Hack Charts

“Hack Charts: a field guide for dissident infrastructures”- is a foray to learn how to slip trough the cracks of your city and re-purpose infrastructures to turn them against itself, to open up worlds and new resources controlled by dominant forces of production, particularly in Manchester and New York.

Download the Hack Charts.

We had our eyes on a bag – a beautiful bag

How to unload a bag for nothing and practice failure.
You may download here

The Cocoon Project

Lightweight, portable and easy to build.
If you want to make a hundred let us know and we’ll help.
If you want to make any, let us know and we’ll help.

Folds & Knots

How to rappel invisible white walls.

Field Notes

It is necessary that the cocoons are easy to assemble, cheap and comfortable. Its materials and operation are purposely low-tech. The constraints of the cocoons taught us the poetry and elegance of knots and folds and weight and we learned to source and hack spaces and infrastructures for their free and cheap materials.
Materials:
Some Instructions [...]

$40 / 1br – cheap and beautiful and it just might be ok

(that’s you)

Near Future

A cocoon made out of Postal Tyvek Envelopes.

Cocoon Project

A portable shelter initially built to study tree canopies and how the geometry of leaves interacts with light. I found though that this was an ideal resting place. Lightweight, portable and easy to build. It can be set most anywhere you can wrap around.