Not for Any*

A toolkit for exercising collective conditions for openness, access and authorship.
Update September 2022: The Not for Any* toolkit is not online anymore.
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About the toolkit

Through this toolkit we propose to (re)turn (to) the politics of open licenses. With it, we create space for collective engagement with open licenses from a (techno)feminist perspective in a playful and embodied way.

The toolkit includes a series of exercises to do this with. The exercises are an invitation to unfold context specific understandings of open licenses and explore situated formats and imaginaries of openness, access and authorship. While staying close to the presence of our different bodies, different privileges and different conditions, the exercises will hopefully make space for intensified engagements and playful activities.




This project is initiated by Manetta Berends & Joana Chicau (both members of Varia) and is developed as part of a fellowship at the Sandberg Institute in 2020.

© Varia, 2020 - This toolkit is published under The Non-Violent Public License v5 (NPLv5), more information about this license can be found here.
The Non-Violent Public license is a freedom-respecting sharealike license for both the author of a work as well as those subject to a work. It aims to protect the basic rights of human beings from exploitation and the earth from plunder. It aims to ensure a copyrighted work is forever available for public use, modification, and redistribution under the same terms so long as the work is not used for harm.