Water Creative Sessions -- Exposing The Invisible (Investigation) & Hack₂O (Hacktivism)

Work In Pogress: Proposal of activities for Offdem 2024

This Offdem Oxozone proposal is about Water & Investigation & Hacktivism.

• Exposing The Invisible engages with different techniques, tools and methods along with the individual practices of those working at the new frontiers of investigation.
  • Exposing the Invisible is a project of Tactical Tech
• Hack2O is a project launched by petites singularités, following Hack 2 Eaux by Kaouenn Noz Biohackerspace in 2021.

informal meeting on Thursday evenings in Brussels (if you want to join us)

Friday and Saturday

Creative Water Investigations Working-space: “It’s Not Water Under the Bridge”

No other substance is as universally vital to living creatures on the planet as much as water. Yet for the most part, there are those who do not manage this responsibly or take its vitality for granted.

Join us to a working space where we collectively bring in and explore topics of water investigations such as access to water, inequality in water allotment, water pollution, greenwashing and more.

This will be a space where people can share knowledge and exchange ideas of how to collaborate and investigate such topics using conventional and unconventional approaches and methods, how to engage affected communities and other groups, as well as think of creative ways of storytelling and spreading investigation findings to reach a wider audience.

Friday 2 February, afternoon

Somewhere in Brussels

Work with progress session: 3-4 hours from 14:00 CET

• Skills & knowledge share sessions

• Finding commons topics to investigate

• Registration needed - register via the OFFDEM forum or email to Exposing The Invisible

  • eti@tacticaltech.org (GPG Key fingerprint: BD30 C622 D030 FCF1 38EC C26D DD04 627E 1411 0C02)

• no limit on the number of participants - we are waiting for you to signal your interest!

Saturday 3rd, afternoon

• 2 hour meeting: Creative Water Investigations Room In OFFDEM venue (please see OFFDEM program for details: O₄FFDEM Programme - OFFDEM)

• No registration process, large building with small rooms, people join the sessions they are interested in (there is a general meeting with everyone at the start of day where the program is announced)
• We are bringing to this session what was done on 1-2 February
• There is a restitution process at the end of the day where each session shares notes from their day.
• A creative session on exploring and investigating water issues ,and how to investigate and engage communities in investigations.
• Practice some skills if required, but not a training session
• A moment where to find new collaborations and ask questions or share ideas you are curious to explore
• Notes taking

Sunday

We’d like to set about a session “Hackvists Playthrough & Speedrun Contributions” (90min) on Sunday (a day after the 2-day creative room with Exposing the Invisible). In OFFDEM venue

What We Will Do

• list and document the ways and means of Access to Information Act in various regions around the world − Greater transparency can help us address the water issues. We have already started here (EU, Latin America and the Caribbean).

  • See also
    • What status should water have in deploying digital projects?
    • Zine all about how ICT climate politics look productively different if we focus less on green consumer behaviours and more on opposing infrastructure expansions.
    • Climate change induced water stress and future semiconductor supply chain risk

• Add pins to this map to make water hacktivist groups visible

• Discuss the next meeting times and places (and the offline and online arrangements for these meetings), and put all this in writing collectively.

About Hack2O

Hack2O is a free, open-source web platform that provides community-driven and collaborative services to groups and locations working on water and justice issues. It features a mapped inventory of grassroots initiatives and documentation pages related to the civic struggle for water.

What we carry on:

• Visibility for local actions taken by those most affected, as well as connections between different groups and activities: This is the mapping feature.
• Facilitation of meetings and discussions between individuals and communities worldwide: This is the multilingual forum service.
• Documentation space, open to anyone interested, to make the knowledge, techniques, strategies, and methods of various local communities accessible and to maintain them as a commons: This is the wiki.