Vulca Seminar 2020

Hacktivism is built on an ecosystem of people, places, and ideas.

From Hackerspaces to Makerspaces; From Open Workshop toBioLab or Fablabs, the M.Hackers movement tend to develop local communities to collaborate either on place or remotely on very transdisciplinary projects. But what are the Ingredients for Hacktivism? What’s next for Hacktivism?

We asked several experts to weigh in on the future of Hacktivism and what it means for their field.
- For Society
- For Business
- For Art
- For Governments
- For Journalist
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1/4 - Isabelle Radtke : Hackers for nature’s rights
Let’s get together to review existing actions aiming at bending public policies to include nature’s right. Then, we will talk about biohacking in a political sense and how to ask for more than the abolition of ecocide: hack the system to recognize non human (plants, animals, earth...) as a rightful member of society. (I.e.acces to the economic world is already possible Since we can create virtual wallets and smart contracts for a care dog, a forest ...) let’s take this idea a bit further: We’ve known how to MAKE stuff together for many moons now (agriculture, textile, rare earth in TIC ....) but NOW: How do we work with each other ? How do we prioritize together ? How do we respect each other’s rights? What are those rights? ...

2/4 - Marko Kažić: Free Education - We hack the future of Education
Kikinda is a city of 38 000 inhabitants in northern Serbia where Marko and his community are evolving and remodeling education to fit the needs of an increasingly digital, decentralized society, and makes parallels with the maker/hacker movement to deduce the effect to mobility, knowledge and freedom in society as a result of free education.