hackathon: Fablab Amersfoort - Let's make a pet bottle filament maker

There's movies on the net that show people making filament from PET-bottles.
Let's try that too!
(Image from Printables)

hackathon: Diana - Develop a small tempeh maker for your kitchen

After having tried to build a tempeh maker from an open design, I decided to start over from scratch. My goal is to make an automatic tempeh maker for one or two pieces of tempeh.
We will make the housing, electronics and control software.
You might go home with your own tempeh maker!

workshop: Harmen G. Zijp - Public Tech Skill Tree

In this hands-on workshop on digital autonomy you'll find out how to become less dependent on the solutions Big Tech has to offer. Bring your devices and start using the Public Tech Skill Tree, step by step, to visualize your skill progress, identify skill gaps and get inspired to try new things.

other: Harmen G. Zijp - Unprepping: keeping a balance between indifference and panic by building a future for better or worse

Watching the news can be unnerving these days. Climate change and other crises loom large and our political system seems woefully inadequate to handle them. Staying passive is not an option but acting is difficult as well. After all, what difference can one person make? It can be hard to avoid the pitfalls of futile panic streaks or a cynical retreat. In this session I want to explore what can be done to be prepared with out ending up in full camouflage behind a wall of canned beans. Some actions will also prepare us for an optimistic future. Let's identify them and start work.

other: Joris Van Dorpe - What kind of biolab does De WAR want?

Now that the realization of the new citizen science biolab comes closer, we can rediscuss for which applications we would like to use it for. It might inspire us all to make it functional sooner.

lecture: Initiatiefgroep Gelote Burgerraad - Proceedings of the Citizens's Assembly

This year, the first Citizens' Assembly convened in Amersfoort. A group of 54 citizens, selected by lot, came together to discuss on the topic of waste reduction. How does the Citizens' Assembly work, what came out of it and what has to be changed for the next round?

hackathon: Joris Van Dorpe - Biolab construction

Come and join the construction of your own citizen science biolab!

In this hackathon we will continue to build the biolab to make it functional as soon as soon as possible and in line with the ethical charter in our website.

hackathon: Stefan Lehner - Sandbattery

Let's build a simple but working sand battery. With the sun collectors on our roof we try to heat up sand up to 800 degrees. The sand container is very wel isolated. With the heat energy we can heat water when demanded or trough a generating system again electric energy.

lecture: Edwin Dertien - Lumi

lecture (and demonstration) on robotics and theatre, the story behind 'climate adaptive smart living tiny house Lumi'

workshop: Maranke Spoor - Herbal tea tour

Permaculture teacher Maranke Spoor will show you around the garden at the WAR. You will meet a series of herbal tea plants, wich you will get to know using 3 different languages, English, Latin (the botanical name) and Dutch.

hackathon: OpenToko - help build a self organising workshop series

In the old days we had the open toko workshops, where one could learn anything together with others.
They stopped because nobody had time to organise them.
In this hackathon we will make them self organising. If someone adds a topic they want to learn about, someone else say they know something about it, a third person has a space to offer, then a date picker starts and the workshop is organised.
We will connect some open tools to build the system.

hackathon: Lucas Brouns - A foodscape navigation poster with patterns and questions

Let's draw a poster about getting food in ecologically sound ways, a poster consisting of patterns and questions. Please follow this weblink for my introducing words. English and Dutch language can both be used in this hackaton. You can participate for a part of the hackaton.

Ik wil graag een poster tekenen die bestaat uit patronen en vragen met betrekking tot keuzes in het voedsellandschap. Via deze weblink kan je al mijn introductie lezen. Engelse en Nederlandse taal kan simultaan tijdens het werken. Je kan ook een deel van de hackaton meedoen.

other: Maranke Spoor - Open evening The WAR library

Iedere Donderdagavond tussen 18 & 21 komen we bij elkaar om samen te lezen. We starten met een potluckdiner, dat betekent gewoon dat iedereen wat lekkers mee neemt zodat we de avond kunnen beginnen met gezellig samen eten. Graag modulair, zo meng ik bijvoorbeeld mijn lokale dierlijkheden niet door andere dingen en meng ik ook geen alcohol, gluten of noten door iets dat ik maak, en mocht ik eens iets willen maken waarin nootjes o.i.d. ingrediënt zijn dan zet of zeg ik het er gewoon even bij. Zo zijn diëten geen probleem, kunnen we elkaar inspireren & diversiteit vieren! https://permacultuuronderwijs.nl/transitiebieb/

hackathon: Maranke Spoor - Connection with people with a different worldview

In times of change commons projects can have an important role in creating a new culture, one thats creating more life. For that we need open minded people not afraid to step outside of their own " believe systems" wich can be challenging.

I'm a pascfist, a lover of the science of different cultures, and would like to talk to you about how to maintain or make a connection with people with a different worldview, and keep our minds open so change getts every chance it needs to happen.

lecture: Sam Nemeth - Conversational Prototyping / Synthetic Ethnography for LLM's

Updat on the project Conversational prototyping that experiments with hardware and Large language Models. Als o: Synthetic Ethnography: how to analyse the bekaviour of Large Language Models.

Nicole Esteje - Democratie en de Trias Politica: rotsvaste kern of kernprobleem?

Nederland is een democratische rechtsstaat, gefundeerd op de Trias Politica: de scheiding der machten. Al eeuwenlang een rotsvast fundament. Want zonder machtenscheiding, geen democratische rechtsstaat, toch? Een oefening in vrij denken over een vastgelopen principe.

hackathon: Nicole Esteje - Can Solid-Pods save our democracy?

More than three decades ago Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. It was to be a tool to empower humanity, instead it played a part in eroding it. 35-years on he is offering us a way out. Can his new invention, Solid Pods, deliver on the promise of an internet that is ‘trustworthy and hyper-personal’? In this hackaton we investigate the status of Solid Pods and explore its use-readiness. Can Solid-Pods hyper-personalize our democracy? The overall idea: instead of general elections once every 4 years can we have a yearly recurring process by voting on your birthday? The question: Can Solid Pods be a tool to make that happen?
Will you join us on this investigative journey?
Curious about Solid Pods? Read about Solid Project here and here

workshop: Nicole Esteje - Symbiocracy

What’s in a name? A lot. Words determine our view of the world we live in, or better: the world we share. A world in which democracy is in great jeopardy. We urgently need to re-assess the basic principles underlying our democratic society. Words are our tools to make the connection between what is and what needs to be(-come), tools to connect with each other. In this workshop I will share my hopes for strenghtening democracy. One of them being a new dictionary. I hope you will come and share your words too.
Note: this workshop will take place 2 times, one in Dutch and one in English.

Librarian of the WAR Library - The starfish and the spider

Looking at the WAR and other organisations using the book the starfish and the spider as starting point

hackathon: Luchtkwaliteit in Beeld (Margaret, Jordy, Ruud & Els) - Wij sleutelen verder aan de Pollution Painters: Analoog & Digital

Pollution Painting is een vorm van ‘light-painting’ om fijnstof zichtbaar, bespreekbaar, en voelbaar te maken. Wij demonstreren de twee methoden en gaan daarna in gesprek over toepassingen, impact, en de uitdagingen van hardware/software CS projecten.

Met de Analoge Painter maak je lange-sluitertijd-foto’s door een LED-lichtstok te verbinden met een luchtkwaliteitssensor, en de LEDs te laten knipperen op basis van de hoeveelheid gemeten fijnstof.
Met de Digitale Painter is de sensor direct verbonden met de camera, die een digitale foto-overlay maakt met een stippenpatroon van de hoeveelheid fijnstof, waardoor je snel kunt werken onder verschillende (licht) omstandigheden.

workshop: Bart Veldhuizen - The Bots are Here! Automate Anything with n8n

Pull data from a sensor, add it to a spreadsheet, generate a graph and post it on Mastodon? Or receive a signal from your forum, send a customized postcard and inform you via chat?

Stop doing repetitive work and learn how to set up powerful automations using n8n, a 'no code' workflow automation platform that you can self-host.

I work for n8n and in this workshop I'll teach you everything you need to build your own workflows. Bring your laptop!

lecture: Maria van Maanen - Making your own seed bank

"We would like to have a workshop that teaches people how to save seeds from their own garden, making your own seed bank." was a question from de War.
Gardener Maria van Maanen, from CSA de Wilde Peen knows all about growing crops for food and collects some of the seeds herself, but not all.Which food crops are easy to save seeds from for the next growing season. And why are some crops not so easy to multiply from seeds? 

other: brandalism_nl - reclaim public spaces

Government is renting out public space to advertisers
This is our space we can reclaim it with simple tools and some bravoure. We have been doing this for 5 years, I want to show you how easy it is and you can practise on a click-frame, we also offer the opportunity to make your own "advertisement" that we will place in a public location.

workshop: Suze Stuurman - Hoe begin ik een moeilijk gesprek? Voordelen en valkuilen van "Geweldloze communicatie"

Mensen met een groot maatschappelijk engagement hebben vaak sterke sociale normen en waarden. De praktijk van het zelf-organiseren kan echter nogal eens wrijving met zich meebrengen.

Dit is een workshop waarin ik Marshall Rosenbergs communicatiemodel "Nonviolent Communication" introduceer en evalueer op bruikbaarheid voor de context van het betrokken sociaal-maatschappelijke leven, en activistisch burgerschap.

De workshop bevat een presentatie, waarna we doorgaan met een oefening in paren.

Stefan Lehner - Building with plastic bottles

We'll be building a bridge and a building using plastic bottles. To do this, we'll need to analyze the static rules of bridges and buildings, as well as the strengths of the bottles, to ensure the forces are distributed evenly.

workshop: Ger Hanssen - How to build a cube from matches without glue

We are going to learn how to build a cube from matches only, without using glue. A lot of patience and a steady hand come in handy.

other: Hans Acker - Sky cooling paint

Can we reverse global warming with simple and known techniques? Youtuber NightHawkinLight has reverse engineered a pigment that is able to radiate the earths warmth back to space when the sky is clear and holds no clouds. This technique can cool the air 1 to 3 degrees below ambient air temperatures!

In this session I propose to watch this video (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KDRnEm-B3AI) together and brainstorm afterwards how to build our own low-tech air cooler.

There are still a few challenges: How to make a ecologic (bio-friendly) binder for the pigment that is waterproof, UV resistant, durable, binds preferably to metals like aluminum. Perhaps we can also brainstorm on how to make this pigment suitable for textiles? Chemists, tinkerers, makers, hackers, paint makers unite on the quest of making the planet cool again ;-)

other: Lunch

Lunch

other: Breakfast

Breakfast

other: Jadebrew & Innerlijk Beheer - spelendhelen.nl

Mentale trauma's maken het ingewikkeld om in bepaalde situaties helder te denken en goed te functioneren. Maar juist dat maakt het vinden van adequate psychiatrische hulp moeilijk. Spelend helen wil een open source spel maken waarmee de mechanismes van een trauma kunnen worden onderzocht, en gecommuniceerd, om uit deze valkuil te ontsnappen. Wil je helpen om dit spel verder vorm te geven? We zoeken schrijvers, 3D-ontwerpers, enz.

other: Iris - Stoelmassage

20 min ontspannen

Tijdens deze stoelmassage (met kleding aan) worden je rug, schouders, nek, hoofd, armen en handen los gemasseerd. De technieken zijn gebaseerd op de klassieke, Thaise, Ayurvedische en Shiatsu massage.

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