after ecotopia, some ideas, questions and whats on

national | miscellaneous | news report

Wednesday September 11, 2002 18:31

by dunk - oraiste

duncancrowley at hotmail dot com

after ecotopia - whats on - growing network - pics for lecture - other stuff - the revolution is on, here and now

after ecotopia
- whats on
- growing network
- pics for lecture
- other stuff
- the revolution is on, here and now

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whats on

leinster sustainable forums, first Saturday of every month,

event 1 - Saturday the 14th of september first meeting, green walk and talk, art event on grafton street

- 12.00 – meeting
upstairs, the dublin food co-op, pearse street resource centre, pearse street, dublin - theme “communication”

- 2.00-5.00 green walk and talk,
through a few of dublins parks and green spaces from pearse street to grafton street.

- 5.00. art event,
top of grafton street, purpose of which is to

-raise awareness about sustainable issues, including the following weeks “reclaim the streets” free city party for european far free day
-let people know about ecotopia and what went on
-inform people of upcoming sustainable events
-have fun experimenting with communication systems.

- Evening- pints and chat in conways pub, parnell street, dublin 1

Event 2 – Friday the 20th of September 2002 – lahinch beach. County clare

- “playing with phi” , night-time, an art event at 00.00.01, the first second of Saturday morning
- full moon party – on the beach
- “playing with phi” , day-time, Saturday the 21st of september, an art event with lectures and a film. On the beach

Event 3 – sunday the 22th of September 2002 – european car free day
- critical mass, cycling protest around the city, time and place to be announced
- FREE CITY PARTY- “reclaim the streets” 2.30 top of grafton street. Ongoing through out evening
- 5.00 – “public forum about the nature of the city and the planet” with city architects, planners and the public

Event 4 – Wednesday the 25th of September 2002 – the FUSPEY lecture – 7.00
- a public lecture on the new emerging architectural movement
- >FUSPEY-fun-sustainable-peaceful-existence
- by duncan crowley. bolton street (dublin institute of technology)
- followed by pints in conways

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growing network

networks are the systems which allow us to communicate. Talk, post, Telephone, internet and email, mobile phone, etc
I am trying to find out what networks have been created after ecotopia. There was talk of both real and virtual systems being set up and im not sure what has been done and what are people developing at the moment. I definitely feel that there is a need for a very strong network for us to communicate, both in physical meetings and also in the virtual world; websites, online forums, chat zones etc.

real
Leinster has agreed on a time and place every month where people interested in sustainable, social, political, economical systems can meet up. What have the other provinces agreed on? We feel its easier for people “outside” to appraoch and get involved this way

Virtual
As far as I can tell there are 3 main websites; www.sustainable.ie , www.ecotopia2002.org , www.indymedia.ie

www.sustainable.ie sends out a monthly newsletter via email, informing people of events coming up, the website has a resources section with only a few articles written. Articles are sent in to the site and they choose to put them up if they are good enough. There is no open communication area for online forum on the site

www.ecotopia2002.org , is the website which was set up before ectopia, it informed people on how to get to ecotopia and what was going to go on. It also had a brief history etc. nothing further has gone onto this site. I feel there should be more things there;

- archive, a record of all events that went on, articles from newspapers, photos and film archive. Some written articels from ecotpians etc
- list of all campaigns and links to their sites
- list of all workshops with an open area for further discussion
- open forum, an open area for the free and open discussion about all things

I feel an organized area like this is very much needed for people to find out whats on, whats going on and to communicate when ever they feel like it. Anyone can access it, ideas flow, anyone can get involved. That’s the idea

www.indymedia.ie is the irish independent media centre. It is part of the international independent media centre, http://www.indymedia.org which was set up to archive all info about protest, an open system, a place to post up news as it happens. It has become very prominent since seattle in 1999. The images of police brutality after the last “recalaim the streets” came nearly all from indymedia journalists.

I am involved with developing communication systems. Ones that have a virtual interface but also work on the real face to face meetings and events of humans coming together to do things. I am presently developing an art based system which will work on the global level, both via website and in events in art galleries worldwide running at the same time, if any one is interested in this check out, www.mmmarcel.org

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need pics

I am giving a lecture soon and need photos and film bits from ecotopia. Can people email me and give me weblinks to where I can find some, or else post some on my website, www.oraiste.com

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other stuff

I am looking for telephone numbers for annette and paul, who gave the “theatre of the oppressed” workshop at ecotopia
I want to meet up with people who are advertising “RTS” via stickers and posters to discuss communication systems
I would like to hear from people who are interested in developing street theatre in dublin, esp pre next sat

Can someone confirm for me if Crit mass is happening on sun 22, what time?

“postcard of planet earth from space, a gift to bertie ahern” on or around RTS, us as a concerned group of environmentalists etc giving him a pic of his home in the hope that he listens to us more
an event to further raise publis awareness

when are the next W.T.O meetings happening and where

global network community
using art to inform
using art to challenge

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the revolution is on, here and now

the world view of humans is changing from the old mechanistic to the new systems, dynamic, network one

our perception of ourselves, our home and how we deal with each other is profoundly changing

1960`s we developed the image of planet earth from space, we saw our home. We are dealing with this

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that’s it.

I know its long, sorry. I am trying to get this stuff sorted. Any response is welcome
Thanks to those interested and interesting

Slán

dunk