Decentral1se on Varia

Prikbord.page walk-in hour

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Prikbord.page is a collective calendar for artistic and cultural events in Rotterdam, organised by cultural free spaces and other idiosyncratic places. Would you like your events to be shared on prikbord.page, come by! If you’ve been using the calendar and noticed some bugs, come by! If you have some fun ideas for the calendar, come by! If you’d like to join the team in some way, come by!

AFNR x Rural Technology

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The third show in a series of radio broadcasts that examines rural technology.

London Permacomputing Club: Literate Programming Workshop

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

During this session we will discuss the role of code as a tool for communicating methodology to human audiences. Through practices of Literate Programming and explanatory storytelling, we will explore the forms of the ‘repair manual’ and the relationships we form with our functional possessions.

Rural Technology

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The second show in a series of radio broadcasts that examines rural technology.

Rural Technology

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The first in a series of radio broadcasts that examines rural technology.

Community technology from below

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

fauno is a software developer, organiser and worker-owner at Sutty.nl). His work and activism focus on investigating, re-thinking, adapting, modifying, and implementing ecological and resilient technologies, especially autonomous, collectively managed infrastructure. On Thursday evening, September 18th, we will have an informal show & tell. We will be learning about fauno’s work, and have space for discussion & dinner afterwards. Everyone is welcome to join!

Vakbond Precaire Netwerken

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

VPN is an apprenticeship-based technology school for radical organizers. It offers an IT curriculum to otherwise underserved communities and organizations advancing social justice causes. We train politically self-motivated individuals who aim to set up and maintain digital infrastructure for themselves and their communities. We stand for direct action and mutual-aid, to end our dependence on technology monopolies. We work in the here and now towards a grassroots alternative for digital technology and society.

Investigative Journalism workshop

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This workshop will begin with a presentation by Naima Cornelia on the methods behind the story, what questions to ask, where to find those answers, and how. and then a hands-on session where we will discuss different ways to tackle a research question. We start by seeing what information we can find online, try some google-search techniques, see what we can dig up and go from there.

Solidarity Network(ing)

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We want Varia to be used by people who live in the neighbourhood. Is it already happening but we’ve never met you all together, we’d love to have a moment to formalise how this can work for everyone. With conversation and food we want to set up ways to organise and coordinate the access for Varia. How can we help each other across our extended solidarity networks? What are our responsibilities to one another and how can we communicate clearly? This is a gathering to share our expectations and needs for this space that we (can) all use.

De Beweging 010 Launch

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On October 20 from 10:30 to 14:00 in the Gemaal op Zuid we will come together in Rotterdam for the first meeting of the 010 movement. The goal of the meeting is to get to know each other and discuss how we can work together to reclaim our city.

PrePostPrint Local Meetup

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

F/LOSS publishing tool users unite! On Friday 24 + Saturday 25 of November we’re organising a gathering in Varia.

Gardening as Electricity Making

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We invite you to ‘Gardening as Electricity Making’, a workshop that celebrates the interplay of soil, electricity, life, and the internet.

Calm Coding

Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A lowkey social hangout for those who like to write computer programs in the company of other people.

South Explorer 2023 Varia Radio Relay

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Varia joins south explorer for the 2023 edition Varia will fill the ether on the PMR Band with reports on neighborhood activities, random chatter and South Explorer updates. Experimental loempias, kombucha fizzzzes and cocktails will also be served

Push to Talk Partyline

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

During a 3-day hands-on workshop we’ll investigate license-free radio as a low-tech and low-power medium for keeping in touch with each other. We want to look at radio as a medium that you can participate in instead of consuming it. We’ll explore the aspects of locality and community present in radio.

Varia x d12n LIMITS hub

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We’re delighted to invite you to our LIMITS-hub, an open and informal gathering moment taking place during the Eighth Workshop on Computing within Limits this June 21st/22nd. As this year’s LIMITS will be taking place online, we are setting up a hub, to have a physical space to meet. Come along to watch the conference together!

Graanschuur tarwewijk: documenta 15 pre-pre-preview

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

As you may already know, a number of Rotterdam-based artists & hackers are busy working on projects related to documenta 15. These projects are happening in collaboration with ruangrupa, the artist collective from Jakarta Indonesia who are running the artistic direction of documenta this year. As documenta 15 approaches, we’d like to have a moment to eat together, share what we’re up to and discuss over some drinks. It can also be a moment to focus on our local ekosistem.

Infraschool Open Day

Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

You are warmly invited to the launch of the Infraschool, an experimental peer-to-peer learning project that aims to explore local community infrastructure, co-operative organisation and digital tools.

Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano + Dachen Bao @ Varia with a screening of ~~~~ by Sami Hammana

Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Juan Pablo will share his research on the Atlantis-2 submarine cable and its landing site in Conil, a small coastal town in the south of Spain filled with ruins of colonial and information infrastructures. Dachen Bao will share his research conducted as part of the self-organised collective ‘Chongqing Work Institute’(重庆工作研究所). The second half of the gathering will open a space to collectively reflect on infrastructures as contentious production and mediation of reality, proposing a collective mode of research on media technologies that operates from a relational and networked proximity.

Feminist Hack Meetings #2 - Polyphonic Radio Ensemble

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s create a radiophonic piece together! Reni Hofmüller will introduce us to radio and the idea of catching the waves artistically and technically. We invite you to join a radio improvisation work, by using and adapting the time- and material structuring method of the Polyphonic Ensemble. Through this collective radio work, we will engage with a techno-feminist approach.

Relearn 2021 curved

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This year’s edition will take place in and focus on Rotterdam. We aim to explore the importance of self-organisation and the use of experimental tools to build alternative systems and economies within the urban fabric of Rotterdam.

Wet Signal Voice Gardens (launch & event)

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

An event exploring the hierarchies, difficulties and politics of voice in the digital domain, arranged for the launch of web-based artwork Wet Signal Voice Gardens by Kari Robertson.

BPW Rotterdam Woonspreekuur

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Please feel welcome to join us for an evening 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.

Dat Conference stream - solarpunk, the decentralised web and peer-to-peer technology

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We’re streaming talks from DatConf at Varia for a little while. Feel welcome!

Alles Flex? Call me Intern, City Dragon

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A screening of the documentaries ‘Everything Flex?’ and ‘Call me Intern’, both of which look at the consequences of the ongoing flexibilization of both housing and work. In addition, Sam Kreuk will present his musical solo project City Dragon. An evening full of documentaries, debate and a music!

One evening, Two launches, Three takes

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

We are all very glad to invite you to the launch of the second issue of **Networks of One’s Own