---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: andrew gryf paterson <[email protected]> andrew --------------------------------------- LOCAL & DECENTRALISED Pixelache Festival in Suvilahti cultural complex, Helsinki, 22nd-24th September 2017 After the 2015 festival that travelled through Living Spaces, and the 2016 festival delving deep into Interfaces for Empathy, Pixelache festival 2017 gathers stories of Local & Decentralised governance. Tapping in to the shift from centralised -capital based economies to de-centralised -peer based resource distribution, we offer the festival as a meeting point for local initiatives working on similar experiences. The festival is titled Local & Decentralised and it happens from 22.9 to 24.9 in Suvilahti, Helsinki. Local and decentralised governance seems to happen when collective design and a tangible group effort come together. In order to decentralise temporally the festival and to materialize the festival theme itself, reflecting perhaps on the current edification of Helsinki, from the 15.9 to 21.9 Suvilahti hosts a model construction site by teams participating in the Recycling Olympic Games, who build the main venue of the festival. These new spatial configurations along with existing DIY area such as the skate-park coagulate together with the festival participants to create fluid places where knowledge can emerge and where it can be applied. Pre-festival and festival activities will happen also at Oranssi premises from 18.9 to 24.9. The role of Oranssi organisation, of Suvilahti permanent tenants and of Pixelache members' contributions as part of the main program, is an important element for the identity of Local & Decentralised. Major developments of decentralization can and do occur: currency, energy, resources, and feelings are being decentralised and distributed. These developments bring about problems that cannot be solved on a purely conceptual level; they need to be embodied and lived through for a shift to yet different models. Thus fear of the unforeseen and unpredictable must also be addressed.

From the festival activities stories emerge that depict how governance functions between civil society, individual initiatives and government, and also how citizens themselves coagulate into structures where governance happens locally, and where we can come to terms with inefficiencies, passivity, interests, time, jargon.

How is it possible to express a multiplicity of will, is the present practice of a State effective enough to convey it? Often the movements towards local and decentralised structures are related to privatisation in economical models, how can diverse collective interest meet on economical terms? Can we be local and decentralised and yet be connected globally, micro-organisms breathing within a vast complex macro system? Local & Decentralised festival does not let you down, it will be your local event to differentiate consensus from silence: talking of ecological issues, promoting visual culture as a shield against pessimism, presenting how democracy benefits from digital media -or not, playing games to prove that we are as connected as we are, offering workshops to learn again the pleasure of learning things together, finding music and contemporary art that make sense more than science, and divulging science as creative as drama. The festival is free entrance and suitable for families. VENUES, PLACES AND SCHEDULE --- Pre-festival activities in Suvilahti and central Helsinki Construction site for Decentralised venue at skate-park (Suvilahti, next to Valvomo building), from 15 to 21.9.2017 Workshops at Oranssi (Suvilahti, Valvomo building), from 18 to 21.9.2017 At MUU Galleria (Lönnrotinkatu 33, central Helsinki), Exhibition 'Pixelache and Koelse 15 years' curated by Antti Ahonen, opening day 21.9.2017 --- Local & Decentralised festival program in Suvilahti At Oranssi building (Valvomo building), from 22.9 to 24.9.2017 Decentralised festival venue at skate park (next to Valvomo, on metro-side): from 22.9 to 24.9.2017 Consult map of Suvilahti area. CONTACT FESTIVAL DIRECTORS Egle Oddo, egle [-ät-] pixelache.ac Mikko Laajola, mikko [-ät-] pixelache.ac Local & Decentralised festival is supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, the City of Helsinki Cultural Office, and Svenska kulturfonden. ------------------------------------------------- <p><strong>LOCAL & DECENTRALISED</strong></p> <p>Pixelache Festival in <a href="http://www.suvilahti.fi/">Suvilahti cultural complex</a>, Helsinki, 22nd-24th September 2017</p> <p>After the 2015 festival that travelled through Living Spaces, and the 2016 festival delving deep into Interfaces for Empathy, Pixelache festival 2017 gathers stories of Local & Decentralised governance. Tapping in to the shift from centralised -capital based economies to de-centralised -peer based resource distribution, we offer the festival as a meeting point for local initiatives working on similar experiences.</p> <p>The festival is titled Local & Decentralised and it happens from 22.9 to 24.9 in Suvilahti, Helsinki. Local and decentralised governance seems to happen when collective design and a tangible group effort come together. In order to decentralise temporally the festival and to materialize the festival theme itself, reflecting perhaps on the current edification of Helsinki, from the 15.9 to 21.9 Suvilahti hosts a model construction site by teams participating in the Recycling Olympic Games, who build the main venue of the festival. These new spatial configurations along with existing DIY area such as the skate-park coagulate together with the festival participants to create fluid places where knowledge can emerge and where it can be applied.</p> <p>Pre-festival and festival activities will happen also at <a href=" http://www.oranssi.net/">Oranssi</a> premises from 18.9 to 24.9. The role of Oranssi organisation, of Suvilahti permanent tenants and of Pixelache members' contributions as part of the main program, is an important element for the identity of Local & Decentralised.</p> <p><br /> Major developments of decentralization can and do occur: currency, energy, resources, and feelings are being decentralised and distributed. These developments bring about problems that cannot be solved on a purely conceptual level; they need to be embodied and lived through for a shift to yet different models. Thus fear of the unforeseen and unpredictable must also be addressed.</p> <p>From the festival activities stories emerge that depict how governance functions between civil society, individual initiatives and government, and also how citizens themselves coagulate into structures where governance happens locally, and where we can come to terms with inefficiencies, passivity, interests, time, jargon.</p> <p>How is it possible to express a multiplicity of will, is the present practice of a State effective enough to convey it? Often the movements towards local and decentralised structures are related to privatisation in economical models, how can diverse collective interest meet on economical terms? Can we be local and decentralised and yet be connected globally, micro-organisms breathing within a vast complex macro system?</p> <p>Local & Decentralised festival does not let you down, it will be your local event to differentiate consensus from silence: talking of ecological issues, promoting visual culture as a shield against pessimism, presenting how democracy benefits from digital media -or not, playing games to prove that we are as connected as we are, offering workshops to learn again the pleasure of learning things together, finding music and contemporary art that make sense more than science, and divulging science as creative as drama.</p> <p>The festival is free entrance and suitable for families.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>VENUES, PLACES AND SCHEDULE</strong></p> <p><strong>--- Pre-festival activities in Suvilahti and central Helsinki</strong></p> <p>Construction site for Decentralised venue at skate-park (Suvilahti, next to Valvomo building), from 15 to 21.9.2017</p> <p>Workshops at <a href="http://oranssi.net">Oranssi</a> (Suvilahti, Valvomo building), from 18 to 21.9.2017</p> <p>At <a href="http://www.muu.fi">MUU Galleria</a> (Lönnrotinkatu 33, central Helsinki), Exhibition 'Pixelache and Koelse 15 years' curated by Antti Ahonen, opening day 21.9.2017</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>--- Local & Decentralised festival program in Suvilahti</strong></p> <p>At Oranssi building (Valvomo building), from 22.9 to 24.9.2017</p> <p>Decentralised festival venue at skate park (next to Valvomo, on metro-side): from 22.9 to 24.9.2017</p> <p>Consult <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4731621847#map=18/ 60.18644/24.97268">map of Suvilahti</a> area. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>CONTACT FESTIVAL DIRECTORS</strong></p> <p>Egle Oddo, egle [-ät-] pixelache.ac</p> <p>Mikko Laajola, mikko [-ät-] pixelache.ac</p> <p> </p> <p>Local & Decentralised festival is supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, the City of Helsinki Cultural Office, and Svenska kulturfonden.</p> -- andrew gryf paterson m.fi +358 50402 3828 [permanent, telegram] m.lv +371 28 689 482 [prepaid when lv] http://agryfp.info [archive.org/details/@agryfp] socialmedia id: agryfp NB: i am gradually leaving gmail over the next months as my main email acc Prepare to use instead: [email protected] -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/