Simon Browne on Varia

Varia prints SomeTimes 7 & 8

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Varia prints all the news that can fit in SomeTimes.

B(r)oilerplates for Fictionality

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this session, we will talk about the human-centered specificities and differences between initiatives doing stuff with technology (gossip, folklore, craft, aesthetics, scenes). In order to discuss them we propose a plastic-fictional etymology of these 5 words as a game to explore and map the multiple natures of ‘doing things with technology’.

Pibliothèque workshops

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For 2 days, Lionel Maes and the research group Les nouveaux habits du colportage (Alexia de Visscher, Alice Néron, Léonard Mabille) will be running a workshop on an offline, local and collaborative tool of sharing digital books

Declarations Pen Pals

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Dear CSS writers, web-artisans and declarative artists, Declarations is organising its first meetup at Varia in Rotterdam. Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its echoes on design and artistic practices. For that occasion we decided to focus two days on CSS inside emails.

Calm Coding x PrePostPrint Local Meetup

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

F/LOSS publishing tool users, unite! If you’re curious to explore Free/Libre and Open Source Software to make publications and layouts with, or have already worked with these tools and are looking for ways to exchange with others, please join us!

Calm Coding x PrePostPrint Local Meetup

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Dead Web Club Presents: Sunrise With Sea Monsters

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Dead Web Club invites you to join the first of our Dead Web Cinema Club events, where we put the glowing beam of the projector on the topic of data, servers, hard drives, online forums, and virtual worlds.

Varia prints SomeTimes 4

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Varia prints all the news that can fit in SomeTimes

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.

Varia prints SomeTimes 3

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Varia prints all the news that can fit in SomeTimes

Varia Afhaal: Stock Exchange

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Varia Afhaal are thematic gatherings based around the common experiences, everyday technologies and home economics of food preparation.

Varia Afhaal: Chip Shortage or Chips on Demand

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Varia Afhaal are thematic gatherings based around the common experiences, everyday technologies and home economics of food preparation.

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

Varia prints SomeTimes2

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

Varia prints all the news that can fit in SomeTimes

Book launch: Cyberfeminism Index

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On February 12 at 5 p.m., Varia will host the book launch for designer and editor Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index. The event will feature a performative reading by Seu, a casual conversation with audience members, and light refreshments.

Toward a Minor Tech

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Varia has been invited to work on the production of the 12th edition of this Peer-reviewed Newspaper, a publication series of research/PhD workshops investigating contemporary digital culture. The newspaper is made within a wiki-to-print environment and will be presented during the Transmediale festival on Thursday 2nd of February.

Publishing Partyline

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Join us for the Publishing Partyline on the 14th and 15th of October, to dive into the dependency relations that are being formed when working with web-to-print techniques, between designers-and-tools and between tools-and-standards.

Hold & Release Partyline

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Calibre remains to be popular among amateur librarians and digital libraries. Over time, the software was supplemented by many new features and plugins. Now, we want to revisit the digital library as an extensible space, and step back into the imagination of the library as a generative and social environment.

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.

Varia prints SomeTimes

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Starting from today, Varia will print all the news that can fit in SomeTimes

pad-publishing @ zine camp

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

During this workshop we will experiment with models of resonant publishing using Etherpad and web2print techniques, in which actions of writing, processing and lay-out making continuously cross each other.

Read & Repair feat. The Bootleg Library

Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open every last Sunday of the month. This Sunday, we’re joined by The Bootleg Library, a shared digital and physical library of bootlegged texts.