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!
“Looking Up” (PwG – from Polish “Patrzymy w Górę”) is an online platform designated to educate, inform and inspire individuals, collectives, and communities about the ongoing collapse of our ecosystem and industrial civilization. It provides easy access to solid scientific knowledge about the reasons for the current state of affairs, given in an accessible format; a constant stream of moderated current information from credible sources; inspiration for community-level action limiting the effects of the progressive dysfunction of technical, economic and social infrastructure.
The PwG programme launches from 1 February 2024, with a project to build a prototype of the platform and selected services to test the operation and provide a basis for the subsequent implementation of a ‘production’ installation. All work results will be made available to the public under an open licence. The work at this stage will be carried out on a volunteer basis and the necessary costs will be crowdfunded (crowdfunding, individual donations). The collective author and coordinator of the project is the community represented by the TePeWu Association.
In line with the dynamics of the TePeWu community, the program’s assumptions and progress will be audited periodically every three months.
We invite interested individuals and collectives to collaborate on the project.
Contact for the PwG programme:
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.
Registering the TePeWu Association as an ordinary association means that we cannot carry out business or paid public activities. This will change when we transform TePeWu into a chartered association, which is planned for early 2025. In 2024, Artel will therefore operate on a gift economy basis. What does this mean in practice? Our work … Read more
On 15th of December 2023 the TePeWu Association has been registered by the head of the Wschowa District. The association opetrates based on the Law of Associations and following bylaws
Version 1.0. Collectively and individually, we strive for self-determination, self-governance and self-improvement Self-determination is expressed by defining our own goals, our own identity and our relationship to the world around us, without conforming to other people’s templates and labels. Self-governance is our ability to make and execute decisions, without recourse to external forces or authorities. … Read more
The following core objectives were adopted at the inaugural community meeting on 30 December, 2023. For ourselves: to cultivate freedom, solidarity, help and care for each other in a space safe from harmful interference. To each person according to their needs, from each according to their abilities. For our surroundings: helping others to face the … Read more
These guidelines were sent to us, for the road towards a better world, by an unnamed comrade from the front lines of the cognitive war on oppression.
We publish them as inspiration and discussion material as the Artel community grows.
We felt it was important to separate the urgent need to organize the management of assets, and relationships with allied groups, from the process of community building, which requires calm and a willingness to learn from mistakes.
