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...

Hitaasti tapahtuvaa muutosta on mahdollista ymmärtää pitkäjännitteisen työn, yrityksen ja erehdyksen kautta; monitieteisesti ja avarasti maailmaa tarkkaillen ja ajatellen. Metsä-Ilmasto-Aika antaa puheenvuoron ilmaston, elämän ja ajan tutkailijoille, jotka...

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....