Hello!,
I'm Maf'j Alvarez. I'm a process-based artist and digital designer currently freelancing. My art practice relates to exploring collaborative practices and generative outputs based on working with people in ad-hoc ways. Recently this has been via my Rootbeans drawing game. My website is http://www.limbicfish.net and gives a better idea of my work. Self-organisation and artistic involvement in social, ecological and political areas is vital if we want to construct a vision of reality that will work for everyone and the planet. That's why I'm involved with Cascade. I hope to contribute my experience with collaborative practices, agile methods, consensus decision-making experience and juicy connective artistic energy to the mix.

Hi! I'm Gilly and I'm the creative producer at hexology which is all about putting stories in spaces and places, using QR codes, barcodes and GPS, and in time - after our Kickstarter next month - beacons and NFC stickers. We're all about putting a bit of magic into the world, and really up for playing with how stories found in random or specific places can bring a smile to the high street. We're more about the little people than the corporates, particularly in our trials, so let's talk about how we can put your stories in to spaces that people can find.

Hey everyone!

I'm Charlie, a games designer and programmer originally from Cambridge who moved down here because East Sussex is the sunniest county!

Come for the sun, stay for the progressive politics, helpful council schemes, active independent game development scene and delicious chips.

I'm reasonably multi-disciplined when it comes to technical things so if you need a hand with anything computer related I might be able to help.

I'm based in 'The Fusebox' so if you want to chat in person then I'm normally always there and willing to be distracted.

Hello,

I do stuff around food, plants, land, technology and people working together.
Current projects Im working on are a mobile workshop/hackspace (wood, metal, electrics), supporting the creation of a community farm and collaborative exploration of soil science.

Hi I'm Abigail and I currently work with young asylum seekers. I am also a forest school practitioner and co director at the centre for ecotherapy at Stanmer park. I have recently set up a community knowledge hub bus and enjoy things to do with plants, books and music.

Hi

I’m Kate. I’m an artist, researcher and educator at chroma.space

Felix Gonzales & me started the CASCADE network for ONCA’s Festival of Climate Ideas as an experiment in running an open-source, open network open lab hacking the present with ideas from the future - it involved biospheres, projections, seedbombs, twitter analysis, messages planted around Paris and interviewing a lot of people about the future they wanted to live in.

Running that project during the COP21 in Paris gave me a sense of how it was eminently possible for people to work together creatively and inventively for a big cause, and that to assist that kind of collaborative potential it was worthwhile really sharing co-working, collaboration tools. What emerged at the Paris meetings at ZAC was the need for wide-scale structural change of financial systems, energy, waste, food distribution, water, employment, permaculture.. - the list goes on - and meeting this need, not with talk, but with creative invention, proof of concept and bold action.

I feel passionately that creative culture transmits possibilities. Essentially it would be good to connect the various activists / social innovators / creatives / tech for good folk and simply people who care about how we live on the earth in Brighton and create something. Street parties have been mentioned! Since Paris we’ve been sharing skills around consensus decision making, photogrammetry, game design with an aim towards a September creative hack of the city. Whatever happens can grow organically at its own time & what happens depends on what interests & wills cluster - the group is not led by any one person.

In the last meeting there emerged an interest in running a weekend on living differently: an open invitation to live by an alternative economy for a weekend - with reference to GoodMoney - and create a hub of exchange for people to meet, share food, ideas, create and connect - in way that facilitated lots of autonomous creative actions. I'm also interested in the game ideas Charlie shared - and the idea of creating a future-is-now performance game / geo-located journey for the streets of Brighton around hacking the city with alternatives - mixing deaddrops, guerrilla actions, hacking, performance, online & real-time storytelling & the appearance of various designed "things" & “objects” & biological entities that network and ask for interaction from Brighton. Looking forward to the next meet.

Hello! I just started a proposal by mistake about bigging up plankton! But really it was meant to be an introduction....
I have a background in sculpture and painting. After graduating from a fine art degree, I collaborated with other artists and musicians, exhibiting and hiring out my sculptures to events and exhibitions in London and San Francisco.
I completed a 2 year acting course in London, at the end of which I co-founded an eco themed Theatre In Education company in 2002. As part of the theatre company we toured schools in London performing plays and leading drama and art workshops. Having also studied an MA in 3D Animation and Special Effects, I then worked in a games company and moved on to creating my first Sterescopic 3D display for Kew based around educating people about the importance of microscopic ocean plankton.
I am now working to incorporate my passion for nature, conservation, education and art by creating links with charities, leading workshops, doing beach cleans, working with technology and art to inspire people to get motivated to reconnect with our ocean and planet.