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19 Nov 2008 The Field Station Energy Café UK, Essex
The Field Station Energy Café is a project by Pilot Publishing (Amy Plant and Ella Gibbs) which will reinvigorate Gunpowder Park with a feeling of the original ‘commons’ where land was used as a resource for all. The construction of Energy Café will turn normal planning procedures on its head. The process will be developed organically, out of necessity, through people’s involvement.
	Art + Activism / Public Projects

18 Nov 2008 Alphabet City's: FUEL
The Alphabet City series challenges us to rethink ideas central to our lives. In each volume writers and artists address single theme from many perspectives, revealing its processes and possibilities. This issue, FUEL, examines the future of energy by asking about the politics, science, and history that have shaped the impending crisis of supply while describing possible futures. How will world work after coal and oil? Will the changes be slow or sudden? How might we steer toward a future without massive disruption to our economic life? FUEL addresses these and other questions about the necessary radical reinvention of energy. Alphabet City is co-published with The MIT Press and appears each October accompanied by an arts and ideas festival in Toronto.
	Books / Events / Sustainability / Symposium / Conference

16 Nov 2008 Freedocumentaries.org Anywhere
"A site where anyone with an internet connection can watch a movie to educate themselves or simply explore another perspective whenever they please. These movies aren't just for education but are also for entertainment. As a secondary objective freedocumentaires.org allows independent filmmakers to have their message heard by viewers that they may not normally reach."
Stijn	Free / Virtual Soil

14 Nov 2008 Ideas for the urban garden US, California
"An inventory of urban and suburban sustainable ideas and the people behind them. Disobeying the suburban aesthetic laws for common sense, locavorism, human footprint reduction. Escaping consumerism by saving seeds, making your own honey, compost, houses etc...." Besides this blog, Susan Husky has also published Eco Heroes, a collection of stories and images from East Bay backyard activism.
Stijn	Blogs / DIY / Homebrew / Sustainability

14 Nov 2008 Counter Coca-Cola Movements Various
India Resource Center works to support movements against corporate globalization in India. They provide timely information on transnational corporations to Indian movements and educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India. Oslo (November 11, 2008): Students at the University of Oslo have voted overwhelmingly to restrict the dominant presence of Coca-Cola products on campus, and introduce ethical alternatives to Coca-Cola on campus.
AmyF	Social Practice / Sustainability

12 Nov 2008 The White House Organic Farm Project Various
The most ingenious project i have seen in ages. Completely inspiring!! Go go go! TheWhoFarm is a non-partisan, petition-based initiative to respectfully request that our 44th President oversee the planting of an organic farm on the grounds of The White House, our nation’s First Home, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC.
AmyF	DIY / Homebrew / Sustainability

11 Nov 2008 Urban Utopias U.S. Boston
The MIT Visual Arts Program hosts a cross-disciplinary lecture series that includes speakers from art, architecture, urbanism and technology from around the world. These speakers will start a discourse to imagine tomorrow's urban living conditions.
AmyF	Events / Urban/City

04 Nov 2008 Extrastatecraft Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism The Netherlands
A new project of the Jan Van Eyck Design department, initiated by Keller Easterling, researches underexplored territory in the world’s infrastructural and organizational strata. The work focuses on shared protocols, managerial subroutines and financial instruments as they produce and program physical space around the world. Perhaps because these organizations operate in the background, in an active and relational rather than nominative register, their political outcomes are often at once pervasive and mysterious. Candidates interested in this project can apply with a research proposal. Application details
Stijn	Calls

04 Nov 2008 Onthaasting About Spare Time and Slower Worlds U.S. Washington
'Onthaasting' is a mental diversion through the use of recreation as an "escape" from the perceived unpleasant aspects of daily life. It takes place on the outskirts of contemporary life: on mountaintops, in wide-open plains, in churches, in landscapes, in gardens ... but most of all in the mind. The exhibition presents Belgian contemporary video artists within this conceptual framework. Curated by Niels Van Tomme and Jan Van Woensel.
Stijn	Artists / Exhibitions

04 Nov 2008 Code Magazine Belgium, Brussels
Code magazine intends to fill the gap by offering a platform to the young contemporary creation and its actors. Code is a free magazine published by a collective of curators. It aims at introducing new forms of expression as well as to raise the interest of the public for an exciting and innovating culture. Code is also a curatorial project. In order to offer artists the best conditions in which to present their work, Code regularly curates collective shows.
Stijn	Exhibitions / Free / Magazines


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Projects


nowHere nowHere, a space where a spot becomes a place. 15 march - 25 may, 2008 nowHere, is a cabinet which invokes a dialogue on re-appropriation of the private and public domain. Through personal tags and geographies (books, movies, music, websites, drawings, mappings, photocopies, art works, ... ) it reads as a 'certain' historical relation between human, space and technology. bolwerK considers the constructed in-between space of architect C.Kieckens, within the art space, Z33, not as a sub-art space with a curatorial reading; a cabinet as 'museum' but as a space with a personal narrative and a social meaning embedded in a neighborhood. The active use of the space for living, eating, working, sleeping implies that the cabinet is more a 'room of collection', in a live, real-time situation. During PLACE@SPACE Marthe Van Dessel will post live from Z33, as a guest contributor on Free Soil, to connect, publish and share her discourse with the virtual open public resources of the net. The the conceptualization of the space as 'ongoing', work-in-progress externalizes the precarity of information, issues of copyright, authorship, knowledge production and hierarchical information networks.
Marthe

Link of the Week:
Interview with Fritz Haeg by Nato Thompson