Wyvern Art Fund is pleased to present Networks of Mutual Aid (NOMA), a culminating series of launch events of the 2025 Wyvern Art Fund Scholarship Program which has brought together eight artists and thinkers over four-months to explore possible designs for inter-community (counter-)infrastructures. Participants include Arc, Chris Dake-Outhet, Ziyad Hawwas, Miji Ih, Eren İleri, Nat Skoczylas, Juan Pablo García Sossa, and Rain Lena Wegmann.
Enoki Meshroom
The paracommons and parapractices of mesh networks – interdependent communities and embodied gestures
hands-on workshop and location-based LARP
July 24, 2024
Beyond verbal communication and relational interdependence, Enoki Meshroom reclaims and relearns technologies as locally situated and embodied movements of resistance. With every enoki mesh device, the local parastructure – and thereby paracommons – grows and finds new mycelic parapractices to move fragile or meshi information in-between more-than-one and beyond normative networks.
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to mesh networks through the Meshtastic protocol, combining practical device exploration with a location-based LARP on the Tempelhofer Feld. The session begins with an introduction to the Meshtastic protocol, hardware, and other mesh systems. We then continue outdoors, using Meshtastic devices to navigate through an algae wetland and wasteland to our final destination. Participants will discover how mesh networks function in real-world scenarios while engaging through speculative gameplay. The event also introduces our Meshtastic device sharing and borrowing system. Participants are welcome to bring their own Meshtastic devices if available, though no prior knowledge is required.
16:45 — Soft arrival, meet & greet
17:15 — Intro to Meshtastic protocol, hardware and other Mesh systems
17:45 — Break
18:00–19:00 — LARP on the Tempelhofer Feld (with open end)
ACCESSIBILITY INFO
Networks of Mutual Aid (NOMA) presents a series of soft and relaxed launch events to meet, share and practice together in an experimental way. Please feel free to drop in and and out of events whenever you want. There are some events with specific start times but you can still join at a different time. We will have breaks included in our relaxed schedules. However, taking breaks related to your own needs is welcome. Visitors are welcome to move around the spaces and sitting still is optional. You are welcome to bring your support humans, buddies, items or fidgets.
The general spoken language is English. Please do not hesitate to ask questions throughout all events if there is something that is not clearly communicated and/or the language is unclear or unknown. We are happy to clarifying any terms, vocabulary, concepts, etc. as needed and will try and speak in understandable words and at an easy pace. We cannot offer sign language but we can attempt to offer whisper translations with others as needed.
There is no personal identification required to enter and we do not call the police.
All events are free entry.
Please come tested.
offline: Space is located on the ground floor. The entrance has a single 15cm step up to a 96cm wide front door, which opens outwards toward the street. There is one gender neutral bathroom that is not wheelchair accessible. The bathroom has a 58cm wide door with no grab bars. However, it is walkable and there is a wall. The space in non-smoking and there is a small air filter as needed. There are soft and hard seats such as wooden chairs, sofas, and stools. The floor is mostly wooden. The event at offline will include an invitation to visit Floating University nearby. Please see their accessibility information here: floating-berlin.org/site/accessibility