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    Interoperable play

    December 14, 2012 interface, LGRU, Networked graphics, News, play, standard, toy

    Forward compatible toys: The Free Universal Construction Kit

    ← Tools for a read-write world II How to communicate libre graphics? →
    ← Design practice, Free Software and feminisms. Fed by and feeding into various activities, networks and collaborations ↓ →

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    Links

  • Potential Estate The most public secret society inspiring new folk rhymes
  • Yi Liang
  • videomagazijn
  • Copy Cult
  • You are here / Vous êtes ici The online guide to Seda-think
  • Olia Lialina
  • GRAPA A journey to the promised land of FLOS publishing
  • Libre Graphics Meeting
  • rmozone Robert Ochshorn
  • Automatist
  • Memory of the World The world’s documentary heritage belongs to all
  • Foam
  • aaaaarg
  • Information Observatory
  • Rotor
  • Scumgrrrls
  • textzi.net
  • mathieu-g Mathieu Gabiot: Designer Industriel
  • Open Font Library
  • Le Syndicat des Robots
  • Amateur Archivist
  • 404: School Not Found
  • WVW
  • Myriam Cea
  • OSP-BLOG Open Source Publishing – Graphic Design Caravan
  • Hackerspace Brussels
  • Matthew Fuller
  • Radio Panik 105.4 fm
  • Domainepublic
  • Trashwiki
  • Speculoos Centre de spécialités graphiques
  • – o r a m a
  • Open Source Video
  • Foomarx Reinventing Lorum Ipsum
  • Sabine Voglaire, Harrisson, Prof Papiko
  • Martha Rosler Library
  • <stdin>
  • calligraffiti
  • F.A.T.
  • BxLUG
  • Consentsus A critical feminist theory of consent
  • Archive Cultures
  • El museo del autor
  • b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n
  • SICV Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism
  • Constant Association for Art and Media
  • Waend A platform for subjective and collaborative spatial publication
  • LAFKON Publishing
  • artlibre.org
  • Towards
  • De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research
  • Jeanne van Heeswijk
  • Artwarez Cornelia Solfrank
  • Constant Verlag A repository of texts from the depth of the Constant Archives
  • a.pass
  • Feral Trade Trading goods along social networks since 2003
  • Girls of the internet museum
  • Femmes et logiciels libres
  • Permutations
  • Manufactura Independente
  • http://l-o-c-a-l-h-o-s-t.com/
  • Ludivine Loiseau
  • Revealing Errors We reveal errors that reveal technologies, learning how they affect our lives.
  • Missdata
  • Genderchangers
  • Rear Window
  • Fudge The Facts
  • Medialab Prado Madrid
  • OSP Open Source Publishing
  • +H+
  • Urban(e)(istiques) Anomalie(ën)(s) Bru(x)(ss)el(le)(s) through the eyes of Peter Westenberg
  • Adashboard
  • Dragan Espenschied
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    • WhatsApp alternatives 31.10.2025
      In many situations, instant messaging services are very useful. Many groups recognise this and use them extensively. If someone doesn't reply, a short message — on the same platform — ensures that important communication is not forgotten. How convenient! Not to mention that group messages and individual communications are all in the same application. But […]
    • PARSE #21: Ecologies of dissemination 29.10.2025
      Constant has the pleasure to announce the launch of the Issue #21 of PARSE Journal: Ecologies of dissemination by Femke Snelting and Eva Weinmayr. Our colleague Elodie Mugrefya has been part of the advisory board supporting this project. This issue of PARSE Journal starts from the tangled and mesmerising fabric of collective artistic practice, particularly […]
    • Confusing coding club pt.6: Simmering Connections - Culinary Kinship in Action 29.10.2025
      Join us for another Confusing coding club where we introduce slow-simmered Cantonese herbal soup traditions through a shared commitment to speculative, intersectional, and embodied technologies of care. In this hands-on session, soup-making becomes both a medium and a method, which is a living technology that carries kinship, memory, metabolic and cultural knowledge. We will engage […]
    • Constant_V: Hormonobotanik.wiki 27.10.2025
      Launch event: Thursday 27-11-2025 18:00 → 21:00 Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes, initiated by Flo*Souad Benaddi in 2019. This long-term artistic research, initially begun out of necessity, has taken the form of visual installations as well as textile objects and publications, which have […]
    • Tree times workshop 22.10.2025
      Thursday 30th of October from 18:00 to 21:00 Anne-Laure Buisson, Gijs de Heij, and An Mertens welcome you to a three-hour workshop around the Tree Times installation. One of the installation's components is the diaries of the three Scots pines. You can request fragments via text message. Each fragment consists of two parts: an automatically […]
    • Constant_V: Tree Times 23.09.2025
      Opening: Tuesday 07 - 10 - 2025 18:00 → 21:00 Workshop: Thursday 30 – 10 – 2025 18:00 → 21:00 When does a tree's sap start flowing, when do trees get to work in the morning, when does their trunk grow most? During one year, the artists of the Anaïs Berck collective measured the movements […]
    • There's an elephant in the room, episode 3 12.09.2025
      "Dear organiser, worker in a public institution, tutor, student, activist, We know you're fed up. So are we. That's why we decided to write you this letter: as we are facing down another September-September still stuck with everyday digital infrastructures provided by companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI and HP that are, as we […]
    • Constant @ Food for thoughts — The Cookery 2025, iMAL 09.09.2025
      In the framework of the 2025 edition of iMAL's festival, The Cookery, our colleague Imane will participate to a round table on the topic of intersectionality in tech. The aim of this panel is to bring together voices that are thinking about technology from between the 'margins', while navigating digital dependencies, and fostering networks, communities […]
    • Vertical Stories workshop 08.09.2025
      In the framework of the installation Vertical Stories by Alexandre Mulongo Finkelstein and Livia Cahn in the window of Constant, the artists will animate an informal and speculative get together. It will be a collective reflection on what the underground holds. We're calling on neighbors with stories, local historians, amateur archaeologist, geologists, and sand enthusiasts […]
    • 240 million computers discarded: what if we adopted Linux? 21.08.2025
      14 October will mark the end of support for Windows 10, an operating system that is still used on many computers around the world. As a result, only the most recent computers will be compatible with the new version of Microsoft's OS, effectively rendering many still-functional computers obsolete... - a disposal that would amount to […]