Which parties does the team consist of during the start phase?

• Intellectual pioneers and hands-on experts in the realm of permacomputing, navigating the hardware, software, and network technologies.
• A varied ensemble of art organizations, each at different stages of grappling with the environmental ramifications of our digital footprints, yet all sharing a profound engagement with their audiences.
• A coalition advocating for "speakers for the living," comprising biologists, ecologists, and landscape architects, tasked with bridging the gap between environmental sciences and the challenges faced by organizations.
• Fabbula, distinctly focused on the intersection of social and environmental sciences through the lens of participatory and engaging realtime media arts, aiming to spark action and dialogue in the public arena.

By the kick off, we're keen on incorporating a cutting-edge playstudies research lab to delve into the methodological underpinnings, along with a visionary game designer to catalyze creativity from the very first workshop.

How does the group tend to grow?

In its second year, the project aims to expand in France to encompass all actors within the HACNUM network who are concerned about the environmental and social impact of their technology use. This also extends to an institutional network less directly involved in the field of artistic creation yet active in the cultural sector and increasingly consuming digital technologies. This includes the more than 100 public institutions under the auspices of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, with whom we maintain close ties.

We envision a similar possibility for engagement in the Netherlands, thanks to the support of the French Institute in the Netherlands and the Stimulering Fund, aiming to forge new partnerships.

Who are the first key players?

The start-up phase involves key players to ensure research integrity, international institutional relevancy and artistic quality

Permacomputing Wiki, a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture, dedicated at articulating the several notions necessary to understand the stakes of permacomputing. They are more than 40 researchers, hackers, designers, artists, game makers, collaborating with arts & culture organizations to build knowledge and capabilities through workshops, interventions and commissions. They will follow the project all along to guarantee the quality and integrity of research.

Klaas Kuitenbrouwer and the Zoönomic Institute, incubated at Het Nieuwe Instituut where he is the director of research, proposes an organizational model (Zoöp) for cooperation between human and non-human life that promotes the interests of the living by making the voices and interests of non-human life part of the decision-making. A few months ago, in a paper entitled “Zoönomic integrity & permacomputing”, Klaas proposed ideas on how would Zoöps read and aim to transform their ecological relations in which computation plays a part. To go further, the conversation needs experimentation and cases studies that the playground could provide with.