Conversation on the impact of e-waste on the environment and health

On Friday 5 July 2024 we celebrated the panel conversation La TASSE des IDÉES, part of the IDÉES project, impact of electronic waste on the environment and health. It took place at Karibu, a reception and accommodation space for African defenders of dialogue meetings, knowledge production and knowledge about citizen movements. The motivation for setting up this conversation was to […]

Sharing IDÉES visual campaign

Although the IDÉES project focuses on the impact of e-waste in Senegal, we want to invite everyone to share our visual campaign, since it’s the same effects everywhere and something everyone should be aware of. IDÉES wants to reach people globally, as e-waste travels around the globe, from the extraction of raw materials in the global south, to massive production […]

IMPACT23 Ecologies of attention

In November we will join the symposium IMPACT23 « Ecologies of attention ».It will take place in PACT Zollverein (Essen- Germany) between the 8th and 12thNovember.IMPACT is PACT’s yearly interactive symposium, and invites artists, practitioners, theoreticians and advanced students from the fields of dance, theatre, performance, visual arts, new media, film, music, architecture and other extended practices in art and […]

IDÉES – Impact of e-waste on the environment and health

We live in times where there are many challenges and it is difficult to decide from where to face them.Specialised training has been promoted, which isolated some areas of knowledge from others, but now we realise that there is no isolated knowledge, but that ones are connected with others, and all of them are necessary. The view has to be […]

Mapping techno-colonialism

We have created a collaborative map to map Techno-colonialism.Through workshops we will identify what exactly is technocolonialism, and what is its territory. This map will be the reflection of the participatory research that will be done, where we will show from the e-waste dumps, the origin of the materials from which electronic devices are produced, where they are produced, who […]

Some thoughts that came out during the workshop Techno-colonialism

On Saturday July 8th, we conducted an online workshop as part of “Cuerpxs difusxs y parentescos distribuidos” in the framework of e-cuerpo: encuentro internacional de arte y tecnología wearable. During the workshop we had the presence of about 20 people, where we introduced the notion of technocolonialism as the intrusion of technology in a territory. But which territory has limits, […]