From our personal perspective, fada'íat was a new attempt to implement a logical mechanism based on the universal language of symbols, allowing, in a few hours, the emergence of a spacial configuration emancipated from techtonic elements: architecture as hardware for the development of processes.

The departure from tectonics is part of what we consider the first phase of "solidification" of other communication options beyond the already corrupted nucleus of people/minds/happiness exchange that the network of networks is becoming as built by the new economy. In a first instance, the departure from tectonics is due to the need to work in the only contemporary framework providing for solid tools of counter-hegemonic action. It is just a new battle field.

In our work we try to subvert the scheme imposed by the infoeconomy in which a swarm of machines, working minds and infocapital organised around a myriad of micro-processes determines the stabilisation of a global state of balance that strengthens hegemony and weakens communication.

This architecture has its principal pillar in the mental gap that can be stolen from the system for the non-production of infocapital: the generation of algorithms of free global communication. Its contribution consists in its potential to create specific spaces of human communication via the reconfiguration of the clouded plasma of data fluxes.

We consider that, for a few hours, in fada'íat we were able to deprogram the system of automatisms which we usually react to the reality of geography with. The flux of anonymous data generated by mediatic cooperation achieved to feed a geographic algorithm, free code produced and supported by multiple nodes that managed to fly over and across all directions of Europe Southern border. >from *Fadaiat site*.

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> propuesta de observatorio del estrecho. 'presentamos como propuesta para el castillo de santa catalina su puesta en valor como el centro intercultural de nuevos medios 'observatorio del estrecho'. second half of 2004
> think tools for revolution > reclaim the streams!. 'video and audio streams from the think repository of riga, the toolkit of graz & the permanent revolution of barcelona are transmitted via gollum.artefacte.org, a tool for the new era. the fusion of the three events has to be total because politics is everywhere, because the new form that culture is acquiring in the barcelona mercalab is dangerous and spreading.' september 17, 2004
> fadaiat: a new kind of public space. 'the mix, local-global, physical-digital, of outgoing and incoming streams will produce a new kind of public space, which we have been experimenting with for some years.' june 18, 2004
> life-coditioning: jatorri irekiko arkitektura. [arquitectura hacia un código abierto] se propone observar / describir / autopresentar / interactuar con un conjunto de iniciativas que quieren 'volver' la arquitectura al usuario y por tanto intervienen en el lenguaje y la expresión al actuar / operar / raptar / subvertir el espacio e imaginario mayoritario.' april, 2004
> HighNoon: wsis? we seize!. 'agregation of video has already been experimentaly established in recent months by v2v project, using free software, open formats and standards to encode, store and syndicate production quality video in sustainable and managable way... an audiovisual protest that gathers objections against the wsis in geneva in order to assert our claims to the so called "information society".' december 8, 2003
> hackitecture and other data flow' architectures. 'times have changed and we need new words for the new realities, and new tools to operate within them. presentation on some proposals for new concepts related to architecture and urbanism.' march 28, 2003
> pure-data beta rave. 'in the present days of involution of civilisation from the summit, of techno-militarization of the borders and implementation of the society of control... wich is the role of the individual in front this situations? and more specifically, wich is the role of the scientist? and the role of the architect, and the role of the engineer?' january 18, 2003

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> do we return to afrika their power lines?