Permacomputing - technologies for resilience and repair

Summary

Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice inspired by permaculture to explore resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology.
In this workshop we’ll explore the core permacomputing concepts slower, more careful computing, care for life, care for the chips.

Science & Technology

27.05.2024 05:30 pm

– 07:30 pm

Workshop

English

Hands On

In a time where computing epitomises industrial waste and exploitation, permacomputing encourages a more sustainable approach, maximising hardware lifespans, minimising energy use and focussing on the use of already available computational resources.

In this workshop through discussion and exercises, we’ll consider the key permacomputing concepts:

Care for life
Care for the chips
Keep it small
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Keep it flexible
Build on solid ground
Amplify awareness
Expose everything
Respond to changes
Everything has a place.

We’ll look at practical ways we can introduce the concepts of perma-computing into our everyday life and practice, with components and projects from the perma-computing community.

We’ll also use reclaimed hardware to explore ways we can build networks that help us renegotiate our relationship between technology and organic networks for inter-species connection and care.

https://permacomputing.net/

Collective

Artist