Workshop Series: Building a Mutable Net with Luca Marini

  • Workshop Series | Building a Mutable Net with Luca Marini 

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    ➜ A workshop series on mesh networks, technocommunitarian practices, and digital commons.

    ➜ How can we rethink digital infrastructures as something collectively built, shared, and governed?

    Building a Mutable Net is a hands-on workshop series developed by Luca Marini exploring wireless community networks as alternatives to centralized and privatized systems. Rather than treating networks as neutral technologies, the series approaches them as social and political infrastructures - systems that can be opened, modified, and shaped by the communities that use them.

    Across three sessions, Hacking Devices, Reshaping Nodes, and Building the Commons, participants engage with different layers of a mesh network: from reprogramming devices with free and open-source software, to experimenting with the physical form of routers and antennas, to collectively defining the principles that govern a shared infrastructure.

    The workshops emphasize learning by doing, combining technical experimentation with critical reflection. Along the way, participants contribute to a growing repository of processes, prototypes, and documentation - creating a shared resource that extends beyond the duration of the series.

    More than building a network, the project aims to develop a form of infrastructural literacy: an understanding that technologies are never neutral, and that they can be reimagined as spaces of collaboration, access, and collective agency.

    📍 BlaBlaLab
    🕑 14:00–18:00

    May 9 - Hacking Devices
    May 23 - Reshaping Nodes
    May 30 - Building the Commons

    No prior technical experience required.

    More info here.

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