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Varia is... a member-based collective built around the cultural and technological practices of those who constitute it. Varia is... a space of experimentation in group construction that goes beyond the members list.
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Varia is a place and a community established around a shared interest for everyday technologies and their impact on society, gathering together practitioners who attempt to analyse/act on/subvert their usage.
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An organisation of people of many diverse interests brought together by an interest in everyday politics of technology, from pens, paper asks poetry to machine learning and cake.
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All sorts of people; artists and democracy; It looks like a mess.
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A collective space for the development of a dialog around practical media/technology.
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Een collectieve ruimte voor de ontwikkeling van dialoog rondom praktische media/technologie.
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Difficult because Varia is a lot, from events to a (dis) organisationform, to a space to work and share ideas or develop new ones.
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Wel lastig omdat Varia veel is, van evenementen tot een (dis) organisatievorm tot een plek om te werken en ideeën uit te wisselen en op te doen.
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varia is a media club house with a open door policy
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varis is a smoothie of definitions
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varia is bottom up media institution
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club house for media people
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varia is a variable
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is a hybrid phygital (physical and digital) space assembled by a NL based collective interested in critically experimenting with various technologies in their trans-disciplinary practices.
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(I think we can be playful though, even finding variables for eg.: collective = friends, thinkers and makers / technologies = artifacts / tools / movements)
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Varia presentations
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- http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html
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- https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/varia-intro
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- https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/prague-ccld
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Varia activities
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digitale geletterheid
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technofeminisme
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DIY/DIWO cultuur
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fetischiseren we het proces van het zogenaamde "making" niet - "wij geloven dat theorie een pratktijk is, en dat pratktijk een vorm van kennis is"
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Stretching vocabularies
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"geven de voorkeur aan goedkope, ambachteljike oplossingen"
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non-extractive software
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appropriate technology / appropriate software
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non-coercive computing*
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tools ~ voorwerpen, die een een bepaalde mate aan autonomie mogelijk maken voor hun gebruikers / gereedschappen
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*: Helen Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, Romi Ron Morrison, Loren Britton, Joana Moll, Burn, dream and reboot!: speculating backwards for the missing archive on non-coercive computing (2020) - <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3375697>
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