[-empyre-] Week 3 on empyre: Thinking and Tinkering

[helen varley jamieson]

to follow up from the other week, i just received this news from
stefanie wuschitz (her phd title is "Feminist Hackerspaces: a research
on feminist space collectives in open culture):
> I finished my PhD last june:
> ​
>  WUSCHITZ_DISSERTATION_SS_2014.pdf
> <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4GrfK8sb_TQZ1dobGM5c0MyVmc/edit?usp=drive_web>
> ​
> At the moment I'm in Indonesia were I spent the last three months on a
> project on the mothers of hackers. I work in collaboration with the
> citizenlab "lifepatch" and try to learn about the grass-root
> organizations that most female agents in Indonesia are involved in.
> Most of them are based on neighborhood relations and a kind of
> gift-economy, most of them produce, manufacture and hack themselves,
> in order to sell what they make or exchange it, use it themselves or
> support their community. Many artists, designers, makers, hackers are
> drawing from these informal structures directly or indirectly. We will
> have an exhibition opening with the results of this project "the nenek
> project" on march 10th. So we are now in the middle of busy
> preparations to get everything done.
> Here are two websites on which we try to document what's happening in
> the process:
> http://grenzartikel.com/projects/?p=1319
> http://lifepatch.org/Proyek_Nenek

h : )
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helen varley jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com <mailto:helen at creative-catalyst.com>
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net
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