During this year’s edition of the Pixelache Festival Owen and Oliver conducted a curious workshop. It combined two seemingly disconnected activities: Making DIY Facecream and Making Collective Decisions. Within the framework of Convivial Mechanics this...

Interview with Tuuli Malla and Lauri Jäntti, the artists behind Urban Hitchhiking, a projects between contemporary art and urban activism, present at the festival in the form of a free workshop day 24.9 starting from Sauna building at 14:30. Why...

Interview with Jana Pejoska-Laajola and Agnieszka Pokrywka, coordinating a participatory co-design session on Culture Coding at Oranssi Conference Room, 22 September at 15.30. Please tell us how you conceived this project? What is the motivation behind...

HELSINKI-BASED ARTISTS EGLE ODDO AND MARI KESKI-KORSU SELECTED TO TRIENNAL AGRIKULTURA, SWEDEN IN SUMMER 2017 Artists Egle Oddo and Mari Keski-Korsu participate to Triennal Agrikultura with their artworks: Landscape of Resistance, and Calling for the...

Finnish Museum Association organized Creative Museum workshop in Helsinki on 2nd of June, 2017. The workshop functioned as a testing ground for originally French event concept called Museomix. The basic idea behind the event is to mix all kinds of creators...

LOCAL & DECENTRALISED Pixelache Festival happens in and around Oranssi’s Valvomo building, in Suvilahti cultural complex Helsinki, 22nd-24th September 2017. The festival activities aim to reflect on the decentralisation of power by collectively...

These title statements were proposed by Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen in the second of two gatherings about Pixelache member motivations and values in mid-April 2017. We were looking for answers. I had offered to facilitate.* This post is a reflection on the...

The subtle changes happening over the course of long periods of time can be understood via persistent work, trial and error, and through broad observation and thought combining various disciplines. Forest-Climate-Time gives the floor to the explorers of...

Tartu University Centre for the Information Society and UT IdeaLab invite you to join in a search for solutions to various post-truth problems during a 24h hacking session, focusing on data journalism and innovation of digital media infrastructure. Since...

We've had a few questions about what we intend with this year's Empathy as Resistance project, so we're writing this post in an attempt to clarify matters. Structure: Empathy as Resistance will meet 4 or 5 times, roughly every two months, throughout 2017....