Semillas en red (Seed network), 2004
- Fernando García Dory et Al.
Collaborative project on social auto-organisation and Internet project.
Installation and concept: FGD
Images: Red Semillas
Semillas en Red was devised as a work in progress, involving collaboration between hackers, small farmers and artists, to maintain the free exchange of seeds in danger of extinction. Faced with a growing monopolisation of our resources and knowledge, these groups make use of new communication technology in order to cultivate both biodiversity and infodiversity. The group as a whole proposes new methods of auto-organisation connecting people, planting and screens. In this way, action is taken at the same time and under the same conditions both in the countryside (Seed Network) and on our computer terminals (http://www.ourproject.org/).
Software: Eric Van Buggenhaut, Anouk Deville, David Gutiérrez, Eva Coria
Seeds and materials: Cristina Ortega, Red de Semillas de la Plataforma Rural
Collaborator: ourproject.org (Vicente Ruiz , Aitor Méndez)
Activities:
Date: 5th February
Debate: Patents on Life, patents on software: towards a model of biolinux.
Time: 11:00
Location: MediaLabMadrid.
During the process of reflection and setting up of Semillas en Red, a number of common issues arose that provide bridges to groups that might otherwise seem to be far removed from each other, such as sindominio.net, Ecologistas en Acción, farmers, etc. It is also the first collaboration that has arisen out of the concept of Ecohacking. The site offers an opportunity to exchange opinions, ideas, strategies and to define the ideas and their ongoing development.
Date: 5th February
Workshop: Use and administration of the database and website created by "Semillas en red".
Time: 16:30
Location: MediaLabMadrid.
This workshop is aimed at representatives from the nodes of the Seed Network "Resembrando e Intercambiando (Resowing and Exchanging)", for whose agrobiodiversity banks a new communication and management tool is being implemented. Eric Van Buggenhaut and Anouk Deville, who designed the programmes, will explain their applications to representatives from networks in Euskadi, Andalusia, Catalunya, Castilla, etc.