The
Mutable Net
About
the Network 

 


  A Repository for the Mutable Net is a collectively-built archive focused on the practice of Wireless Community Networks. It is aimed at creating a space to document experimentation and gather critical, conceptual, and practical knowledge on alternative infrastructures. This repository functions as a cybernetic space for guiding the creation of a "Mutable Net": a networking infrastructure that is free, adaptable, non-exploitative, and defined by shared governance. 
  The sections below follow the structure of the creation process of a shared networking infrastructures — here divided into three steps — that is developed through a set of experiences designed to be reproduced and adapted to different contexts, fostering the extension of an ecosystem of distirbuted literacy.



        

 Here you can access the full list of all devices currently composing the Mutable Net, along with their construction documentation:
  


  

  

    
      
        
          
        
        
          
        
      

      
      

      
      

      
      

      
      
        
        [1]
        Hacking
        Devices
      

      
      
        
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        Reshaping
        Nodes
      

      
      
        
        [3]
        Building the
        Commons
      

    
  


 

  

    Each of the step above is collectively developed through a set of experiences aimed at being reproduced and adapted to different contexts, and is created to explore the various facets of the practice of Wireless Community Networks.
    The first one, Hacking Devices, creates an archive of successes and failures shall be created based on hands-on flashing of connectivity devices with free and open software; here, nodes become communitarian tools that respond to the needs of the collectivity, reflecting the flexibility of the system introduced in the first physical interaction. 
    By Reshaping Nodes, the "Mutable Net" aims to create a space to explore the physicality of a mesh node and transform it into a technical object generated to respond to collective needs in various contexts.
    With Building the Commons, the experiences conclude with a building phase, where connections between nodes are established, and a collective agreement is discussed to ensure the commons aspect of free networking infrastructures. Through these experiences, a new, freed infrastructure is created, the governance of which is decided by its users and that is physically and technically developed to respond to the needs of the collectivity.
      The methodology presented in this website was directly informed by the research contained in The Mutable Net Pubblication of which more information can be accessed below: