http://padma.okno.bedaily2012-02-091.0http://padma.okno.be/aboutmonthly1.0http://padma.okno.be/faqmonthly1.0http://padma.okno.be/termsmonthly1.0http://padma.okno.be/licensemonthly1.0http://padma.okno.be/Vt8legia/info2011-11-30weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - comb observationhttp://padma.okno.be/Vt8legia/poster.75.jpgYes241http://padma.okno.be/Vtkajyay/info2011-12-03weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - comb observationhttp://padma.okno.be/Vtkajyay/poster.75.jpgThe bees of the observation beehive in the okno rooftop garden, filmed through the hive window. It is the month of june, high season for the bees, and this young colony (they swarmed on may 4th) are in top condition, building, brooding and storing honey for the wintermonths.Yes101http://padma.okno.be/Vgdn6xnc/info2011-11-30weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - comb observationhttp://padma.okno.be/Vgdn6xnc/poster.75.jpgYes91http://padma.okno.be/Vsrw6ym2/info2011-11-30weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - bees desaturatehttp://padma.okno.be/Vsrw6ym2/poster.75.jpgYes34http://padma.okno.be/Vu54nvih/info2011-11-29weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - bees desaturatehttp://padma.okno.be/Vu54nvih/poster.75.jpgYes62http://padma.okno.be/Vtp2vee3/info2011-11-29weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - bees inverthttp://padma.okno.be/Vtp2vee3/poster.75.jpgYes57http://padma.okno.be/Vu1dih6x/info2011-11-29weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - bees inverthttp://padma.okno.be/Vu1dih6x/poster.75.jpgYes65http://padma.okno.be/Vtoyv2m1/info2011-11-29weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - comb constructionhttp://padma.okno.be/Vtoyv2m1/poster.75.jpgYes54http://padma.okno.be/Vsnjukom/info2011-11-29weekly1.0Open Greens : Oniscus asellus - kelderpissebedhttp://padma.okno.be/Vsnjukom/poster.75.jpgYes11http://padma.okno.be/Vsn3krql/info2011-12-03weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - fraction comb buildinghttp://padma.okno.be/Vsn3krql/poster.75.jpgApis Mellifera carnica. A swarm was put into the hive on may 4th. They hung in a cluster for some hours, and than started builing their new nest in a rapid way. Every action is filmed with 2 infrared webcamera's that are mounted into the beehive. All images are streamed in real time over the internet. The set up is part of okno's bee monitoring program.Yes22http://padma.okno.be/Vejhkttz/info2011-11-29weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive - bees linehttp://padma.okno.be/Vejhkttz/poster.75.jpgYes21http://padma.okno.be/Vhmidsn7/info2011-11-25weekly1.0TIK Windflower Kithttp://padma.okno.be/Vhmidsn7/poster.75.jpgYes297http://padma.okno.be/Vsn9gylh/info2011-11-25weekly1.0TIK Windflower Kithttp://padma.okno.be/Vsn9gylh/poster.75.jpgYes-1http://padma.okno.be/Vdy1gbip/info2011-10-28weekly1.0TIK Exhibition Bratislavahttp://padma.okno.be/Vdy1gbip/poster.75.jpgYes960http://padma.okno.be/Vgpxiiud/info2011-10-27weekly1.0TIK Art Radio Sixth Showhttp://padma.okno.be/Vgpxiiud/poster.75.jpgYes956http://padma.okno.be/Vu0ztgpd/info2011-10-27weekly1.0TIK Art Radio Fifth Showhttp://padma.okno.be/Vu0ztgpd/poster.75.jpgYes722http://padma.okno.be/Vedv5e2t/info2011-10-27weekly1.0Easterndaze live from Skopjehttp://padma.okno.be/Vedv5e2t/poster.75.jpgYes7061http://padma.okno.be/Vh5fhy80/info2011-10-27weekly1.0TIK Art Radio Fourth Showhttp://padma.okno.be/Vh5fhy80/poster.75.jpgYes2812http://padma.okno.be/Vt4emtzi/info2011-10-27weekly1.0TIK Art Radio Third Showhttp://padma.okno.be/Vt4emtzi/poster.75.jpgYes5124http://padma.okno.be/Vgovzmxr/info2011-10-27weekly1.021st Century Universal Time Signalhttp://padma.okno.be/Vgovzmxr/poster.75.jpgYes12954http://padma.okno.be/Vsrkbq79/info2011-10-27weekly1.0TIK Art Radio Second Showhttp://padma.okno.be/Vsrkbq79/poster.75.jpgYes2707http://padma.okno.be/Vg8w785h/info2011-10-27weekly1.0Devinska Kobyla soundwalkhttp://padma.okno.be/Vg8w785h/poster.75.jpgYes3268http://padma.okno.be/Vtpevs72/info2011-10-27weekly1.0A night in Bratislavahttp://padma.okno.be/Vtpevs72/poster.75.jpgYes7182http://padma.okno.be/Vgorvoht/info2011-10-27weekly1.0TIK Art Radio First Showhttp://padma.okno.be/Vgorvoht/poster.75.jpgThe first live radio broadcast from the TIK Art Radio Crew. The wind blows fast. Yes267http://padma.okno.be/Vh5xhagp/info2011-09-09weekly1.0Historical Loom Mixhttp://padma.okno.be/Vh5xhagp/poster.75.jpgYes686http://padma.okno.be/Vtksfhz9/info2011-09-08weekly1.0wnd sound of the 50ieshttp://padma.okno.be/Vtksfhz9/poster.75.jpgHistorical field recording of wind blowing through a tube(?) Yes50http://padma.okno.be/Vum1jwnb/info2011-08-29weekly1.0cactus lake windhttp://padma.okno.be/Vum1jwnb/poster.75.jpgYes231http://padma.okno.be/Vtkhzumf/info2011-08-15weekly1.0Strahov, vítr ve stožárechhttp://padma.okno.be/Vtkhzumf/poster.75.jpgYes101http://padma.okno.be/Vi21wy7j/info2011-08-15weekly1.0Rajský dvůr kláštera sv. Jiljíhttp://padma.okno.be/Vi21wy7j/poster.75.jpgYes345http://padma.okno.be/Vu54lr5o/info2011-08-15weekly1.0Na střeše Galerie Harfahttp://padma.okno.be/Vu54lr5o/poster.75.jpgYes102http://padma.okno.be/Vulu2hsf/info2011-08-10weekly1.0vietor v lesehttp://padma.okno.be/Vulu2hsf/poster.75.jpgYes223http://padma.okno.be/Vi7ig8ul/info2011-08-10weekly1.0city honeybees - hobos/thermographic camerahttp://padma.okno.be/Vi7ig8ul/poster.75.jpgThese are images of bees on the landing platform, recorded with a thermographic (infrared) camera. The warm bodies of the bees light up. One can easily feel them land or take off, or just walk over the platform. The images are made at the bee-research center HOBOS in Wurzburg, Germany on wednesday august 10/2011. Since 2006 bee expert Professor Dr. Jürgen Tautz has been developing HOBOS (Honey Bee Online Studies) as a novel and interactive teaching concept. They have conceived a specialized beehive equipped with sensors, measuring devices and thermographic cameras. On the basis of this living superorganism – a key organism for many ecosystems and agriculture – one can understand different aspects of the behavior of the honeybee, ecology and agriculture at a global level. You can watch the realtime stream online: http://www.hobos.de/en/teachers-pupils/hobos-data/beehive.htmlYes161http://padma.okno.be/Vi3hm1f0/info2011-08-10weekly1.0city honeybees - hobos/endoscopic camerahttp://padma.okno.be/Vi3hm1f0/poster.75.jpgThese images are recorded inside a beehive at the bee-research center Hobos in Wurzburg, Germany. The images are made with an endoscopic camera, put inbetween the frames. We can follow the bees' action in real time. Since 2006 bee expert Professor Dr. Jürgen Tautz has been developing HOBOS (Honey Bee Online Studies) as a novel and interactive teaching concept. They have conceived a specialized beehive equipped with sensors, measuring devices and thermographic cameras. On the basis of this living superorganism – a key organism for many ecosystems and agriculture – one can understand different aspects of the behavior of the honeybee, ecology and agriculture at a global level. http://www.hobos.de/en/scientist/hobos-data/beehive.htmlYes121http://padma.okno.be/Vtol3xkd/info2011-08-09weekly1.0city honeybees - robberyhttp://padma.okno.be/Vtol3xkd/poster.75.jpgAugust 9th 2011. After extracting the last honey of the season, I was feeding the bees with sugarwater and gave them their own honeyframes as a desert. While half of the colonies discoved quickly the new foodsource, the other bees attacked (why?) one of the weak colonies at the apiary. Suddenly they were all attracted as by a magnet to the green hive, its opening not defendable - as it's an old hive, the closure was stuck. As a beekeeper (it was my responsability) I had to intervene and I tried to set up a barricade before the entry at the flighthole. it took up at least 4 hours before the situation was back to normal.Yes513http://padma.okno.be/Vtpf6ddr/info2011-08-03weekly1.0windflowerhttp://padma.okno.be/Vtpf6ddr/poster.75.jpgYes37http://padma.okno.be/Vt3l8qwc/info2011-08-03weekly1.0transmitter treehttp://padma.okno.be/Vt3l8qwc/poster.75.jpgYes184http://padma.okno.be/Ve2c67x2/info2011-11-30weekly1.0city honeybees - monitored hive -piezo recordingshttp://padma.okno.be/Ve2c67x2/poster.75.jpg2 piezo sensors were inserted into the hive: one in between the comb frames, and one right in front of the entrance. The piezo's were connected to a small mixing panel, in order to normalize the soundlevel. In the video we can see rather well how the sound is connected to the bees' actions. Purpose is to experiment further with piezo sensors connected to the hive, and to make a soundperformance together with the bees.Yes280http://padma.okno.be/Vfwzh3u4/info2011-08-03weekly1.0centaurea jacea flower, microscopic inspectionhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfwzh3u4/poster.75.jpgCentaurea jacea (Brown Knapweed) as inspected with a small field microscope. Centaurea Jacea is a species of herbaceous perennial plants in the genus Centaurea, native to dry meadows and open woodland throughout Europe. It grows to 10–80 cm tall, and flowers mainly from June to September. The flowerheads always look as if they are rayed, forming an open star and their nectar and pollen values are rather high, which makes the centaureas extremely attractive for all kinds of pollinating insects. This specimen was collected in june 2011 during the Désert Numérique festival in St. Nazaire le Désert, la Drome, France.Yes54http://padma.okno.be/Vt3avt7t/info2011-08-01weekly1.0WINDRIBBON4gustinesshttp://padma.okno.be/Vt3avt7t/poster.75.jpgYes93http://padma.okno.be/Vgczm59w/info2011-08-01weekly1.0WINDRIBBON5gustsbrancheshttp://padma.okno.be/Vgczm59w/poster.75.jpgYes136http://padma.okno.be/Vgucgko5/info2011-07-30weekly1.0WINDRIBBON6oscillationshttp://padma.okno.be/Vgucgko5/poster.75.jpgYes602http://padma.okno.be/Vfs6r74y/info2011-07-28weekly1.0kravin-windhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfs6r74y/poster.75.jpgYes128http://padma.okno.be/Vs6ceka3/info2011-06-21weekly1.0beephttp://padma.okno.be/Vs6ceka3/poster.75.jpgYes13http://padma.okno.be/Vsb6sdtx/info2011-06-21weekly1.0TIK Jinglehttp://padma.okno.be/Vsb6sdtx/poster.75.jpgYes35http://padma.okno.be/Vfwfy37r/info2011-08-09weekly1.0Jonathan_Priorhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfwfy37r/poster.75.jpgYes2724http://padma.okno.be/Vtky7fvh/info2011-06-10weekly1.0Peasant revolt soundwalkhttp://padma.okno.be/Vtky7fvh/poster.75.jpgYes608http://padma.okno.be/Vsayxgoq/info2011-06-10weekly1.0heartbeating of the museum buildinghttp://padma.okno.be/Vsayxgoq/poster.75.jpgYes302http://padma.okno.be/Vfc9nzwk/info2011-05-20weekly1.0canon vibrationshttp://padma.okno.be/Vfc9nzwk/poster.75.jpgYes71http://padma.okno.be/Vi31vojr/info2011-05-20weekly1.0canon in dhttp://padma.okno.be/Vi31vojr/poster.75.jpgaudio made at museum of peasnt uprising, croatia. part of Johnatan Prior workshop-soundwalksYes29http://padma.okno.be/Vi2jz3j7/info2011-05-20weekly1.0knight http://padma.okno.be/Vi2jz3j7/poster.75.jpgYes19http://padma.okno.be/Vsnrckkg/info2011-05-20weekly1.0ghost museumhttp://padma.okno.be/Vsnrckkg/poster.75.jpgYes88http://padma.okno.be/Vhqnd3ct/info2011-05-16weekly1.0city honeybees - okno TopBarHive swarm 2011http://padma.okno.be/Vhqnd3ct/poster.75.jpgAfter loosing a first swarm out of the TopBarHive in april 2011, we could catch this afterswarm that settled down on Okno's garden table. Due to extreme high temperatures and an advanced spring, the bees started swarming much sooner that normal. In the TopBarHive we had a lot of queen cells, and as we leave everything over to the bees in a complete natural way, we suppose that there were more than 1 afterswarm ... This swarm was not so big - we put it in our 'ready to start' monitoring hive and we add some young bees from the honey supers in the regular hive#01 in the okno rooftop garden.Yes487http://padma.okno.be/Vef71d5n/info2011-05-16weekly1.0swarm_okno_2011http://padma.okno.be/Vef71d5n/poster.75.jpgYes-1http://padma.okno.be/Vejjk5rt/info2011-05-15weekly1.0city honeybees - so-on hive04 : walkaway split-offhttp://padma.okno.be/Vejjk5rt/poster.75.jpgYes144http://padma.okno.be/Vha26no1/info2011-05-15weekly1.0city honeybees - so-on hive02 : zwermdrift_04http://padma.okno.be/Vha26no1/poster.75.jpgYes93http://padma.okno.be/Vi2pqbf4/info2011-05-15weekly1.0city honeybees - so-on hive02 : zwermdrift_03http://padma.okno.be/Vi2pqbf4/poster.75.jpgYes175http://padma.okno.be/Vdyj48gj/info2011-06-09weekly1.0city honeybees - so-on hive02 : zwermdrift_02http://padma.okno.be/Vdyj48gj/poster.75.jpgSwarm fever in hive#02, a sunday afternoon - may 2011.Yes83http://padma.okno.be/Vh5r19nl/info2011-05-15weekly1.0city honeybees - so-on hive02 : zwermdrift_01http://padma.okno.be/Vh5r19nl/poster.75.jpgYes203http://padma.okno.be/Vh5b7ps5/info2011-05-11weekly1.0TIK - OpenGreens : pleurotus ostreatus - time bendinghttp://padma.okno.be/Vh5b7ps5/poster.75.jpgThe plastic bag is filled with willow woodchips mixed with pleurotus ostreatus spawn. It took 4 weeks for the mycellium to overgrow the woodchips. The 5th week, the mushrooms started to come out the fissures in the plastic bag. During 5 days and 5 nights I took every 30 minutes a picture of the growing mushrooms. Unfortunately, the flashes didn't went off several times, which gives some jumps in the steady growth pace. But the whole is a nice example of a natural time bending process.Yes31http://padma.okno.be/Vdypdaw4/info2011-04-21weekly1.0tik radioshow helsinki 12.04.2011http://padma.okno.be/Vdypdaw4/poster.75.jpgYes7057http://padma.okno.be/Vtpepcq0/info2011-04-21weekly1.0time and peoplehttp://padma.okno.be/Vtpepcq0/poster.75.jpgYes216http://padma.okno.be/Vh63bamt/info2011-04-21weekly1.0Wolfgang Reinisch and Nicole Pruckermayrhttp://padma.okno.be/Vh63bamt/poster.75.jpgYes2275http://padma.okno.be/Vef6wz6z/info2011-04-21weekly1.0lenka dolanovahttp://padma.okno.be/Vef6wz6z/poster.75.jpgYes1772http://padma.okno.be/Vg8ocaxp/info2011-04-21weekly1.0Magdalena Verena Felicehttp://padma.okno.be/Vg8ocaxp/poster.75.jpgYes2004http://padma.okno.be/Vs6k56df/info2011-04-21weekly1.0istjarhttp://padma.okno.be/Vs6k56df/poster.75.jpgYes517http://padma.okno.be/Vgtkdo6i/info2011-04-18weekly1.0Verena Kunihttp://padma.okno.be/Vgtkdo6i/poster.75.jpgYes1847http://padma.okno.be/Vfwxtp5m/info2011-04-18weekly1.0Elli Scambor and Fraenk Zimmerhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfwxtp5m/poster.75.jpgYes1762http://padma.okno.be/Vu0ji9a0/info2011-04-18weekly1.0Annemie Maeshttp://padma.okno.be/Vu0ji9a0/poster.75.jpgYes740http://padma.okno.be/Vsbcswu0/info2011-04-18weekly1.0Florian Hollerwegerhttp://padma.okno.be/Vsbcswu0/poster.75.jpgYes1787http://padma.okno.be/Vgovtqqv/info2011-04-05weekly1.0final_showhttp://padma.okno.be/Vgovtqqv/poster.75.jpgYes1609http://padma.okno.be/Vejdevqy/info2011-04-04weekly1.0kruno_josthttp://padma.okno.be/Vejdevqy/poster.75.jpgYes752http://padma.okno.be/Vdy5hehg/info2011-04-04weekly1.0chris_hesslehttp://padma.okno.be/Vdy5hehg/poster.75.jpgYes1834http://padma.okno.be/Vtomu71z/info2011-04-04weekly1.0nina_czegledyhttp://padma.okno.be/Vtomu71z/poster.75.jpgYes613http://padma.okno.be/Vezqq9t2/info2011-04-04weekly1.0verena_kunihttp://padma.okno.be/Vezqq9t2/poster.75.jpgYes1591http://padma.okno.be/Vgoq9wb8/info2011-03-23weekly1.0presentation_servus.athttp://padma.okno.be/Vgoq9wb8/poster.75.jpgYes2338http://padma.okno.be/Vu05p2xn/info2011-04-21weekly1.0Radiodays-connectedhttp://padma.okno.be/Vu05p2xn/poster.75.jpgYes357http://padma.okno.be/Vhqxd83x/info2011-03-21weekly1.0TIK-radio-polyphonic-orchestrahttp://padma.okno.be/Vhqxd83x/poster.75.jpgYes1603http://padma.okno.be/Vtko6m4n/info2011-03-18weekly1.0second-try-TIKradiohttp://padma.okno.be/Vtko6m4n/poster.75.jpgYes1568http://padma.okno.be/Vt8fbwet/info2011-03-18weekly1.0first-score-trialhttp://padma.okno.be/Vt8fbwet/poster.75.jpgYes1098http://padma.okno.be/Veugfiaf/info2011-03-18weekly1.0Moss clock @ radio tikhttp://padma.okno.be/Veugfiaf/poster.75.jpgYes125http://padma.okno.be/Ve2s6y1q/info2011-03-18weekly1.0polyhttp://padma.okno.be/Ve2s6y1q/poster.75.jpgYes336http://padma.okno.be/Vt8lis5w/info2011-03-17weekly1.0Danube shortcuthttp://padma.okno.be/Vt8lis5w/poster.75.jpgUnderwater Recording (made in Danube near the famous water shortcut "Novy most")Yes283http://padma.okno.be/Vulzl399/info2011-03-18weekly1.0TIK - Graz: radio helsinki 02http://padma.okno.be/Vulzl399/poster.75.jpgReni Hofmueller's weekly raioshow on radio Helsinki in Graz. March 15th she invited Annemie Maes en Danielle Roberts to talk about the presentation of the OpenGreens database at ESC, and to explain to the listeners the TIK - time inventors' kabinet - project.Yes3595http://padma.okno.be/Vtjstuaq/info2011-03-18weekly1.0TIK - Graz: radio helsinki 01http://padma.okno.be/Vtjstuaq/poster.75.jpgReni Hofmueller's weekly raioshow on radio Helsinki in Graz. March 15th she invited Annemie Maes en Danielle Roberts to talk about the presentation of the OpenGreens database at ESC, and to explain to the listeners the TIK - time inventors' kabinet - project.Yes3595http://padma.okno.be/Vfxa0edd/info2011-03-17weekly1.0windmusichttp://padma.okno.be/Vfxa0edd/poster.75.jpgYes176http://padma.okno.be/Vffy73yf/info2011-03-17weekly1.0granularhttp://padma.okno.be/Vffy73yf/poster.75.jpgYes269http://padma.okno.be/Vg88brb7/info2011-03-17weekly1.0Sound of a moss clockhttp://padma.okno.be/Vg88brb7/poster.75.jpgYes7http://padma.okno.be/Vfg4fgkr/info2011-03-17weekly1.0Hazy Radio discussionshttp://padma.okno.be/Vfg4fgkr/poster.75.jpgManipulated audio recording from TIK Radiodays in Bratisalva, March 2011 where Juergen Rendl (AT/SK), Michal Cudrnak (SK), Nina Czegledy (HU), Marton Andras Juhasz (HU), Laszlo Kiss (HU), Verena Kuni (DE), Kruno Jost (HR), Barbara Huber (AT/SK), Michal Kindernay (CZ), Guy van Belle (BE) disscused on time and hazy time.Yes429http://padma.okno.be/Vtk6a8d7/info2011-03-17weekly1.0shortcut and historyhttp://padma.okno.be/Vtk6a8d7/poster.75.jpgYes26http://padma.okno.be/Vffy995e/info2011-03-17weekly1.0ecomtimezone-trznicaIIhttp://padma.okno.be/Vffy995e/poster.75.jpgYes70http://padma.okno.be/Veitxx4a/info2011-03-17weekly1.0ecotimezone-trznicahttp://padma.okno.be/Veitxx4a/poster.75.jpgYes151http://padma.okno.be/Vu5ac6fp/info2011-03-17weekly1.0ecotimezone-trhoviskoIIhttp://padma.okno.be/Vu5ac6fp/poster.75.jpgYes60http://padma.okno.be/Vtjgi28e/info2011-03-17weekly1.0ecotimezone-trhoviskohttp://padma.okno.be/Vtjgi28e/poster.75.jpgYes104http://padma.okno.be/Vevq68n8/info2011-03-17weekly1.0Two channels shortcut I.http://padma.okno.be/Vevq68n8/poster.75.jpgLeft channel is filled by sound of the shortcut in direction up to the Bratislava castle. Right channel is filled by sound of regular path around. Both sounds are time modulated to the mix of the first and second path, slower and faster experience.Yes47http://padma.okno.be/Vfb5p8dv/info2011-03-17weekly1.0tsjiptrackhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfb5p8dv/poster.75.jpgYes12http://padma.okno.be/Vtol65tt/info2011-03-16weekly1.0splitstereowindflagsfieldrerecordinghttp://padma.okno.be/Vtol65tt/poster.75.jpgField recordings, as recreated recordings with a functional angle.. sitting on slobody namestie (bratislava), to the left were 2 flags, a slovak and eu one, and curiously they were waving differently in the wind, so the original field recording consisted of people walking and talking, which is not so interesting nor special… so I replaced them with a synthetic rendering of the left and right flag in each channel (split stereo: “It is possible that a one-channel audio file is one half of a stereo pair. These are known as split stereo files, because the left and right channels are contained in independent files”) just with a noise generator going through left and right a series of filters, controlled by the amount of waving of the flag (video, framedifferences) ah well - so I consider this a field recording, a flag recording too… Yes673http://padma.okno.be/Vu5mkyhp/info2011-03-06weekly1.0radio-typisthttp://padma.okno.be/Vu5mkyhp/poster.75.jpgYes97http://padma.okno.be/Vs7227t6/info2011-03-06weekly1.0radio-printerhttp://padma.okno.be/Vs7227t6/poster.75.jpgYes23http://padma.okno.be/Ve2s4pzs/info2011-03-05weekly1.0radio-supermarkethttp://padma.okno.be/Ve2s4pzs/poster.75.jpgYes104http://padma.okno.be/Vezj9t75/info2011-03-05weekly1.0radio_shopping_mallhttp://padma.okno.be/Vezj9t75/poster.75.jpgYes138http://padma.okno.be/Vgue8x96/info2011-03-05weekly1.0radio-disheshttp://padma.okno.be/Vgue8x96/poster.75.jpgYes436http://padma.okno.be/Vi7b2jb5/info2011-03-04weekly1.0radio-bank_transfer02http://padma.okno.be/Vi7b2jb5/poster.75.jpgYes316http://padma.okno.be/Vfrnadrn/info2011-03-03weekly1.0radio-childhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfrnadrn/poster.75.jpgYes23http://padma.okno.be/Vhqlp56q/info2011-03-03weekly1.0radio-washing_machinehttp://padma.okno.be/Vhqlp56q/poster.75.jpgYes301http://padma.okno.be/Vfsowu0m/info2011-03-16weekly1.0radio-frankfurt-hbfhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfsowu0m/poster.75.jpgYes343http://padma.okno.be/Vg909pa9/info2011-03-03weekly1.0radio-v_lesehttp://padma.okno.be/Vg909pa9/poster.75.jpgYes223http://padma.okno.be/Vhaxkcp1/info2011-03-03weekly1.0radio-mouthharphttp://padma.okno.be/Vhaxkcp1/poster.75.jpgYes115http://padma.okno.be/Vee745ld/info2011-03-03weekly1.0radio-metro_viennahttp://padma.okno.be/Vee745ld/poster.75.jpgYes99http://padma.okno.be/Vgduxoku/info2011-02-01weekly1.0Open Greens at ChangingTentshttp://padma.okno.be/Vgduxoku/poster.75.jpgSix tents and a car together form a temporary zone for social and economic change. A group of artists have been invited by Radical_Hope (Heike Langsdorf) to set up this out-of-the-ordinary “camp”. On Monday January 17 everyone is welcome to come and learn to erect the hexayurts. A hexayurt is a special kind of tent, designed by Vinay Gupta as incredibly cheap shelter for those in need. You can then stay and get involved in the week-long process of action that aims to generate ideas: ideas about new ways of organising work, urban food production, alternative energy management, innovative financing schemes and so on. The Okno participation in Burning Ice #4 consists of an OpenGreens Exchange Corner. The trading basis is the Connected OpenGreen Catalog … this is a book to be written in a collaborative way. It lists all goods and services that can be exchanged between OpenGreen users. The maquette of the book is the basis for the discussions in the OpenGreens exchange corner, and the shared information and services cover different urban topics. You can consider the book as a manual/proposition for living in the cities in a different way … If we want to alter our habits, we’ll have to change our ideas on what is most essential and necessary in our lives. We’ll have to break with the common rules, deviate from the norm and create dynamic structures. Therefore we’ll use temporary places as the OpenGreens. How sustainable is the city? Can we provide for our own food, our own energy, our own media ecology? Can we grow a selection of fruits and vegetables in rooftop gardens or collect wild edible plants in wastelands and on building sites - enough to live on? Are you interested to start your own OpenGreen, on your balcony, your rooftop or your window sill? Come and talk to us, we can advise you on how to set up green patches in unusual places … and get the best out of it. You can find all information on OpenGreens in the first edition of our OpenGreens catalog, download the catalog here: http://so-on.be/SO-ON/OpenGreen/COG-catalog/v.1.0-smallspread.pdfYes720http://padma.okno.be/Vh6eypfu/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - grab time workshop 3http://padma.okno.be/Vh6eypfu/poster.75.jpgtik network programing for windtime protocol first resumeYes262http://padma.okno.be/Vhn08tsn/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - Korcula lenz windmillhttp://padma.okno.be/Vhn08tsn/poster.75.jpgYes55http://padma.okno.be/Veeuxjcv/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - Korcula lenz windmill 2http://padma.okno.be/Veeuxjcv/poster.75.jpgYes19http://padma.okno.be/Vt44pllw/info2010-12-17weekly1.0TIK - writing tiks, padma, ecoconference01http://padma.okno.be/Vt44pllw/poster.75.jpgWRITING TIKS is a workshop about a hypothetical content, method and style for new ecological media writing today. In a concise 3-day program (17-19 November 2010 at OKNO, Brussels), we try to lay the foundations for a common style in treating the TIK themes and materials. Conform to the purpose of the 2-year project, and its bottom-up but collaborative strategies, we deal with the several blind spots that are still open, for thinking about a changed creative output in any media form: text, code, image, sound, word,… The real subject of workshops is closely related to the TIK project scheme and deals with: - the available documentation of the previous events and activities - the representation and creative media writing throughout the project - the outline of a common strategy for dealing with artistic research currently - the content of the future conferences and publications PADMA During the TIK-project we organise in Brussels (22-25/11) a 'further development workshop' on padma, led by its conceptors: Jan Gerber and Sebastian Luettger (0x2620.org, Berlin) and Sanjay Bhangar (CAMP, Bombay). The aim of the workshop is : 1. research how we can use padma as a tool for creative writing and documenting collaborative processes as TIK - starting from different theoretical approaches for writing though media files, as e.g. the grounded theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounded_theory) 2. to research how padma can be embedded in or linked to other applications, as there are blender, pd, drupal, … to name some. 3. work on specific features in padma, to make it possible tu use padma as a 'stand alone, realtime installation/documentation' project — (e.g. automatic editing based on keywords …) namely the time machine. What are ways to start thinking about pulling material out of pad.ma? From the onset, pad.ma has had an API (documented at http://wiki.pad.ma/wiki/API), a programming interface that allows you to pull out videos, perform searches, seek to exact time-codes in any video, fetch transcript and map data, and display all this however you please. Also Pad.ma's General Public License (PGPL, http://pad.ma/license) is designed specifically for the reuse of the material on pad.ma. Through the experience of running the archive, there have been various imaginations of multiple and layered forms of time-based annotation over video, including for: pedagogical tools for learning and discussion; presentation tools that combine text and video in new ways, essays and other writing formats enabled by rich and context-specific media. At this workshop, we hope to explore some of content/technical ideas to annotate video on the web, and new qualities for videos (decomposting, automatic editing, …) as a result of online practices. We invite all TIK-collaborators to participate. Please upload your TIK video material, texts and/or software that, combined with existing materials and tools in pad.ma, can become innovative kinds of “output”, or new forms. These would also then feedback into the archive, and how we imagine its future. EKOTIME CONFERENCE 01 At the first Eko Time conference we want to try to define a kind of convergent approach within the Time Inventors' Kabinet. Several of the project's items will be discussed, like: - the content possibilities of the future EkoTime Conferences - the content possibilities of the future Open Greens - the state of the art of the Wind Clock developments - creative presentations about the creative works that are in development - possible collaborative proposals for the future (see in more detail also the links activated when clicking the participant's names on this page: http://timeinventorskabinet.org/wiki/doku.php/ekotime1Yes2528http://padma.okno.be/Vgdn2qm4/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - Guy and annotationshttp://padma.okno.be/Vgdn2qm4/poster.75.jpgYes47http://padma.okno.be/Vi31pqsh/info2011-04-05weekly1.0TIK - presentations: padma Interviewshttp://padma.okno.be/Vi31pqsh/poster.75.jpgYes1381http://padma.okno.be/Vt8jnrc5/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - Reni ecointerviewhttp://padma.okno.be/Vt8jnrc5/poster.75.jpgYes403http://padma.okno.be/Vfwtr8rz/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - Korcula #4http://padma.okno.be/Vfwtr8rz/poster.75.jpgjust some snapshots, people at workYes302http://padma.okno.be/Ve2s7fr8/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - writing tiks day 2 - presentationhttp://padma.okno.be/Ve2s7fr8/poster.75.jpgYes476http://padma.okno.be/Vedp18on/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - writing tiks day 1 - presentationhttp://padma.okno.be/Vedp18on/poster.75.jpgpresentation of the discutions of the dayYes530http://padma.okno.be/Vfg2s1pe/info2010-11-08weekly1.0Open Greens Research #07http://padma.okno.be/Vfg2s1pe/poster.75.jpg-timelapse observation on a fig tree /1 week later, sunday november 1st- Sunrise at 07:46 in direction 116° East-southeast Sunset at 17:06 in direction 244° West-southwest Duration of day: 9 hours, 19 minutes Sun in south at 12:26 at altitude 23° above horizon Civil twilight begins at 07:11, ends at 17:41 Nautical twilight begins at 06:31, ends at 18:21 Astronomical twilight begins at 05:53, ends at 18:59 Moonrise at10:40 in direction 131° Southeast Moonset at 18:27 in direction 229° Southwest Moon in south at 14:33 at altitude 15° above horizon Previous phase New Moon Saturday, 6 November 2010, 05:52 Next phase First Quarter Saturday, 13 November 2010, 17:38 http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/belgium/brussels/historic http://so-on.be/SO-ON/OpenGreen/weatheroverview/weatheroverview-03.jpgYes89http://padma.okno.be/Vsrillax/info2011-02-01weekly1.0Open Greens Research #06http://padma.okno.be/Vsrillax/poster.75.jpg-time lapse observation of a fig tree- sunday october 31 Sunrise at 07:39 in direction 114° East-southeast Sunset at 17:12 in direction 246°West-southwest Duration of day: 9 hours, 33 minutes Sun in south at 12:26 at altitude 24° above horizon Civil twilight begins at 07:04, ends at 17:47 Nautical twilight begins at 06:25, ends at 18:26 Astronomical twilight begins at 05:47, ends at 19:05 Moonrise at 05:26 in direction 107° East-southeast Moonset at 15:51 in direction 250° West-southwest Moon in south at 10:45 at altitude 28° above horizon Fraction illuminated: 4.9% (at 09:37) Previous phase Third Quarter [Saturday, 30 October 2010, 14:46] Next phase New Moon [Saturday, 6 November 2010, 05:52] http://so-on.be/SO-ON/OpenGreen/weatheroverview/weatheroverview-02.jpg http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/belgium/brussels/historicYes152http://padma.okno.be/Vha25801/info2010-10-30weekly1.0Open Greens Research #05http://padma.okno.be/Vha25801/poster.75.jpgA close look at the beehives 1, 2 and 3 on friday october 29th. Noon. The t° is suddenly raising to 17.5°. The foraging bees leave the hive and return with pollen. They are very agitated. Young worker bees make their first flights. All the bees' action is provocated by the appearance of the sun and by the warmth of the sun. Bees are sun-loving animals and they adore warmth. In 1977, Joseph Beuys created a monumental installation for documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany. Entitled Honeypump in the Workplace, it pumped two tons of honey through plastic tubing, using motors lubricated with over 200 pounds of margarine. Honeypump was the embodiment of Beuys' idea that energy (in this case, honey) and heat (generated by the machine's motion) are symbolically connected to the notion of social sculpture. Beuys often cited energy and warmth as important concepts in his sculpture. The two are closely connected physical phenomena--heat is in fact a kind of energy and is often produced in tandem with other kinds of energy, such as light and motion. But for Beuys they also were powerful metaphors suggestive of the transformation, both spiritual and physical, that he felt contemporary culture needed to undergo. http://www.walkerart.org/archive/4/9C4311B2C56C80996167.htmYes179http://padma.okno.be/Vtolhiyi/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - windclocks : so-on01-week 41+42http://padma.okno.be/Vtolhiyi/poster.75.jpgThis is a windclock model we made during the TIK workshop in Korcula. It's based on the 15th century anemometer model of Leonardo Da Vinci. After the workshop I installed the windclock in the rooftopgarden in Brussels. Following video is a shows the working windclock on a windy day. The clock is connected to an arduino and computer, and the max patch (made by Junior) lists the plants in the garden and renders as such a textual garden in which the fontsize is related to the windforce. The links below connect to the visual textgarden movies, created by the windclock: http://padma.okno.be/Vfruyrkp/info http://padma.okno.be/Veeoqm2v/info 'language to be looked at and pictures to be read' (R.Smithson)Yes142http://padma.okno.be/Vfb5n2fr/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - OpenGreens : textual garden #03 - week42http://padma.okno.be/Vfb5n2fr/poster.75.jpgYes66http://padma.okno.be/Veeoqm2v/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - OpenGreens : textual garden #02 - week42http://padma.okno.be/Veeoqm2v/poster.75.jpg a weekly overview of t° and windspeed - week 42: october 18-24 http://so-on.be/SO-ON/OpenGreen/weatheroverview/weatheroverview-01.jpgYes67http://padma.okno.be/Vfruyrkp/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - OpenGreens : textual garden #01 - week41http://padma.okno.be/Vfruyrkp/poster.75.jpgA plexiglass windclock, based on a Da Vinci anemometer model. The clock has a gradient range from black to white, and a photosensor reads out the temporary values generated by the wind. Test-Location 2: so-on’s OpenGreen rooftop, Brussels - a cold day in october. The proof : measuring the windtime and describing the OpenGreen rooftop garden in the center of Brussels. The wind-values, registrated by the photosensor, are linked to the list of plants growing in the rooftop garden. The stronger the wind blows, the more present the plantnames appear - expressed in fontsize. The overall movie gets a voice-over by the bees of the garden: they comment on their foraging area and add another layer to the wind movie.Yes124http://padma.okno.be/Vtkgk9jz/info2010-10-20weekly1.0Open Greens : the bee and the varroa mitehttp://padma.okno.be/Vtkgk9jz/poster.75.jpgDuring a check of the hives, I found this young workerbee just next to the flighthole. The t° being below 10°, I guess she was hit by the cold. She seemed more dead than alive, and I decided to take her inside for an inspection under the microscope. While filming, a varroamite fell out of her thorax-fur. The young bee got more lively again, due to the warmth of the microscope lights. I put her in front of the flighthole, and she nicely walked into the hive again. I destroyed the dirty varroa mite. Varroa is still a huge problem for hive#01. Some 30 mites a week are dropping down, even after a treatment with Thymovar. I’ll have to look into another solution if I don’t want to lose the colony. The 4 other colonies (2 at so-on’s and 2 at okno’s Open Green) are healthy.Yes127http://padma.okno.be/Vgczk2np/info2010-10-12weekly1.0Open Greens Research #04http://padma.okno.be/Vgczk2np/poster.75.jpgWriting the Wilderness Where is the litterature which gives expression to Nature? He would be a poet who could impress the winds and streams into his service, to speak for him; who nailed words to their primitive senses, as farmers drive down stakes in the spring, which the frost has heaved; who derived his words as often as he used them – transplanted them to his page with earth adhering to their roots; whose words were so true and fresh and natural that they would appear to expand like the buds at the approach of spring, though they lay half smothered between two musty leaves in a library – aye, to bloom and bear fruit there, after their kind, annually, for the faithful reader, in sympathy with surrounding Nature. Henry David Thoreau – Writing the Wilderness From ‘Walking’ (1862), in Essays and Other Writings Ed. Will H. Dircks, London: Walter Scott Ltd, 1895. Yes124http://padma.okno.be/Vhqxb16m/info2011-05-03weekly1.0Open Greens Research #03http://padma.okno.be/Vhqxb16m/poster.75.jpgLooking for Mushrooms. Friday, october 8th, I went to look for mushrooms at the Jardin Experimental Massart, one of the the fieldworkspaces of the biology department of the free university of Brussels (ULB). On my way over there, I was thinking about one of the 20th century pioneer-experimental artists: John Cage. John Cage was not only a major figure of the musical avant-garde but also an avid mycologist, collector and consumer of mushrooms. His knowledge of the fungal world was legendary. Indeterminacy was a lecture/performance work in which Cage recited a series of one minute stories and anecdotes in no particular order. Many of these stories related to his love of mushrooms and his experiences of collecting and studying them. In the experimental garden/forest, I picked some of the mushrooms to study them in my studio. Following movie gives random impressions of the research of the species under the microscope, accompanied by an excerpt of Indeterminacy, read by Cage.Yes499http://padma.okno.be/Vi7mhvdp/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - windclocks : trees http://padma.okno.be/Vi7mhvdp/poster.75.jpgYes598http://padma.okno.be/Vsbgqwov/info2010-11-22weekly1.0TIK - korcula #1http://padma.okno.be/Vsbgqwov/poster.75.jpgThe workshop windclocks building in KorculaYes588http://padma.okno.be/Vsschmrt/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - windclocks : windmill's prototypes & synthesishttp://padma.okno.be/Vsschmrt/poster.75.jpgYes117http://padma.okno.be/Vhm0nrj8/info2010-10-19weekly1.0TIK - korcula #2http://padma.okno.be/Vhm0nrj8/poster.75.jpgYes201http://padma.okno.be/Veep1zso/info2010-10-18weekly1.0TIK - korcula #3http://padma.okno.be/Veep1zso/poster.75.jpgYes926http://padma.okno.be/Vhm4r3ki/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - mouse windclock cardboard testhttp://padma.okno.be/Vhm4r3ki/poster.75.jpgYes40http://padma.okno.be/Vs77s5g7/info2011-04-13weekly1.0TIK - windclocks : stoneshttp://padma.okno.be/Vs77s5g7/poster.75.jpgStones are recordings of the slow passing of time and the turbulence of matter-energy. Yes598http://padma.okno.be/Vhae3zqd/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - windclocks : kravínhttp://padma.okno.be/Vhae3zqd/poster.75.jpgThe Summer Workshops Kravín take place in a rural environment, at the edge of the small village Hranice u Malce, in the Vysocina region of the Czech Republic. The activities twist around the several main themes: beekeeping / wind clocks / radio art / + agri-kultura. In the beekeeping workshop, Annemie Maes will talk about new artistic approaches towards beekeeping and her experiences with the citz beehives. The apiarists from Vysocina from the Czech Beekeepers Union (Cesky svaz vcelaru - see http://www.beekeeping.cz/) will talk about their experiences. We plan to visit the nearby beekeeping educational center in Nasavrky village, with the arboretum (http://www.souvnasavrky.cz/). Hopefuly some of the numerous local beekeepers will also come. With Gert Aertsen, Marcio Domingues, Hannes Hoelzl, Gívan Belá, Michal Kindernay and others you can invent ecological time with wind clocks in an open air workshop. The idea is to construct a series of simple wind mills - clocks in the surroundings of Kravín. Amplion: together with Czech artist Johana Svarcova you can work on a radio play, which will hopefully go on air in the village radios. In the evenings, we plan to have discussions, screenings, concerts, artistic presentations within an agri-cultural context. Also Diafilm Sound Robots by Barbara Huber, a selection of Hungarian movies curated by Livia Roszas, Kravin movie by Viola Jezkova, concert by the band from Brno, Hugo a Zoe. And the local country Bago band for the opening. You will find the actual information here: http://yo-yo-yo.org/summer_workshops_kravin.html. Yes588http://padma.okno.be/Vej61mjh/info2011-02-01weekly1.0TIK - windclocks : leaveshttp://padma.okno.be/Vej61mjh/poster.75.jpgYes598http://padma.okno.be/Vsrug41r/info2010-11-19weekly1.0Open Greens : Urban Beekeepers Part 01http://padma.okno.be/Vsrug41r/poster.75.jpgA first approach to cover Urban Beekeeping in visuals. Get familiar with the 5 beehives of the OKNO and SO-ON apiaries in Brussels city center. The beehives are located in the 2 rooftop gardens of the TIK project: the wildflower garden of OKNO and the edible forest rooftop garden of SO-ON. Footage covers foraging and swarming of the bees, as well as the topic 'bees as architects' - which will be the main topic of our bee-observation and research over the coming months/years. The Bee Observatories in the OpenGreen-project transforms 2 rooftop gardens located in the center of Brussels at about half a kilometer distance from each other into communicating vessels. Several hives with both carnica and buckfast bees were installed in the gardens. The bees manage to bridge the spatial distance and associate the locations by going about their business and natural processes within their individual yet overlapping territories. The presence and activities of the bee colonies makes the gardens interconnect and interfere. The emerging inter-space can be perceived as place of encounters and neighborhood. set-up : In a first stage, the project idea suggests the transformation of 2 urban rooftop gardens into interfering, communicating (synchroniced) entities by installing bees into both spaces. The two roof top gardens are located at about 400 metes of distance from each other at Koolmijnenkai 30 (OKNO) and Vlaamsesteenweg 60, respectively and offer convenient locations for beehives. The “technical” necessity of air channels for free entrance and exit flight trajectories and sunny location for at least parts of the day are met. The inter-visibility between the two places is given and hence emphasizes the “symmunicative” and encountering nature of the installation. The distance between the locations can be metaphorically bridged by the bee's presence and their natural activities. Since each colony will be active in a radius of at least a few kilometers from their housing hive, the respective trajectories, areas of floral visits and individual territories will be overlapping and an interference of the hives/gardens takes place. A new space of encounter, the mutual area of existence, can be defined, a new perception of neighborhood can be realized. satellite view Observatory - Documentation : Observing and monitoring the activities of the hives coupled with ongoing documentation of each individual hive as well as the interaction between the different colonies will be performed. Information can be obtained from bee hives through visually observing, by listening or smelling. Changes of the hives can be monitored in terms of weight, size or outside/inside temperature of the habitation/colony and via the honey amount or quality. This data has abundant information value, but can also be used and made available in a more indirect/symbolic way. A translation of the signals/data into something publicly accessible is intended. Direct “public moments” on the rooftop gardens in the vicinity of the hives add an interactive facet. Interconnection with special flowers : In garden 1, the plants are chosen on their edible qualities. Also the nectar and pollen values are an important factor to decide which plants will be choses or which grains will be sown. In garden 2, the experiment is different. Here, the plants come with the birds and the winds, and we'll monitor the values of this complete natural setup and how the bees react on it. Yes1123http://padma.okno.be/Vsb5aud1/info2010-10-20weekly1.0Open Greens Research #01http://padma.okno.be/Vsb5aud1/poster.75.jpgOpenGreens : marginal zones in the city where culture and nature overlap and enter into a symbiotic relationship. The range of habitats in urban areas is surprising. Most of the major terrestrial habitat types are represented in towns and cities, either as remnants of previously rural environments, or as artificial analogues of semi-natural habitats. The Open Green project focuses on two rooftopgardens located in Brussels’ city center, 400 m apart : an edible forest rooftop garden on top of a parking lot and a wild flower rooftop garden on top of an old warehouse. The Open Green project blends organic and technological matter into one and the same nature. Through analogue and digital means we do long term observations on the growth, blossoming and decay of plants and insects submitted to natural elements such as wind, sun, rain and pollution in an urban context. We monitor and extract data from natural processes both on a micro garden level as on a macro city level and make the data available online in realtime with open wireless citynetworks. We research the connections between people, technology and the possible applications of the rooftop gardens. Can the gardens’ evolution be controlled, generated, enhanced or imagined in artworks? Does the fusion of natural and artificial matter produce new organisms, new environments, new forms of nature? Can technology animate nature and vice versa? The Open Green is an artificial environment, a hybrid of nature and culture. The harvest is about scraping data of any kind from the garden and using it for organic ánd media applications. Yes1008http://padma.okno.be/Vt48qpeu/info2010-10-20weekly1.0Open Greens : the macro flyhttp://padma.okno.be/Vt48qpeu/poster.75.jpgA quick examination of a fly under the microscope. It's the first day that i connect the small usb microscope to my computer, and even if the quality is not professional, it opens up a new world to me. Yes133http://padma.okno.be/Vdx5xyai/info2011-08-12weekly1.0city honeybees - foraging beeshttp://padma.okno.be/Vdx5xyai/poster.75.jpgCity honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees foraging in a city rooftopgarden. The flowers are forthcoming from a Tübinger seedmix, composed for foraging insects to cover nectar supply over the months april till september. The main ingredients of the mix are Phacelia, Boragio Officinalis, Buckwheat, Calendula and Sinapis Alba (mustardseed). In honey-terms we speak from a 'mixed flower' honey. People are encouraged to sow a piece of their land, garden, city, ... with this mix to support biodiversity and to offer more food to pollinators, as they are a necessary element in our (organic) foodchain.Yes716http://padma.okno.be/Vt353wo7/info2010-07-12weekly1.0city honeybees - thunderstorm behaviourhttp://padma.okno.be/Vt353wo7/poster.75.jpgA Brussels rooftop garden. After a long period of hot weather, clouds are packing and are announcing a thunderstorm. As the weather is changing, the behaviour of the bees is changing too. Whilst they were actively foraging the phacelia flowers, they now return to their hives where the guard-bees are awaiting them outside on the landing platform. They all fly around the hive, agitated, till the dark clouds are passing by.Yes827http://padma.okno.be/Vfsom73j/info2010-07-12weekly1.0city honeybees - comb and cell structureshttp://padma.okno.be/Vfsom73j/poster.75.jpgA piece of comb that the bees started to build in a piece of styrofoam. Styrofoam was put into the hive because the colony was a split of from another hive, and not yet strong enough to survive on the 12 frames of a Kempische hive. Therefore we reduced the hive till 5 frames, blocking it left and right with pieces of styrofoam. Note that the transition from styrofoam structure to cell structure reveals exactly the same pattersn ...Yes189http://padma.okno.be/Vg8u9508/info2010-10-19weekly1.0Open Greens : edible forest rooftop garden - timelapse #2http://padma.okno.be/Vg8u9508/poster.75.jpgWhy garden on rooftops in the city? Gardening on rooftops in ever-increasingly dense and sprawling cities is an original way to take back unused and sterile spaces like rooftops, patios and balconies and to transform them into livable spaces that are lush, productive and purifying. In addition to embellishing the urban landscape with food-producing gardens at the tops of buildings and producing fresh food, these new spaces for the community enable us to reduce the ecological footprint of the houses and institutions of which we are an integral part. Recovering and decontaminating water, cultivating organic food, composting organic waste as well as ?ltering and cooling down air are all part of a mindset to make our established landscape more sustainable. Therefore, in the current context of environmental degradation, over-consumption and junk food culture, taking care of ourselves and our environment enables us to take a step down the path to healthy cities and communities. Rooftop gardening means taking up an inspiring, ecological and productive activity, and developing new links with the food chain, the seasons, the environment and the community. This utopia’s vision is to turn the city into a garden and its inhabitants into gardeners. The 8th of march 2010 we started to setup a permaculture rooftopgarden on the 6th floor of a parking in the center of Brussels. It was a very cold day, -6° , cloudy and snowy. The next day we got some icy sun but all of us were freezing, working outside! At the end of the second day, the basic structure of the garden was in place. The evolution from a bare parkinglot rooftop to the basics of a rooftop garden can be seen in this timelapse movie. We will give regular updates of the edible forest rooftopgarden over the different seasons. We will also setup a database of all the trees, shrubs, plants, herbs, wild flowers, fruits and vegetables that found a spot in this rooftop garden. Following video covers the 2 setup days, with a framerate of 1 image/second. The length of the video is 27 minutes but it spans 2 days of work!Yes1598http://padma.okno.be/Vu0do93j/info2010-06-07weekly1.0city honeybees - carnica's swarming twicehttp://padma.okno.be/Vu0do93j/poster.75.jpgOn a beautiful day early june, the carnica bees started to swarm, completely unexpected. No signs, no spare queen cells. They gathered in one of the olive trees of the rooftop garden, and after a few hours they formed a perfect cluster, ready to catch ... or to fly away.Yes516http://padma.okno.be/Vs623ohg/info2010-10-20weekly1.0city honeybees - story of the bee swarmshttp://padma.okno.be/Vs623ohg/poster.75.jpgThe bee communities multiply by swarming. One part of the population of the hive moves with the old queen and founds a new colony. The other half of the population stays in the old hive, with a new queen. To raise new queens the workers build appropriate cells called queen cells. Shortly before the first of the new queens emerges from her cell, the old queen leaves the hive accompanied by half of the community. The swarming bees settle around the queen in a large cluster. Scout bees are busy looking after a suitable nesting site. They inform the waiting swarm in bees’ language -by dancing on its surface- in what direction and at what distance the new home is to be found. All age groups of bees are represented in a swarm, so there will be no shortage of building labor. On a beautiful day early june, the carnica bees started to swarm, completely unexpected. No signs, no spare queen cells. They gathered in one of the olive trees of the rooftop garden, and after a few hours they formed a perfect cluster, ready to catch ... or to fly away. Yes516http://padma.okno.be/Vfbbh2nc/info2010-05-26weekly1.0city honeybees - seedballshttp://padma.okno.be/Vfbbh2nc/poster.75.jpgThe Tübinger-seedmix consists of 10 annual flowering plant species: borage (Borago officinalis), buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), marigold (Calendula officinalis), white mustard (Sinapis alba), coriander (Coriandrum sativum), caraway (Carum carvi), centaurea jacea (Centaurea jacea), cheeseplant (Malva neglecta), dill (Anethum graveolens) and phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) in different proportions. They attract a diversity of flower-visiting insects, including the honey bee and many species of bumble bees. Sequential sowings provide nectar and pollen from early summer to late autumn and fill the gaps when food for pollinators becomes scarce. Different insect species are favoured by different sowing-dates and plant species.Yes206http://padma.okno.be/Vfrbbgml/info2010-12-01weekly1.0city honeybees - catching the big swarmhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfrbbgml/poster.75.jpgIn this video we catch the swarm. For me, it was a first experience with a bee-swarm. Luckily we had an experienced beekeeper between us. Aloys took a plastic bucket and a wooden stick, an in a gentle way he 'pushed' the bees into the bucket. We had to repeat this several times, till all the swarm-bees, hanging from the little 'connected-dome' garden table, were in the bucket. The atmosphere was very bizar. There was something in the air, an unexpressed tension. Bees were everywhere in the garden. On every leaf, on every plant. They were dead-quiet, their stomachs filled with honey. But the feeling was that this behaviour could change in a second. A rather 'Hitchcock-anian' experience.Yes969http://padma.okno.be/Vfwxn6ld/info2010-05-26weekly1.0city honeybees - kempische hive swarminghttp://padma.okno.be/Vfwxn6ld/poster.75.jpgThe second week of may the Kempische Hive (with Carnica bees) at okno started to swarm. This was rather unforeseen, we had planned to catch (a possible) swarm early june to put it in the new TopBarHive we constructed earlier that year, with the purpose to put sensortechnology in the hive to monitor the bees. But the bees ran on their own schedule, and we had to follow. The experience of catching a first swarm was rather strong and emotional. of course I did not have a pro-camera with me, so I recorded the process with my photo-camera and with my mobile phone.Yes360http://padma.okno.be/Vhqrc2q3/info2010-11-18weekly1.0Open Greens : okno rooftop garden anaglyph test #01http://padma.okno.be/Vhqrc2q3/poster.75.jpgYes292http://padma.okno.be/Vi3brhzu/info2010-05-26weekly1.0city honeybees - small hive swarminghttp://padma.okno.be/Vi3brhzu/poster.75.jpgOne hive, that we just we have made up of a queen and part of other swarming hive, was not happy with his home. The bees decided to quit, and assemble outside of the hive... Yes61http://padma.okno.be/Vuhf1113/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : questionnaire Okno - Brusselshttp://padma.okno.be/Vuhf1113/poster.75.jpgThe research project ‘Politics of Change’ is a collective work in which artists, working women, activists and ecologists, economists, educators and anthropologists want to initiate collaborative dialogues to research ideas and solutions, which support decentralised structures, diversity and community development. The project involves not only public discussion, but an extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context. Drawing on a wide range of artistic and theoretical fields, the aim is to imagine new and sustainable relationships between humans, their environments and technologies. As artists, filmmakers, theorists and activists we have to enrich the public debate around sustainable living, the environment and eco-technology. We have to think about the kind of future in which we want to live and work. What social and economic systems can we envisage beyond the regular ones? Is there anything that we can learn from existing (non-western) experiments? I started with the Politics of Change project when I was in India visiting the Barefoot project, but it’s about so much more: the main focus is on communities that take positive change into their own hands. On people who decide to get up and act, who organise themselves spontaneously, from the bottom up, and who form networks to realise that change. The Brussels’ PoC workshop discussed gender and activism in the cultural field, examining the technical tools we use to document what we do and to spread the word. The participants in this open dialogue came from different fields; there were writers, filmmakers, anthropologists, journalists, visual artists, economists and researchers. Yes338http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : questionnaire Barefoot College - Indiahttp://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/poster.75.jpgThe research project ‘Politics of Change’ is a collective work in which artists, working women, activists and ecologists, economists, educators and anthropologists want to initiate collaborative dialogues to research ideas and solutions, which support decentralised structures, diversity and community development. The project involves not only public discussion, but an extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context. Drawing on a wide range of artistic and theoretical fields, the aim is to imagine new and sustainable relationships between humans, their environments and technologies. As artists, filmmakers, theorists and activists we have to enrich the public debate around sustainable living, the environment and eco-technology. We have to think about the kind of future in which we want to live and work. What social and economic systems can we envisage beyond the regular ones? Is there anything that we can learn from existing (non-western) experiments? I started with the Politics of Change project when I was in India, visiting the Barefoot project, but it’s about so much more: the main focus is on communities that take positive change into their own hands. On people who decide to get up and act, who organise themselves spontaneously, from the bottom up, and who form networks to realise that change. My interest in women solar engineers and the Mahila Samiti groups for women’s empowerment in Rajasthan comes out of a personal involvement that links art, women, empowerment, ecology, technology and social engagement. When I learned about the Barefoot College project (http://www.barefootcollege.org), I was struck by certain similarities between two practices that seem worlds apart at first sight: my own artistic work environment at Okno in Brussels and the practical trainings/workshops at Barefoot College in Rajasthan. Okno is an artist-run organisation for media, art and technology. Its focus lies on collective technological research projects. (http://okno.be/) Current projects use sustainable energies like solar/photovoltaic and wind energy to weave city communities, mesh networks and create public space art projects. Our decentralised DIY workshops are a platform for sharing knowledge to arrive at poignant results. Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, uses a similar structure to train solar engineers. The learning environment is open and decentralised. Knowledge is passed on from the bottom up, using a hands-on approach. The village community selects which women will be sent on a six-month solar engineering training, and every village family contributes a share in the remuneration of the engineers to set up and maintain the village solar system. When I went to Barefoot College for the first time in 2008, I discovered that the solar workshops are only a very small part in a much bigger story concerning the empowerment of the participating women. Diving into the matter, I quickly realised that a documentary film had to become the central issue of my project. This clip and the interviews with the women solar engineers of Barefoot College are from the film, Mahila, which can be seen here: http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/info.Yes338http://padma.okno.be/Vfbxkaqq/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Mahila-the movie (v.05)http://padma.okno.be/Vfbxkaqq/poster.75.jpgYes1391http://padma.okno.be/Vezexwks/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : Pokaran blueshttp://padma.okno.be/Vezexwks/poster.75.jpgYes193http://padma.okno.be/Vgdizfwj/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Mahila-the movie (v.00)http://padma.okno.be/Vgdizfwj/poster.75.jpgYes433http://padma.okno.be/Veueu99r/info2010-10-19weekly1.0Open Greens : edible forest rooftop garden - timelapse #1http://padma.okno.be/Veueu99r/poster.75.jpgWhy garden on rooftops in the city? Gardening on rooftops in ever-increasingly dense and sprawling cities is an original way to take back unused and sterile spaces like rooftops, patios and balconies and to transform them into livable spaces that are lush, productive and purifying. In addition to embellishing the urban landscape with food-producing gardens at the tops of buildings and producing fresh food, these new spaces for the community enable us to reduce the ecological footprint of the houses and institutions of which we are an integral part. Recovering and decontaminating water, cultivating organic food, composting organic waste as well as ?ltering and cooling down air are all part of a mindset to make our established landscape more sustainable. Therefore, in the current context of environmental degradation, over-consumption and junk food culture, taking care of ourselves and our environment enables us to take a step down the path to healthy cities and communities. Rooftop gardening means taking up an inspiring, ecological and productive activity, and developing new links with the food chain, the seasons, the environment and the community. This utopia’s vision is to turn the city into a garden and its inhabitants into gardeners. The 8th of march 2010 we started to setup a permaculture rooftopgarden on the 6th floor of a parking in the center of Brussels. It was a very cold day, -6° , cloudy and snowy. The next day we got some icy sun but all of us were freezing, working outside! At the end of the second day, the basic structure of the garden was in place. The evolution from a bare parkinglot rooftop to the basics of a rooftop garden can be seen in this timelapse movie. We will give regular updates of the edible forest rooftopgarden over the different seasons. We will also setup a database of all the trees, shrubs, plants, herbs, wild flowers, fruits and vegetables that found a spot in this rooftop garden. Following video covers the 2 setup days, with a framerate of 1 image/second. The length of the video is 49 minutes but it spans 2 days of work!Yes2930http://padma.okno.be/Vfx3reul/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Sita Devihttp://padma.okno.be/Vfx3reul/poster.75.jpgSita Devi is a singer. Together with four other young Rajasthani women, she started the solar cooker section of Barefoot College (http://www.barefootcollege.org). Some years ago she decided to start a 6 months training as solar panel engineer, and she continued her education with a focus on solar cookers. Today the women are responsible for the construction of the large parabolic dishes, covered with regular pieces of mirror. They tailor them precisely according to the blueprints of a German Engineer, Wolfgang Scheffler, with whom they still collaborate and improve the reflectors and machinery when needed. They organise their smithy, weld and solder the mechanical parts for the cookers out of recycled bicycle parts. Their apparatus are sold to organisations in India who use them in community kitchens. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/infoYes186http://padma.okno.be/Vfscq5l1/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Sargú Bhanwarhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfscq5l1/poster.75.jpgSargu Bhanwar is mother of five daughters. She is the coordinator for the handicraft section of Barefoot College (http://www.barefootcollege.org). She is a very sophisticated lady and in her work, she merges aesthetic insight with every day necessities. She has very specific ideas on (appropriate) technology. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/infoYes273http://padma.okno.be/Vfgke006/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Nazma Nigamhttp://padma.okno.be/Vfgke006/poster.75.jpgNajma Nigam is an illiterate rural women from Rajasthan. She was one of the first participants of Barefoot College's solar workshops, which have been held since the 1980s (http://www.barefootcollege.org). She teaches at the college and passes her knowledge to other rural women from Asia and Africa, who are students in the solar engineering programme. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/infoYes125http://padma.okno.be/Vdxjpmnn/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Mangi Devihttp://padma.okno.be/Vdxjpmnn/poster.75.jpgMangi Devi is one of the first women employees at Barefoot College (http://www.barefootcollege.org). From the beginning, she was responsible for the night schools - an important part of the Barefoot program - which she developed with a strong focus on education for young girls. She collaborated closely with Aruna Roy. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/infoYes150http://padma.okno.be/Vt3wunnq/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Magan Kanwarhttp://padma.okno.be/Vt3wunnq/poster.75.jpgThis is an interview with Magan Kanwar, one of the first women solar engineers of Barefoot College (http://www.barefootcollege.org). Before Magan started the workshops, she was living under the purdah system and never left her house. Now, she runs the solar energy training department at Barefoot College with her collegues Najma Nigam and Leela Devi. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/info Yes76http://padma.okno.be/Vtosvbmx/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Shamma Jogihttp://padma.okno.be/Vtosvbmx/poster.75.jpgShamma Jogi is a young women who decided to fight for a better life. In search of a job and an education, she arrived at Barefoot College (http://www.barefootcollege.org). Her husband, a truck driver, agrees with her decision to live on campus. He visits her there on his days off. Shamma raises her young son as a working woman. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/infoYes264http://padma.okno.be/Vh558svj/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Leela Devihttp://padma.okno.be/Vh558svj/poster.75.jpgLeela Devi is one of the first rural Rajasthani women to have enrolled in the solar workshops organised by Barefoot College (http://www.barefootcollege.org). In fact, she teaches other rural women from Asia and Africa, who are students at the college's solar engineering programme. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/infoYes78http://padma.okno.be/Vt3mw4if/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : Bombay blueshttp://padma.okno.be/Vt3mw4if/poster.75.jpgI’m in India, on a journey between two extreme poles of survival. Travelling here makes me think about time in a different way. City time contrasts to country time. Back home all those train rides, cities and people remain memories, moments suspended in time. Memories woven into a polyphonic snapshot of a fascinating country. The representation of the Other. This is the topic, the central piece of my existence as a woman, as an activist, as someone who is been constantly moving and crossing over different cultures in my own personal existence. All these images of the exotical, when Black people or Indian people are represented everytime as different … if we deconstruct this category we are the Others in ourselves. The idea of the Other implicates a definition about yourself. You must be clear in the definition about who you are to defend the Other as an Other. And I think that’s probably the big challenge: to make real new definitions about who are your Others. Yes238http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/info2011-02-01weekly1.0Mahila-the movie (v.10)http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/poster.75.jpgA film about grassroots activism, eco-technology and networks of women. A film about the Barefoot Solar Engineers. In MAHILA, the filmmaker steps between different worlds, going from West to East, from urban to rural surroundings. Her encounters with the experiences and observations of rural Indian women provoke reflection on the process of empowerment. In an artistic ethnography we see and hear how they are using education, technology and politics to redefine their destinies. As we trace the filmmaker’s memories we are taken into questions about story-telling. How are the women fighting to get their stories heard? Can the filmmaker tell other women’s stories?Yes1557http://padma.okno.be/Vdy1bgd8/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : women solar engineers part2http://padma.okno.be/Vdy1bgd8/poster.75.jpgIn the solar engineers trainings there’s a focus on women. The solar engineer project has demonstrated that bringing electricity to remote villages through solar energy could also be women's responsibility. (Men might easily run off with their new knowledge and start their own business in the city somewhere, whereas the women give it back to the community and first and for all to their family. They invest in a better education for their children.) Most of the solar engineers come from traditional and conservative societies and they have struggled to fight for their identity. That’s why this new confidence in the potential of women is so important. Initially, the women participated in the training to fulfill a basic need: getting a job and improving the financial position of the family. The training was first regarded with suspicion, but as the results became visible, it earned the trust of rural communities. Especially the wider consequences are groundbreaking: the women gain self-respect and have secured a stronger position in the family structures. These rural women have become symbols of a new partnership within the community and are often used as examples to propagate and elevate women’s status. In a second phase the participating women become teachers and pass their knowledge to other (also foreign) women. In this video we see a group of African women (from 8 different countries) following a six month workshop in Rajasthan. For most of them it was the first time that they left their home village and their family to go and live in another country, confronted with another culture. Yes150http://padma.okno.be/Vfc9trp4/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : women solar engineers part1http://padma.okno.be/Vfc9trp4/poster.75.jpgAt Barefoot College, ordinary men and women -whatever their qualifications- can learn about solar energy. Roles have to be flexible: the teacher can be the learner and the learner can be the teacher. The whole environment is one of creative learning, demystifying technology and unlearning through processes that are natural, non violent and respectful. At present time, 32 Buthanese girls and 6 Mauretanian women follow a 6 months training to become a solar engineer in their home villages. From start on, the decision to step into the solar project is community-based. The home-village (mostly remote villages without electricity) selects and delegates its future women engineers for a 6 months training at Barefoot College in Rajasthan. In a community contract, every village family engages itself to pay its share in the remuneration of the engineers to set up and maintain the village solar system at their return home.The future engineers learn the necessary skills to repair inverters and charge the controllers for the solar units they will look after. Every family of the remote village communities pays a small sum for the equipment and the services of the solar engineers. As such, every member of the community takes his responsability in this ecological project of sustainable energy. In the solar engineer training productivity results from collective work. The learning environment is open and decentralised and knowledge is passed on in a bottom-up and hands-on way. The students are taught by 3 Indian women, pioneers from the solar workshop section. Students and teachers don't speak each other languages. They communicate by sign- and body language, pointing to the colors of their sarees to indicate the colors of the necessary resistors and capacitors for building the electrical circuits.Yes250http://padma.okno.be/Vugv503g/info2010-05-26weekly1.0city honeybees - birth of a honeybeehttp://padma.okno.be/Vugv503g/poster.75.jpgSnapshot of the birth of 2 bees in the so-on hive. Most of the cells are closed and contain pupa’s to be born soon. Open cells contain pollen and honey to feed the larvae. The Buckfast bee is popular among beekeepers and is available from bee breeders in several parts of the world. Most of their qualities are very favorable. They are extremely gentle. Their main drawback is that they are very liberal in their application of propolis to inner surfaces of their hives, thus acting to defeat one of the main purposes of the modern beehive — that combs should be easily removable for inspection.Yes151http://padma.okno.be/Ve2gjcbj/info2010-05-26weekly1.0city honeybees - pollen harvesthttp://padma.okno.be/Ve2gjcbj/poster.75.jpgHoneybees returning to the hive with pollen on their hind legs.. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae.Yes217http://padma.okno.be/Veeeody5/info2010-05-26weekly1.0city honeybees - end of summerhttp://padma.okno.be/Veeeody5/poster.75.jpgAs the honey-super of the hive was placed without all frames, the bees started to build their own comb-wax constructions for storing the honey. The three parts, fixed with propolis to the cover of the hive, were build over a period of 48 hours. The first honey of this unconventional organised super was harvested beginning of july, and gave us ± 3kgs of pure gold! The brood comb is the beeswax structure of cells where the queen bee lays eggs. It is the part of the beehive where a new brood is raised by the colony. During the summer a good queen may lay 1500-2000 eggs per day, which results in 1500-2000 bees hatching after the three week development period. The brood comb is usually found in the lower part of the beehive while the honey comb may surround the brood area and is found exclusively in the honey supers. When a queen does not have enough brood comb to lay eggs due to congestion from pollen or honey, the bee colony may be more prone to swarm.Yes843http://padma.okno.be/Vt44ko5k/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : solarcooker girls cooperativehttp://padma.okno.be/Vt44ko5k/poster.75.jpgEco-feminists want to redefine how societies look at productivity and activity of both women and nature. 'Diverse women for diversity' promotes a global women's campaign on bio-diversity and cultural diversity, echoing women's voices from the local and grassroots level to global fora and international negotiations. In Tilonia, a small village in the Rajasthani desert, a group of illiterate women started a cooperative to build solar cookers. Out of recycled materials, they construct little by little huge parabolic devices that work with the energy of the sun. The use of technologies such as solar energy empowers women to stay 'off the grid', a statement that symbolises their independence from dominant structures. The women work with appropriate technology that is tailor made for their specific community and takes into consideration the environmental, cultural, social and economic characteristics of that community. This technology requires fewer resources and is easier to maintain. It has a lower overall cost and a smaller impact on the environment than high technology, and it prefers labor-intensive solutions over capital-intensive ones. The women workers organise themselves and explore the assets of nature and distributed green power. As working women, they claim their rights in the community and work towards a radical shift in policy and practice.Yes523http://padma.okno.be/Vs66onht/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Rose Akumuhttp://padma.okno.be/Vs66onht/poster.75.jpgRose Akumu is a rural woman from Uganda, who came to Barefoot College (http://www.barefootcollege.org) for a six-month workshop in solar engineering. It's her first trip away from her African village. After the workshop, she will return home and install solar panels on the rooftops of her village to bring electricity to the families of her community. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/infoYes267http://padma.okno.be/Vt332bqm/info2010-10-20weekly1.0Open Greens : navdanya seedbankhttp://padma.okno.be/Vt332bqm/poster.75.jpgBuji Negi is responsible for the seedbank at Navdanya, the ecological farm of vandan Shiva. He helps the farmers to collect and save seeds in a good way, and he set up an interchange structure betwwen farmers of different regions to remain the control over their own seeds. In India, the Monsanto intoxicated seeds are a huge problem, and the organisation of Vandana Shiva is sinds a long time an active activist against all forms of biopiracy and genetically manipulated seeds. Their aim is to unify the farmers to make them stronger, and to keep their rights in their own hands.Yes706http://padma.okno.be/Vg7umx1w/info2010-10-20weekly1.0Open Greens : navdanya farmwalkhttp://padma.okno.be/Vg7umx1w/poster.75.jpgA walk on the farmland of Navdanya, the ecological, biological, hand-son, theoretical, meditationand yoga-farm of Vandan Shiva.Yes808http://padma.okno.be/Vtoysyru/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Politics of Change : interview with Rami Devihttp://padma.okno.be/Vtoysyru/poster.75.jpgRami Devi is an activist for women'd empowerment. She is the field coordinator for several women's groups in Rajasthan. She organises monthly meetings on a regional level, and helps village women solve recurrant family and community problems during the weekly village meetings. This interview was done as part of the Politics of Change (PoC) project. For more on PoC, see http://padma.okno.be/Vu1bke9x/info For the finished film 'Mahila', see http://padma.okno.be/Vsaz4jj6/infoYes379http://padma.okno.be/Vhm6jxoh/info2010-05-26weekly1.0Open Greens : interview with Vandana Shivahttp://padma.okno.be/Vhm6jxoh/poster.75.jpgThe video is a summary of an interview conducted with Vandana Shiva during the workshop and seminar ‘The Future of Food’ on the Navdanya-farm in Dehradun, India - early october 2008. Navdanya is a project started by Vandana Shiva. The organisation provides direction and support to environmental activism. Navdanya is actively involved in the protection of indigenous knowledge and culture. It spreads out as a growing network of students and teachers, creating awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering. It defends people's knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalisation. Diverse Women for Diversity is a specific division of Navdanya that provides women with a common international platform to air their views. It supports women's grassroots movements by uniting their voice from the local level to global fora and international negotiations. Diverse Women for Diversity conducts a non-violent resistance and opposition to globalisation, emergency of genetic engineering and patents on life forms. Navdanya organises on a regular basis workshops, seminars and hands-on actions. Informal communities for learning versus formal education : what can we learn from it? At the Navdanya events we find a colourful mix of participants : experts, students, teachers, DIY-ers and workers, activists and artists. Together they create a horizontal network that expands organically in a self-organising way. What about urban vs. rural agriculture? Urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in a town or city. It is mostly applied in reduced spaces as terraces and balconies. The farming practice is mostly organic and is mainly directed to domestic consumption. Urban agriculture promotes energy-saving local food production and is therefore considered as a sustainable practice.Yes424