Relearn curved. First curl: Rotterdam/Varia

For the Rotterdam control point on the Relearn curve, we propose to together attend to a subject zone (*) where different digital network practices intersect. This subject zone can morph into multiple directions throughout the session. Our specific interest is in how publishing formats (**) operate with/on/through this zone.

* There are many questions in the air when we start to speak about digital infrastructures, hosters, servers, services, networks and their technical realities. Instead of picking one and diving deeper, we thought it would be more interesting to present a range and explore different vocabularies, protocols, technologies, infrastructures. We invite you to join Relearn to stretch this zone, starting from or moving towards:

• ▝   digital interdependencies
• ▘   affective infrastructures
• ▝   homebrew networks
• ▗   networked entanglements
• ▖   feminist servers
• ▖   federated networks
• ▝   and-and-networks
• ▚   digital autonomy
• ▖   transitional infrastructures
• ▞   digital selves-organisations
• ▖   so-and-sovereignty networks
• ▝   out-of-the-cloud thinking
• ▚   …

** We’re curious about learning through publishing formats. The different publishing formats serve as an invitation to embed ourselves within the subject zone of digital networks. How can these formats be our morphable lenses, that we use to relearn digital networks? Starting from or moving towards:

• ▝   multiple readers
• ▖   cross-readings created through algorithms
• ▞   logbooks
• ▝   syllabi
• ▚   documentation
• ▖   annotations
• ▝   cookbooks
• ▖   tutorials
• ▚   README
• ▖   bug reports
• ▗   link dumps
• ▝   scores
• ▖   …

Many sub-trajectories can emerge from here during the days, without the need of taking the same path or agreeing about vocabularies or geometries altogether.

+ info: http://relearn.be/2019/
+: http://varia.zone/