like 'technical expert', ' bibliomancy expert', 'novice fake therapist', 'experienced fake therapist'. By assembling these roles and playing with 'how to do things' and 'what to do' we will invent new practices of questioning technology that move towards unpacking the messy relations of what problems and technical solutions look/feel like in the first place and explore co-learning skills along the way. Questioning 'knowledge production' by looking at the multiple ways that knowledge is passed on, by/to whom it is passed on and what methods can be used. Embracing the joy of being/feeling brave, with the support of peers and the warmth and myth of external experts. _____ Workshop ideas: - Coding something together, daring to type something into the terminal or working with bread boards and simple electronics - Could we give some love and attention to the look of the tools? Like paint the jackhammer with colours, stickers and text. Maybe we can do this to rental tools from the Blauwe Duime so others who rents the tool after its therapy session will get ripples from our vibe. And also testing out the tools brrrrrrap - Group or Individual Therapy - Traveling theater/therapy (an ambulance more than a hospital) --> Varia was making a promotion for a kid, a van - a bakfiets - Pop up in places? we come in, where people normally go, a quick therapy session in a pop up tent - social workshops? - Individual Therapy Pop Up - --> 5 time roaming ambulant therapy pop up where people can drop in and bring us their problems. A few different tools to approach or 'expose' the problems. We have different kinds of 'medicines' like 'coding', 'opening up the technology', 'laying all of the options on the table' and trying things out like 'drilling open the wall'. - Group Therapy Session at H&D - --> 2-3 sessions. In a group session we play with roles - we don't know what's going to come out of it. Character cards: this helps participants to establish their expertise on a 'problem' and also to name their needs when it comes to a group tech therapy session. The roles of characters between who has problems and who has answers will continually change throughout the session. Setting: - What is therapy? (good question, now that you say it I realize so many things are theraputic. Does it need to be framed at this stadge?) Flexible Roles: - therapists - patients - tools Dates: August 2025 – December 2025 By: Ren Loren Britton (Bio), Pernilla Manjula Philip (Bio) + H&D Location: NDSM Amsterdam References: https://www.gabrielfontana.com/en/projects/multiform https://www.natpyper.com/index.html https://faketherapy.wordpress.com/political-therapy/ Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019) https://www.gabrielfontana.com/en/projects/multiform Making Referrals: "The crip analytic of interdependence helps us understand how technoscience can simultaneously be entangled with global networks of domination and also provide opportunities for kinship and connection" Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019) "Crip technoscience struggles for futures in which disability is anticipated and welcomed, and in which all disabled people thrive, regardless of their productivity. By endorsing accessible futures, we refuse to treat access as an issue of technical compliance or rehabilitation, as a simple technological fix, or a checklist. Instead, we define access as collective, messy, experimental, frictional, and generative. Accessible futures require our interdependence" Crip Technoscience Manifesto, Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019) Comment: * Maybe the notion of 'fake' needs to be explained briefly as it could come across as negative/derogatory. I liked the sentence: "Nor the therapist nor the patient is responsible for any kind of ‘solution’ to the problem. The problem is rather treated as an occasion for language to develop, for speculation to happen and politics to be felt. It’s a therapy for those who do not need, nor want, to be fixed. The role of therapist and patient are always exchangeable." I think the idea of a technical therapy is beautiful especially as an occasion to acknowledge together that we are not the problem... the lack of imagination and around otherwise technologies and the lack of alternative possibilities and user-agency is something that is designed carefully by tech giants. So how do we cope with that without giving in Reference: https://faketherapy.wordpress.com/political-therapy/ De Blauwe Duim Collaboration (think this could complement the Technical "Therapy" activity) This would be a collaboration between H&D and the 'De Blauwe Duim' tool borrowing shed. I think this could both be a chance to work with a local context and perhaps also study their system for filing & archiving. Maybe a comparison could be drawn between the archiving practices with H&D. I would propose some hanging out as method here, and also a kind of building/technical/accomplice project. Maybe when someone goes to borrow a tool, they also get a flyer from us that is like - 'do you also need your hardware/software fixed? we can't promise anything but a lot of interest and becoming accomplice in understanding your technical problems'? It could be a way to connect to the community around this tool shed - and also a practice of expanding the kind of tooling up and supports that can be imagined to be supportive of this space? There is something about this idea that realtes to 'flipping of the script' prioritizing those without the means -- which is a practice against big tech who, as the proposal writes alwasy prioritizes those with the means. If a leading principle can only set us back, how can we imagine a post-progress configuration for our techno-social fabric? Together with our large and diverse community of critical makers, H&D sets out to develop constructive counter propositions to techno-optimist desires for social progress through normative measures of quantification, efficiency and productivity. Post progress unpacking what has already been there making accessible what is already there making smaller Tooling Up with What We Already Have Something about this idea around 'post progress' makes me think about all of the work that H&D has already done. I wonder if there are some echoes of research or projects that could be turned into little tools that could be shared? I'm thinking about the worksheet we made for the Crip Time Clock workshop - what if that was forked and used as a worksheet for another purpose? Or with my idea around the Coalition Bouquet project, what if this practice i'm developing around telling stories between coalitions that have gone well between different parties became something H&D hosted over time - as a way to collect these stories and host them in a library. I guess I'm trying to think here of making the resources we already have around more accessible as tools for each other - though how to do this is a bit unformed so far. Other ideas not yet formed: 🍀shifting the archive of who is the teacher, moving towards the plantropocene as a direction of research 🍀World Wide Web rather than Wood Wide Web 🍀how about movement towards education as a practice of freedom? what are the tools of community liberation? 🍀how about a 'flipping of the script' prioritizing those without the means Some notes on the language in the document that Pernilla sent me -- what about moving from the framweorks presente to: 🍀self-sufficiency --> community-sufficiency 🍀ecology --> including and naming as such, more-than-humans as collaborators in our practices 🍀alternative education --> education as the practice of freedom 🍀"do it yourself" --> from DIY to DIWO "do it with others" Thank you Ren, great points! https://meet.jit.si/Plansandapplication2025