Back from "Résistances tissées" (first part), a three days workshop at L'école des Beaux Arts de Marseille with students from the school and students from Les Arts Déco de Paris, textile design section. We (@AntoineGelgon and @lionel) were invited by Sybille Berger and Alban-Paul Valmary, together with Orsina Visconti and Sarah Schradder. The students were asked to try to find and exploit flaws in an object detection model and a face detection model we installed on a dedicated computer, linked to a webcam located in the room. They will eventually weave 6 textile objects next month at Les Arts Déco workshop in Paris.

The commodity frontiers journal website is up, with a lot of great articles about the history and present of capitalism, contestation, and ecological transformation in the global countryside.
---->>> https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com
We (@AntoineGelgon, @simon_bvr and @lionel) designed and developped the new website, layout and web-to-print system for the CFI team to publish the Journal both on the website and on academics repositories.
A huge thanks to Mindi Schneider and @marjolijn_dijkman for their trust and their work!

More info: https://those.tools/articles/journal.commodityfrontiers.com/

Allo allo,
I (@lionel) will go to @varia on Saturday 20 September & Sunday 21 September with the research group #lesnouveauxhabitsducolportage, aka @alice, @Xiou and @leonard for a workshop on a files sharing system between computers connected to a local network, designed for collective practices of documents sharing and dissemination. The tool is called Pibliotheque.

More info: https://vvvvvvaria.org/en/pibliotheque-workshops.html
About Pibliotheque: https://those.tools/tools/pibliotheque/
And: https://gitlab.com/those.tools/pibliotheque

A year ago, we ( @simon_bvr and @lionel ), made the website https://firstwaves.be.
It was the first project made at those.tools and I think it is quite exemplative of what the studio is about: this website is an online publication that gives access to silenced stories through a series of documents - radio broadcasts, films, newspapers, leaflets, testimonials, etc from the first waves of struggles for dignity of the Maghrebi and Black diasporas in Belgium. Firstwave uses the tool Chemins (https://those.tools/tools/chemins/) for its backend, a tool made for documents based research. The project was initiated by the Brussels collective The Kichen, with the support of Equal.Be, MENARG & S:PAM (UGent) and BIRMM (VUB).

For the last few weeks, we - @simon_bvr & @lionel - have been working on a new sound map of Brussels for BNA-BBOT. The previous one was made 12 years ago and it really needed an update. Among the changes and new features of the map, there is an important shift : it doesn't need any external API to work anymore. No more Google Maps API for the data, the tiles, the directions, the geocoding; no MapBox, MapTiler, Radar, ... everything is hosted and served on the BNA-BBOT server, with OSM, TileServer, Nominatim, OSRM and MapLibre GL JS.

There is a launch evening planned at BNA-BBOT (119 rue de Laeken, 1000 Bruxelles, 8pm) next wednesday. Please drop by if you're in Brussels!

Last week, in the context of the “open source open course” event organized by @design_numerique, I presented Marginalia.
Marginalia is a software tool for creating multiple columns of text containing footnotes from one column to another. Contrary to the usual principle of footnotes, here it is possible to call up a note from any column to any other. This principle opens up possibilities for multi-user writing, for the co-existence of several voices within a single text, and for writing based on the practice of commentary.
I've been developing Marginalia since 2023, as part of the creation of the book Nairoby Distributed by Sam Hopkins. I've been playing with it in other contexts, aiming to make it a "easy-to-install" and "open-to-multiple-uses" tool. It is still a prototype but a kind of working one, at least for a "single writer" use. Next step: "multi-writers", based on the idea that we don't really need a realtime update when a single character is written.
More on this later :)