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Category Archives: Mazi
Senses in sight
The Brookmill Park Friends are an engaged group of locals, with differing relations towards the park. Most are neighbours and enjoy the close proximity to a great green space with a measure of co-management. In meetings, they have been very … Continue reading
Well conversed
Inura held it’s 26th annual conference this year in Romania, between the city of Bucharest and Transylvanian village, Sibiel. YT joined several other members of MAZI project for the closing day of the ‘city’ conference, before jumping on the coach … Continue reading
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reTransmission
YT has recently rekindled contact with Indymedia activist network members as part of an initiative to build a new hosting platform, an Activist Media Proxy – AMP. Little in the way of social documentary, street protest and public information material … Continue reading
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Waterline workout
The Minesweeper on Deptford Creek seeks refurbishment of the fire damaged hull and an evolution of support infrastructure. The collective aim to build free floating ‘data mines’ to tether in the creek, that collect waterline signals and monitor environmental conditions. … Continue reading
Listenin
Teufelsberg, the Coldwar Field Station in west Berlin sits atop a huge mound of post war rubble, dragged from the ruined city in handcarts by the widows and wounded before city rebuilding commenced. There, we met with artist and engineer … Continue reading
4 for four
Creeknet, is one of four project pilots being operated as part of the MAZI initiative which will bring together components for a neighborhood network toolkit. This will feature a guide for those establishing or improving on open wireless and offline … Continue reading
Knitted out
The quest for suitable, sustainable network equipment is an ongoing and fascinating one. New products with great capabilities, low cost and power, compactness and accessibility, hold much promise. The first to catch my eye during a recent visit to Raylab … Continue reading
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Gardenzilla
YT visited Mobile City Garden early in June to attend EcoDA collaborative workshops held as part of Co-designing resilience project. Hackney wick based Public Works Group hosted the group of locals, garden volunteers and representatives from other projects partners to … Continue reading
Triangulated
The brexit debacle has so far proved to be a substantial distraction from much else going on this week. However, work toward the first of many MAZI reports to satisfy conditions for EU support, has been completed on time. Our … Continue reading
UnMounted
After reading much of the Unmonastery website about their activities in Athens and Matera, I was very excited by the invitation to join them for an Unconvention in Kokkinopolis. Remote it was. The journey from Thessaloniki to Katerini was negotiated … Continue reading
Babbling book
As part of ongoing research into the Deptford Mazi zone, we have begun conversations with Friends of Brookmill Park and hope to hold meet-ups there in coming months. Their slice of green starts as Brookmill Park by Elverson Road and … Continue reading
Energising Interest
The Ashmead junior school in our road at home, has recently had solar panels installed on it’s roof space by SELCE. Cooperative entrepreneurs formed ‘South East London Community Energy’ in 2015 to ensure the mutual benefits of renewable energy and … Continue reading
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Vexed, hashed and ported
Battlemesh 09 was the latest in a series of intensive exchanges organised and attended by the prime of mesh firmware developers, hardware hackers and community activists – An international movement of open wireless network innovation with it’s root in the … Continue reading
Mudlarking On
Before heading off to this years Battlemesh in Porto, Portugal, YT got together with 20 Deptford locals, Inurian activists and Mazi partners for a low tide walk on Deptford Creek. Our guide for the walk was botanist Nick Bertrand of … Continue reading
Meanwhile zone
We have begun hosting Mazi Mondays meet-ups aboard the WWII Minesweeper boat on Deptford Creek where local people can come along to meet with members of the Minesweeper Collective as they collect ideas and prepare resources to extend the Mazi … Continue reading
Swept overboard
Yesterday a few of us from the Wireless Wednesday workshop visited the Minesweeper on Deptford Creek to meet with collective members and take a few photographs in advance of their fundraiser this weekend and Mazi workshops on the boat in … Continue reading
