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Brewing Permacomputing Collectives

Brewing Permacomputing Collectives

Self-Organised Networks against Big Tech

Date: Friday 28 november, 2025, 17:00 - 18:30 hrs
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag 
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Stroom Den Haag and Willem de Kooning Academy Research Centre present Brewing Permacomputing Collectives, a series of short presentations with members of international Permacomputing groups.   

Permacomputing is a growing community inspired by permaculture, oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology. Permacomputing.net acts as a hub and entry point into these networks. They recently received the Error 406 [Tech Fascism] Not Acceptable award to create a guide to help the creation of permacomputing communities everywhere. 

Stroom Den Haag is hosting two days of exchange between groups from the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. This occasion marks the first international Permacomputing meetup, and expands the ongoing discussion around sustainable and collective approaches to computation, drawing from permaculture practices.  

During an afternoon of short presentations, followed by a moderated discussion, members of permacomputing groups will share recent activities, tools, and reflections from their local nodes, touching on topics of ecological- and communal infrastructures and care in technical systems. The event provides an opportunity to learn about the struggles, hopes, and approaches to radically rethink everyday technology and computational culture.  

Featuring:  

  • anna andrejew (The Hague artist, Mens en Tuin, Stadsoase Spinozahof, Volkskeuken, On Solid Ground research group, permacomputing.net)  

  • Brendan Howell (Berlin Permacomputing Meetup, LURK, permacomputing.net)  

  • Aymeric Mansoux (WdKA Research Centre, LURK, permacomputing.net)  

  • Ana Meisel (London Permacomputing Club, Superkilogirls)  

  • Danny Tirthdas van der Kleij (Varia, permacomputing.net)  

  • Lua Vollaard (Stroom Den Haag) 

Brewing Permacomputing Collectives is part of the contextual programme to the exhibition ave bossa, bow ole by Jenna Sutela. The exhibition introduces the term ‘tech povera’, coined by Sutela, to describe the an approach to technology that is raw, experimental, and both live and alive.   

The event is made possible with support from Stroom Den Haag, expectation.fail, Stimuleringsfonds, Willem de Kooning Academy Research Centre, the UK Government, and Arts Council England.