Our anarchive can be defined in many ways. An autonomous place for the Relearn community to dialogue without words. As the traces of our collective thinking-out-loud. A collective warm up exercise familiar to the materialities of the everyday group chat. A clutter of information that is not the documentation of a past activity but of something that evokes the not yet known. An unhierarchical accumulation of images, documents and links to spark the tracks that perhaps will run through Relearn.
+During the face-to-face event, we aim to have in-print forms of the anarchive available at hand. We will use the contents as a collective starting point for our discussions and a way to map out our shared interests.
+How does it work?
The anarchive can be experienced as a group chat: it is open for anyone to join, without registration and accessible through a regular web browser. It is a place to meet other relearners and share thoughts, images, PDFs, texts etc.
However, it is also a place to meet and interact with our friendly logbot. The logbot is a project which was created within the context of Varia as a way to support our modes of organisation and our need for on-the-fly archiving. It is Python program, written and maintained by Varia members, which sits in our group chats when invited and acts as a helpful co-anarchivist. This mode of ad-hoc digital archiving between friends is something we want to bring to the process of documenting our experience at Relearn this year.