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Hoy Meet-ups
This coming Monday 23rd January we will again meet up with Creeknet friends to continue some great conversations and push on with DIY network research. Our host for the last few Mazi Mondays has been the Hoy Kitchen on Creek … Continue reading
Brackish and Brawn
Over a year ago, YT attended Transmediale media arts festival in Berlin to meet up with old friends living in the city and introduce them to members of the Mazi project attending for the first time. One of the first … Continue reading
Sweeping for power
Since first writing this report the Minesweeper has been destroyed by a terrible fire on 5th Jan 11pm. Despite quick response from the London Fire Service and attendance of a dozen fire engines, it was all over by 5am – … Continue reading
Ripped and Yarned
It’s the end of 2016, an extraordinary year that has surprised us all for it’s contrasts and contradictions, horror and hubris. Any anticipation of sudden enlightenment or even delayed reaction to the scale of discord seems far fetched, yet somehow … Continue reading
Crossed Bridges
Residents in Deptford and Greenwich, the ‘Friends of Deptford Creek,’ have formed an alliance to help co-ordinate living and working amongst the clustered houseboats and workplaces, to share access to the land resources and promote mooring rights. Living on the … Continue reading
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
Concurrency
Late summer has stretched out into October this year and to some extent the anticipation of wintry times ahead, is drawing our attention on from the confusion of recent electoral fiascos. Our best effort as individuals or in groups can … Continue reading
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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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Apocryphal ecstatic
This Thursday 7th July is the first pubic screening of ‘Chemi Bebia‘ (1929) with Funki Porcini soundtrack and launch event for his new LP and boxset ‘Conservative Apocalypse‘. Its at the BFI on London SouthBank where James will also show … 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
