varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) is a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology. As varia members, we maintain and facilitate a collective infrastructure from which we generate questions, opinions, modifications, help and action. We work with free software, organise events and collaborate in different constellations. varia figures things out as they go, tries to keep notes, is multilingual, has open hours and can be contacted at info[@]varia.zone.
Century 21 Calling is back; still showing archival industrial films, corporate infomercials, TV reports and historical documentaries that shaped the imagination of tomorrow and hold them up to the light of the present.
This evening we will be screening the documentary Crystal Go To War from 1943. Created by the …
read moreBibliotecha is a toolkit to maintain local off-line digital libraries. With it, communities can create and share collections of digital publications in their local area. Technically Bibliotecha relies on a small single board computer (such as a RaspberryPi) running free and open source …
read moreThis year's edition of Relearn takes the form of multiple sessions, spread over the (bezier) curve between (possibly Amsterdam)-Rotterdam-Brussels-Paris. This Relearn session in Rotterdam is the first control point on the curve.
read moreAt the end of last year, De Player approached Varia to develop a web-publication for their Pushing Scores project archive. The project investigated the state of the arts of composing scores in a contemporary environment and spanned over 2-3 years.
Varia contributed by developing an …
read morePlease feel welcome to join us for a day of discussion, co-learning and reflection on the housing situation in Rotterdam, our rights as tenants and how we can support each other to work towards solutions for more safe, secure and affordable housing.
read moreDuring the fifth screening of our Century 21 Calling series we will take a look at how to stay safe in an insecure world. Rules change over the decades; What was once seen as a completely safe thing to do, is now extremely deadly. How do you stay safe in …
read moreDuring the next edition of South Explorer Varia will host its second annual open day. Expect an afternoon full of heated discussions, sound installations and retro video games. These include Idione Dynamic’s ‘What Remains’ and Mathijs van Oosterhoudt’s ‘Strange Fruits’. Furthermore, Thomas Walskaar will conduct interviews for his …
read moreAddressing our digital dependencies as self-organised spaces.
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We traveled from home to home by bicycle, setting up homeservers. As friends and companions on this Infrastructour, we studied our routers over drinks served by our hosts. Where possible we installed our servers in our homes, in other cases we had to depend on another member of …
read moreThere is more between heaven and earth than humankind! Therefore, we would like to direct your attention to your fellow "inanimate" object on the 15th of March. On this day five special acts will showcase their intimate relationship with their sewing machines, toasters, fans and working gloves. All this under …
read moreIn February, Varia has the pleasure to host one of the nomadic Conversas evenings. Conversas is a series of bi-weekly informal meetings made so that we can get to know each other, share projects, stories or interests.
read moreIt's a new year! Dennis (de Bel) is back, the window is broken and l'intolerant #18 is out. Enough reasons to come together and have a drink.
This Friday, the 11th of January, from 19:30, Varia opens its doors for some special new year's drinks and some fitting music …
read moreA cold wind is blowing through Charlois; leaves are falling from of trees, birds fly to the south and people start waxing their ice skates. The end of 2018 is neigh! What can we do about this? Celebrate the holidays at Varia of course! Come and dance to some holiday …
read moreDuring our fourth and final screening of Century 21 Calling this year, we will honour the holiday season by taking a look at the development of ‘the shopping experience’. During this 'Christmas special' we'll take a walk through the shopping center and focus our attention on amazon.com, creditcards and …
read moreWhat could community-owned social media look like? A public Wtt�F discussion on Mastodon, the Fediverse and translations.
read morePitch, timbre, texture, volume, duration and form; These are the secret ingredients to most compositions. The question remains however; Is there also room for something extra? And what could that extra element be? Today we will focus on the concept of velocity by showcasing concerts by musicians working with both …
read moreDuring this evening we focus on the archiving of the Pushing Scores project by DE PLAYER; A project on the contemporary meaning of the 'graphic score', which has been running for the last 2-3 years. What are the possibilities of graphic scores, in a day and age in which graphic …
read moreBecause we can't always keep the pressure on, we've added a musical intermezzo during Woodstone Kugelblitz: Druk In Varia.
read moreWoodstone Kugelblitz: Druk in Varia is a three day convivial book sprint where we make a Very Useful Cookbook based on recipes for and from daily life.
read moreOver the last couple of centuries rapid changes in technology, economic fluctuation, technological replacement and planned obsolescence have resulted in a fast-growing surplus of (electronic) waste around the globe. An equally growing demand has risen for the re-purposing, repair, disposal and salvaging of this material, generating different methods that each …
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It is a rule of life that everything that moves forward, must also one day also look back. Varia is no exception to this truism and that is why we are going to celebrate the first anniversary of our residence at the Gouwstraat.
You are welcome to join us, feast …
read moreIn recent years, new peer-to-peer protocols have appeared that attempt to decentralise the transmission of information over the internet. Instead of one central machine delivering information to many others, the focus has shifted to enabling all machines to serve files to one another. The InterPlanetary …
read moreWhat shapes the daily routine of a telemarketing sales agent? How to go beyond the co-working model when it comes to organize a place for collaboration? What's the territorial and political role of furniture within the semi-domestic area of the artist's studio? Are life hacks a form of liberation or …
read moreDuring our third screening of Century 21 Calling, we will be taking a look at the development of satellite communications. From the shiny orbs of the 1950s to our present day SATCOM systems.
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