Eclectic Electric Collective: The El Martillo Project (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, art, climate, climate crisis, protest
“In 2009 an inconspicuous looking suitcase was sent from Berlin to Mexico City containing a 39-foot tall inflatable silver hammer. Thus began El Martillo’s odyssey to protest the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancún. El Martillo’s short, but glorious life, climaxed when protesters from Marea Creciente (Rising Tide) stormed the conference complex fences, gigantic hammer above their heads. In full view of the press Mexican police tore the inflatable to pieces. Within an hour global the media corporations declared El Martillo a symbol of the climate changes protests as it’s image traveled across the world.
The El Martillo Project documents the whole process from its conception and construction to the media flurry it sparked off. Included are numerous full color images and documentation of the project; texts and analysis by David Graeber, Alex Dunst, and Cristian Guerrero; an interview with John Jordan from the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination; and a fold out technical manual and plan for creating giant inflatable hammers.
Initially inspired by the quote “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it,” The El Martillo Project aims to inspire creative action and joyful disobedience.”
Publisher Minor Compositions, an imprint of Autonomedia, 2012
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported License
ISBN 9781570272509
64 pages
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Comment (0)Christian Nold, Rob van Kranenburg: Situated Technologies Pamphlet 8: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · climate crisis, internet, internet of things, oil, protocol, technology, ubiquitous computing
The authors articulate the foundations of a future manifesto for an Internet of Things in the public interest. Nold and Kranenburg propose tangible design interventions that challenge an internet dominated by commercial tools and systems, emphasizing that people from all walks of life have to be at the table when we talk about alternate possibilities for ubiquitous computing. Through horizontally scaling grass roots efforts along with establishing social standards for governments and companies to allow cooperation, Nold and Kranenberg argue for transforming the Internet of Things into an Internet of People.
Published by The Architectural League of New York, Spring 2011
ISBN 9780980099478
68 pages
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
Make IT Green: Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change (2010)
Filed under report | Tags: · apple, climate crisis, cloud computing, ecology, facebook, google, microsoft, technology
Make IT Green shows how the launch of quintessential cloud computing devices like the Apple iPad, which offer users access to the “cloud” of online services like social networks and video streaming, can contribute to a much larger carbon footprint of the Information Technology (IT) sector than previously estimated.
To be clear: We are not picking on Apple. We are not dissing the iPad. But maybe someone can come up with an app that calculates the carbon footprint of using different web sites based on their location and energy deals. Apple is the master of promotion, and while we marvel at the sleek unpolluted design of the iPad, we need to think about where this is all leading and how like all good surfers we can make sure our environment stays clean and green.
Publisher Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, 30 March 2010
12 pages
PDF (updated on 2014-9-16)
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