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Seed bombs (originally named seed balls) were an ancient way to sow crops in dense vegetation or in land that is difficult to reach using crop seeds, clay and soil/compost formed into small balls. They were reintroduced within the last century by the Japanese organic farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka. Since then they have been vastly used as a tool for guerilla gardening all over the world. The aim of guerrilla gardening is forestation, re-vegetation of desertified lands, gardening in appartments and skyscrapers in order to rapidly seed restricted or private areas and convert...

In the autumn 2012, Pixelache sent out a call for programme planner for the next edition of our festival in Helsinki (16-19.5.2013). Responding in a collaborative fashion to the call on the theme "Facing North - Facing South, the Bricolabs network was the happy selected. Bricolabs is a fluid network created in 2006 to investigate - from a critical and creative perspective - the loop of free/libre/open content, software and hardware for community applications. Bricolabs promotes open debate and critical making on such themes, between people with diverse backgrounds, in areas of expertise...

Following last year's experiment in collective decision-making related to Pixelache Festival keynote speaker, we continue again this year opening the process a bit wider. Next year's festival has the Facing North - Facing South theme, and several focuses in around-the-year Pixelversity programme, for example 'Waste/d', 'Experience & Knowledge-sharing', 'Techno-ecologies'.. Nominations for keynote speakers were asked from Pixelache's association membership, expert board, network and Estonian friends-collaborators of the past year. There is currently a range of nominations from differnt...

metaFestival Technologies is an open source development project. Instead of computer code, it specializes in instruction-based code that describes new forms of human practice or behavior. The code is defined by text and illustrations, and packaged like programs, giving everyone the possibility to use them, and develop new versions of their own. The workshop, held on Thursday 16thMayfrom 1-5 pmas part of the programme of Pixelache Festival 2013, will first familiarize the participants with the idea of behavioral coding. After that, we will together develop prototypes, and test them in the...