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On February 29, 2024, we submitted a project to the Chaos Computer Club competition for a grant for an artistic work depicting a utopian vision of a community in times of chaos.
For obvious reasons, we believe that TePeWu is creating and realizing just such a vision. So we asked ourselves what might be happening to our community in 2051 – and we intend to provide the answer in art form.
Below you’ll read how we answered the CCC questionnaire. If it resonates with you, join us!
The primary task of the programme is to educate, inform and inspire individuals (and communities, collectives or institutions) dealing theoretically or practically with the subject of the unfolding collapse of industrial civilisation, and with grassroots, community-based forms of confronting it.
Our area of operation is Poland, but everything we do can be easily cloned in any location.
The tool for this is an online platform that allows us to collect, store and share information in various formats.
Within our declared boundaries, we strive to remain impartial, above all avoiding infights and proselytising. We face challenges that cannot be accurately predicted, so every rationally justified approach (and some irrational ones), carries the potential for success.
Our long-term goal is to make a contribution to preparing the next generation for the world we are leaving them to live in.
Below we provide answers to questions asked through various channels. The list will grow longer and the answers will be updated as the programme progresses.
The purpose of the “Looking Up!” platform is to educate, inform and inspire all those who are tackling civilisation collapse from the bottom up, in their communities.
The Looking Up! platform, understood as a package (stack) of cooperating applications, essentially has three main tasks:
The above tasks will be the subject of prototyping in the first phase of the “Looking Up” programme. The following activities will be gradually introduced from the implementation phase on.
How towns, villages and neighbourhoods can face the crisis fed by the idea of unlimited growth,
depletion of cheap oil, climate catastrophe and on top of that, come up with working solutions?
We need a meeting space and a channel of communication to formulate an answer to this question.
Indeed, capitalism has wrought its own demise and given us the chance to undertake the construction of a new society on the ruins of the old one. It is we who have built the world that the capitalists and their servants have appropriated. It is we who will build the next one – from the remains of the previous one. As we are not afraid of ruins.
Now that we are building a new community, and when we have less and less space left for doing stupid things, I invite you – Dear Reader – to have a conversation about decent means leading to decent goals, which TePeWu is now setting for itself.
As we free ourselves from the pervasive state-capitalist culture and from the reactivity trap of the traditional anti-system approach, we need a new space of meaning for all our activities. And the rest – solvitur ambulando.
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