If you are not familiar with the term 'odious debt' then I would recommend for you to watch the Debtocracy documentary film. The first part of the film gives a general introduction to the credit-driven global economy and the accumulation of Greek debt....

Discussions about setting up an alternative to Helsinki WDC are going on at the moment... If you want to participate in the discussions, please drop an email to juhuu ((at)) juhuu.nu.(see previous discussion about Helsinki WDC here)UPDATE ON SEPT 14: So far...

(This posting continues the discussion related to my Helsinki WDC critique last week).Helsingin Sanomat newspaper featured Helsinki WDC critique as their main story in the culture section yesterday (unfortunately you need to be a registered subscriber to...

When Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 announced its theme to be 'Open Helsinki - embedding design in life', my first reaction was - excitement! Choosing openness as a theme seemed like a bold move from the Helsinki WDC organisers - a commitment to try out...

One of the guests of both Pixelache and Mal au Pixel festivals this spring was Lieven Standaert, one of the members of Timelab (Ghent). In our festivals he presented Timelab's Mini-CNC Kit project but he is also working on an ambitious project called...

Piksel11November 17-20 2011Bergen, Norway\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organized in Bergen,...

Pixelache Helsinki and many other organisations from Finland participated in this year's DMY MakerLab in Berlin. DMY Berlin had a special Finland country focus this time in anticipation of the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 year. Here are some glimpses...

Some discussions that started in LabtoLab event in Nantes are continuing in Paris, in the 6th edition of Mal au Pixel festival.The Altlabs event took place this afternoon, featuring presentations by many independent labs: media labs, hacklabs, fab labs,...

During the past couple of days we had a chance to visit the LabtoLab meeting in Nantes, France. This meeting was an opportunity for people running media labs to exchange experiences, to plan collaborations and to discuss about methods and areas for common...

At the Low2No School of Activism anyone can learn how to create dozens of temporary restaurants for a night, how to mainstream urban gardening with simple boxes, how to build your own communal house, how to make your own bike-lane where you think there...

Photo: Tempelhof Airport, venue for DMY Berlin 2011Pixelache Helsinki will participate in this year's DMY Maker Lab (1-5 June 2011) in Berlin. We will present two projects which were featured at this year's festival: OHANDA open hardware initiative and...

(info in Finnish below)>> Facebook event page hereNOTE: The time for the event is Wednesday 11.5 @ 4 pm! (not Tuesday as previously announced)Open lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Tuesday 10.5 @ 4pm, in Seminar room 3(follow the signs), Kaikukatu...