Free Cultural Spaces
There is a new website that has just been launched called FREE CULTURAL SPACES. It is in the early stages but I hope it will become a place for alternative people to turn to to discuss ideas and look for information. I am lucky enough to be part of the collective that helped get it off the ground. Please take a look around and see what you think.
A bit of the ‘backstory…
The idea for such a FCS Web of Hubs has been nurtured, and now developed, following presentations made at the 2013 ‘3rd Futurological Symposium of Free Cultural Spaces’ held at Ruigoord, Amsterdam. The initial idea was promoted by writer, Alan Dearling and anarchist academic, Stevphen Shukaitis. Alan, with lively input from Symposium organisers and participants debated how this Web of Hubs and the Symposium could be developed.
It was agreed that FCS Web of Hubs was a separate project from the FCS Symposium and needed a separate identity – a life of its own – but that it could be used to support FCS Symposia activities and needs. Jordan Zinovich, Aja Waalwijk, Chiara Baldini, Britta Lillesoe, Petri Salenius, Hans Plomp, Nina Willumsen and a number of other free-thinking, lively FCS-folk contributed their views with passion and vigour. It’s been a lively, energising debate. It hasn’t stopped yet!
Further discussion on the FCS Web of Hubs, and its potential development, took place before, during and after the 4th FCS Symposium at the Boom Festival in Portugal in the summer of 2014. Altogether, a multitude of emails and face-to-face discussions about the FCS Web of Hubs and the needs of the FCS Symposium have taken place from July 2013 until the ’here and now’…
The collective to act as guardians of the FCS Web of Hubs is still organically developing.
You can all join in…we learn together and from each other!
This is a real ‘web’, just like a spider’s – a place of connections – ideas – information – of dreams!
Our aim is to make it a Web of Hubs for alternative and free cultural spaces and people
The website is under the custodianship of a loose collective of individuals based in different countries around the world.
The idea is to provide a loose-knit, non-hierarchical, web-based resource network for a wide range of what we are calling ‘Free Cultural Spaces’ (FCS). They wouldn’t necessarily use that term to describe themselves, but we need a simple, non-threatening term!
As it develops, we hope that the Web of Hubs will contain links for, and between people and places:
A bit of the ‘backstory…
The idea for such a FCS Web of Hubs has been nurtured, and now developed, following presentations made at the 2013 ‘3rd Futurological Symposium of Free Cultural Spaces’ held at Ruigoord, Amsterdam. The initial idea was promoted by writer, Alan Dearling and anarchist academic, Stevphen Shukaitis. Alan, with lively input from Symposium organisers and participants debated how this Web of Hubs and the Symposium could be developed.
It was agreed that FCS Web of Hubs was a separate project from the FCS Symposium and needed a separate identity – a life of its own – but that it could be used to support FCS Symposia activities and needs. Jordan Zinovich, Aja Waalwijk, Chiara Baldini, Britta Lillesoe, Petri Salenius, Hans Plomp, Nina Willumsen and a number of other free-thinking, lively FCS-folk contributed their views with passion and vigour. It’s been a lively, energising debate. It hasn’t stopped yet!
Further discussion on the FCS Web of Hubs, and its potential development, took place before, during and after the 4th FCS Symposium at the Boom Festival in Portugal in the summer of 2014. Altogether, a multitude of emails and face-to-face discussions about the FCS Web of Hubs and the needs of the FCS Symposium have taken place from July 2013 until the ’here and now’…
The collective to act as guardians of the FCS Web of Hubs is still organically developing.
You can all join in…we learn together and from each other!
This is a real ‘web’, just like a spider’s – a place of connections – ideas – information – of dreams!
Our aim is to make it a Web of Hubs for alternative and free cultural spaces and people
The website is under the custodianship of a loose collective of individuals based in different countries around the world.
The idea is to provide a loose-knit, non-hierarchical, web-based resource network for a wide range of what we are calling ‘Free Cultural Spaces’ (FCS). They wouldn’t necessarily use that term to describe themselves, but we need a simple, non-threatening term!
As it develops, we hope that the Web of Hubs will contain links for, and between people and places:
- free cultural art and living spaces,
- free/alternative festivals, party and dance communities (and their creators),
- squats, ex-squats and similar interventions/spaces,
- Travellers/nomadic free spirits,
- intentional communities and co-housing networks,
- permaculture, eco-villages and organic farms,
- eco-activists, anarcho-liberationists and animateurs,
- free and radical educational experimenters,
- free/alternative cultural media and ‘hive-minds’,
- diggers and dreamers, seekers, Utopians and similar networks.
Thanks for looking :) xxx
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