This is a real ‘web’, just like a spider’s – a place of connections – ideas – information – of dreams!
Our aim is to make it a Web of Hubs for alternative and free cultural spaces and people
The idea is to provide a loose-knit, non-hierarchical, web-based resource network for a wide range of what we are calling ‘Free Cultural Spaces’ (FCS). They wouldn’t necessarily use that term to describe themselves, but we need a simple, non-threatening term!
A movement or a non-movement? Performance as art? Free spaces as art?
Founded from ideas in the Manifesto developed by George Maciunas who was Lithuanian American artist. He was a founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Other leading members brought together by this movement included Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Wolf Vostell.
Complex ideas…
Lots of floating ideas from Denmark! The Floating City, electricity generating bikes and much more.
Their site states: “The goal of Flydende By is to build up a sustainable society from below. We develop methods to create decentralised sustainable solutions out of reused and organic resources.
We want to find ways of using the ocean in a sense-ful and constructive way, as part of the future sustainable society.”
Started around Boston, USA, but now international with lots of local groups. An activist group.
A peace organisation based around their principles: “Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer global movement that shares free vegan meals as a protest to war and poverty. Each chapter collects surplus food that would otherwise go to waste from grocery stores, bakeries and markets, as well as donations from local farmers, then prepares community meals which are served for free to anyone who is hungry. The central beliefs of the group are:
Always vegan or vegetarian and free to everyone.
Each chapter is independent and autonomous and makes decisions using theconsensus
Food Not Bombs is dedicated to nonviolence.”
Links to their website and Facebook page.
Fortean: Based loosely on the ideas of American researcher and writer, Charles Fort (1874-1932), fortean studies include everything that is regarded as ‘anomalous phenomena’. In other words, ‘stuff that is hard to explain’. Fort’s own life-work was to take notes on anything that he found interesting. He appears to have been witty, energetic and endearingly odd. One of his unpublished books, titled simply ‘X’, explored the notion that the inhabitants of Earth are being controlled by the inhabitants of Mars. Charles Fort said, "I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written."
It all seems to be a mad mix of science fiction and fantasy, conspiracy theories, myths, magic, the paranormal with wedges of anarchic humour and general scientific and quasi-scientific research with added mayhem. Perhaps.
Here are links to The Centre for Fortean Zoology (on the track of unknown animals) and the Fortean Times Forum.
Video link to Fort Groenoord community in Afrikahaven, Amsterdam in 2010.
Fort van Sjakoo bookshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands is an international libertarian and radical bookseller, who are described as the ‘Robin Hood of booksellers’, supporting the poor and downtrodden against the rich.
Foundation Owaze - Earthships' info from Netherlands.
Renowned and greatly missed Zippie psychonaut. Originator of many trippy, hippy events and publications. Including the Encyclopedia Psychedelica, Megatripolis and the youniversity.
Old sites, but they include links to some interesting material. Plus a tiny video clip of Fraser with Terence McKenna.
Freedom Cove: Wayne Adams and Catherine King have built their floating arts island in Canada. Some controversy about this as it is a visitor centre too. The link includes video.
Freedom Press is the oldest anarchist publishers in the world. Alongside their books, they run Freedom newspaper and a bookshop in London’s east end. In 2013 there was an attempt to firebomb their premises.