Repair Café Madrid is a weekly meeting to repair small everyday objects and learn to look at them in a more sustainable way. Neighbors can learn how to repair their broken appliances with the help of handyman and accompanied by a coffee. It also has a section of Electroganchillo. Where Repair Café Madrid meets at Medialab Matadero (Terrario room) starting in 2015 in the Serrería Belga building coordinated by the TimeLab working group and the Escala Digital mediation-research project, making use of the resources and tools available at the center. To participate in the meeting no prior registration is required, just come on a Saturday between 18:00 and 20:00 with the device (electrical or electronic) that needs to be repaired. Objectives The objectives of Repair Café Madrid are: Maintain and disseminate knowledge about repair. To promote social cohesion by establishing contact between neighbors. To reintroduce repair in the local society...

Oracle Index is a generative cinema installation that imagines a future Cuba in which cryptocurrency, prediction markets, artificial intelligence, underground gambling, and divination become intertwined as systems for navigating economic uncertainty. The work begins from a speculative scenario. In the aftermath of a total embargo known on the island as La Opción Cero, the government turns to cryptocurrency and prediction markets to draw in hard currency and foreign capital. The Communist Party adopts Futarchy, a model of governance in which political institutions set collective goals while market speculators bet on which policies are most likely to reach them, with the blockchain supplying the transparency and resistance to manipulation the system requires. Locked out of the state-backed platform, ordinary Cubans build underground betting economies, trading derivatives of the official markets over illicit satellite links and repurposing government data streams as raw material for La Bolita, the island’s centuries-old numbers lottery. As...