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# About
Varia is a Rotterdam based initiative, which started in 2017 from the need to open up their members' practices and organise ad-hoc public or semi-public moments among different configurations; at its core it aims at developing critical understandings of the technologies that surround us. Varia experiments with tools for building [**physical and digital infrastructures in a collective way**](/en/pages/collective-infrastructures.html).
Our ways of being together as a collective-space are mediated through the following documents: our [**Code of Conduct**](/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html) which describes shared values and expected behaviour, a [**collective statement**](/en/pages/collective-statement.html) which contextualizes our situation, and [**membership guidelines**](/en/pages/membership-guidelines.html) where you can read about our membership model.
# Address
Gouwstraat 3
3082 BA
Rotterdam (Charlois)
[info@varia.zone](info@varia.zone)
Have a look at the [accessibility outline](en/pages/accessibility.html) of the space of Varia.
# Mailing List
You can subscribe to our [mailing list](https://we.lurk.org/postorius/lists/varia.we.lurk.org/) to be kept up to date with what's going on.
# Chat
Some of us lurk [#varia](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channel=#varia) on the IRC Freenode network.
# RSS
Another way to stay in touch with Varia is by subscribing to our RSS feeds.