[P2P-F] Fwd: [lfowhattheflok] Quelques liens en vrac, Transformaking

[Michel Bauwens]

very important initiative on sustainable manufacturing


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From: jnm <jnm at rom.fr>
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:40 AM
Subject: Re: [lfowhattheflok] Quelques liens en vrac, Transformaking
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Merci Jérôme.


Transformaking (festival)
> http://transformaking.org/
>

J'en profite pour faire un peu de retape personelle avec le texte de mon
intervention à Transformaking. Il vous manque les photos pour tout
comprendre, elles sont attachées (en qualité pourrie pour alléger le
courriel, mais j'ai mieux si besoin). Le symposium était très sympa, bonnes
rencontres avec des représentants de hackerspaces et fablabs dans le monde,
et particulièrement en Asie. Venzha et Argha de HONF/transformaking seront
à Marseille à la fin du mois et viendront à la Friche et divers lieux pour
présenter le symposium.

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Good afternoon,
Thank you for your presence here, and thanks to the organisers of this
important moment.

I am Jean Noël Montagné, I am the founder of a hackerspace in Nice, france,
called Nicelab, " Open Laboratory of Nice". I started collaborations with
HONF foundation Indonesia twelve years ago. I was very happy last year,
when HONF team invited me for brainstorming on the future of making and DIY
spirit, when Gustav Hariman, from Bandung hackerspace,  invented the word
Transformaking/Transformakers.
For me, this word are an opportunity to impulse a political perspective in
the Makers scene in rich countries.

*Makers* (picture one, objects from fablab)

In France, most of the Makers are hobbyists, technolovers, geeks. They
create for fun, for local glory and some, for business. But few of them are
makers for social or political goals. Most of the objects created in
fablabs and makerspaces in the last years are useless regarding the urgent
problems of the planet.  Because the planet is on fire. Climate crisis.
Energy crisis. Demography crisis. Water crisis. Metals crisis. Financial
cris.  Education crisis, even crisis of mental health because of the abuse
of digital communication. ;-)

But stop ! it's enough ! Come back to transformaking, No-one wants to ear
this crude reality !

*No lessons from the past* (picture two : garbage in nature)

And that's the problem: historians studying the extinction of old
civilisations in the last millinaries have discovered that leaders and
populations perfectly knew the serious problems of their time but they have
ignored the scientific advices and all indicators turning to red, until the
end. We are doing exactly the same and we don't have a lot of time to act.
We must transform all sectors of the society before  the conjunction of
some important crisis, and transformakers will help us to do it.


*Interdependency* (picture 3 : boat and trucks)


In the global village, industry is totaly dependant of flux, networks of
raw materials, energy, goods, tools, components, distribution and
transportation. Any failure on one spot can disturb or stop all the chain,
from extraction of raw materials to distribution of goods. This
interdependency is an enormous fragility in the context of the coming
crisis, and transformakers can help us to break it.


* Resilient society* ( picture 4= reversed world map)

We have all noticed that we can't really count on our political systems to
find efficient solutions, we should count on ourselves. We, citizens, can
buid resilient communities, based on small structures, driven by direct
democracy, and based on big citizenship networking.  We have the digital
tools and the network to do it.
Transformakers have a key role in this transition from globalisation to
resilience

Let's have a deeper look in this crisis instead of being blind to reality.
If we are here in Jogyakarta, it's because we have understood what is
coming, and how Transformaking can help us.

The first crisis to observe with the glasses of transformaking is climate
crisis.
*
**Climate crisis *( picture 5 :UN meeting Paris announce)

 -In december in France, during the UN conference about climate change,
COP21, a hundred presidents and 25 000 leaders and technocrates will
brainstorm on how to impose radical solutions to nations, or not, for
limiting the rise of the global temperature to 2 degrees more.
For me, it's an announced fail.

A fail because the goals of the meeting started in a wrong direction.
Accepting 2 degrees more, in average, on the planet, is accepting violent
transformations of the climate:   hurricanes, floods, dryness, wildfires,
pollination problems, soil erosion, insect, animals and vegetal invasions,
viruses emergence, and so on, that will create a giant loose of
biodiversity, massive extinction of species in earth and ocean during
years. Look at what's happening with just a half degree more in the last
fourty years, we see important effects on the poles, on the climatology, on
water storage, on agriculture, on the acidity of ocean.

Picture 6 (refugees panel in US/Mexico border)



So 2 degrees more will create huge environemental and social disorders,
unstability everywhere, wars, starvations.  Hundred millions of refugees
could have to move, but move where ?. The management of this mass of
refugees can completely dismantle the geopolitic equilibrium and will
deeply affect all the planet. A new era of chaos, but a opportunity for
changing radically the system in good directions.

This meeting will be a fail, because the richest countries don't want to
change their way of life in the direction of degrowth, wich is the only
realist solution. And because developing countries with a big growth, like
in Asia, South America or Africa for example, don't want to stop this mad
race to personal enrichment. Look. This is a picture taken here  in a
street of Jogjakarta

Picture 7 (  Motorcycling in Jogja )


: Can you imagine what can happen, in terms of energy, in terms of
circulation, in terms of  urbanity, in terms of pollution, in terms of
fluidity of a city and merchandise transport if all this people earn enough
money to buy a car for rainy days ?

How transformakers can help in the context of climate crisis ?

By helping us to change the scale from globalization to small resilient
networked communities. By helping us to rebuild real democracy. By helping
us redefine our urbanisation, our usage of the lands. By helping us to
rebuild our social organisation around knowledge networks.


*Energy crisis* ( picture 8: old print of solar energy system 19th century)

Second crisis affecting the world is energy crisis: all our societies and
economies are totally dependent on oil: the actual madness of the low
prices must not mask that conventional Oil had a production peak few years
ago. We live now in the illusion of infinite Unconventional oil and shale
gas, but this new prosperity will have a end. And it will not be possible
to drill and destroy all our lands and groundwater everywhere and continue
to produce greenhouse gas. The planet has a limited quantity of fossil
energy in the ground, and we are reaching the limits in one or two
generations, our children.

Coal will stay a durable low cost solution for many countries, increasing
the climate chaos. The actual very low cost of oil is a unique opportunity
to invest in renewable energies, but few people, few nations have
understood that. ( New Zealand, Denmark, Bhoutan, etc)

We imagine how Transformakers can help in the context of energy crisis and
interdependency: in the same direction of autonomy and solidarity. Changing
the scale again. We must harvest clean energy, renewable energy everywhere,
and share it. Hackers and Transformakers have a lot of solutions.


*Ressources crisis* (picture 9 : children extracting minerals, children
extracting their brain on a tablet)


The third big crisis, coming at the same time, is a the crisis of
ressources: pure water is missing everywhere because of very bad
managements, but the most important resource crisis will come with metals:
here is the previsional calendar about the peak of production of metals.
Source from one famous elit engineer shcool in  france Ecole Centrale:

Picture 10, crisis of metals

Peak of metals= huge price increase
terbium, Hafnium, Antimony ==> crisis 2020/2025  (batteries)
Palladium, Gold , Indium, Zinc ==> crisis 2023/2027 ( computers,
electronics)
Stain, Silver, Nickel ==> crisis 2028/2033 ( food industry, chemistry,
metallurgy)
Lead ==> crisis 2030/2035 ( batteries)
Copper, tantalum ==> crisis 2035/2040 ( electricity, electronics)
uranium, platinium ==> crisis 2060 ( nuclear energy, aerospace, chemistry)
iron ==> crisis 2080


Transformakers must help us to redefine our materials strategies our
industrial strategies. How to go from globalization of the production of
very bad quality goods, to small autonomous production of very solid tools
and productions ? How to organise a clever recycling of all raw materials ?
how to change the scale in the direction of self-democratic management,
citizen industry, is again the problem to solve. And transformakers have a
lot of solutions.

*Economy crisis* ( picture 11 : surfer on garbage )

No lessons have been taken from the 2008 crash. Fragility of the economy
grows with technological improvments in high frequency trading. 95% of
daily market transactions does not involve goods, but only speculation.
 The debts of many countries are deeper every day, and those debts places
the political teams under the control of big banks, big monetary regulators
driven by banks, and under the control of big companies wich doesnt care
about common goods. This provoke also a crisis of democracy, of citizenship,

Hackers and transformakers have always worked on the evolution of money.
Digital encrypted currencies, local moneys, networks of exchange, P2P
moneys are research we should more focus on very quickly, because solutions
exist to be less dependant on banks and markets.



*Transformaking* ( picture 12: picture of the earth)

Come back to transformaking, and let's have a look to good, positive news,
coming from everywhere in the  world.

We discover today that good social, environemental and financial practices
have always existed. Transformaking is the common behaviour in many
communities in the world, especially in rural areas: do it yourself,
DIWithOthers, Do It Together: people invent tools and technologies adapted
to their context, to their pragmatic needs, using few ressources,  using
local resources, people repair, they recycle, they hack objects, they
transmit the knowledge to young generations.

In social organisation, all over the world, small communities use
solidarity structures, monetary arrangements, like barter systems that can
be considered as local money, in a pure peer to peer exchange. The
organisation of traditional communities are big lessons for us and this
model just need digital tools to be adapted to small communities in modern
world.

*
**Sharing knowledge = open sourcing* ( Picture 13 : badge open source
hardware)

Transformaking has had also an official arrival in our society, 30 years
ago, when  hackers started  to change the world with the first open source
software licences, wich was one of the most powerfull polititcal act of the
XXth century. Artists have followed the movement 20 years ago with open
source documents and artworks licences, and some makers have taken another
important step, ten years ago,  with Open Source Hardware licences. This is
transformaking: changing the society by offering alternatives containing
the values of solidarity and knowledge.

Open source technologies, from their concept to production or distribution,
open the possibility of a total citizen control on technology. It's now
possible to envision human-scale industry, citizen industry, decentralized
industry, like our ancestors did before industrial revolution. The
ecosystem of transformaking is self-organised around knowledge networks.
Any technological process can be created or imporved by transfomakers,
because networks of knowledge, network of citizen research, and network of
materials and components exists. In the recent years, transformakers have
started to design and build very complicated open source machines related
to many sectors of industry, and citizen research attacks now topics like
high tech medecine, nuclear physics, nanotechnologies or genetics.

  Patents are living their last twenty years, even in some very protected
niche industries, like for example medical equipements: look at this slides:

Picture 14  ( websites about open source medecine)


One could argue that hackers, transformekrs are not regulated by
authorities, certifications, ethics comitees ? and could launch dangerous
projects for the society ? No.
Because we are network of citizens, we are self organized and the debate is
always open in open source technologies. Creation and correction of code
follow real democratic rules.

How to push more transformaking in society ? ( Picture 15 solar motorbike)

-first by protecting internet and the net neutrality. Networking tools are
essential for democracy and sharing of the knowledge. Big companies like
Facebook and GAFAM are silently killing internet by replacing all software
on the client side, by services driven by their data-suckers servers.

by supporting hackers and transformakers projects through crowdfundings

by opening new medialabs, hackerspaces, makerspaces, and open laboratories,
and specialized of them ( biology, health, agriculture, etc)

by opening places in cities to dismantle, repair, recycle objects, parts,
etc

by choosing to use open source software and open source hardware when
available

by funding P2P and common goods initiatives on all sectors of society ==>
P2P foundation

-by installing education programms about hacking, about transformaking,


*Post capitalist era* (Picture 16 DIY biology analysis kits)


Transition from globalisation to new resilient small scale networked
societies is necessary and must start now.  Transformakers are the first
explorers of a post capitalist era. But they don't move alone. Many new
citizen organisations,  new style political movements are following the
movement, but most of them ignore what transformakers are doing.

Transformakers have started to transform the society through new behaviours
based on local resources, local solidarities, self-management and direct
democracy, and based on global communication and global exchange of
knowledge.

Instead of loosing energy to impulse this vision into standard political
systems,  it look more efficient to start building initiatives around us,
responding to our values, co-existing with the actual system, and if our
alternatives are good, if our models takes sense into the society, they
will naturally replace the old system, without war, without revolutions.

And if it doesnt work, buy this book !  (Picture 17 Book on satellites DIY)

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