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those.tools is a software development and design studio for research, editorial and publishing practices in the arts and social sciences. We develop free and open source tools for writing, archiving, mapping, designing and publishing research. 

We activate and adapt each tool to the context of every project we collaborate on. Wether for self-initiated projects or commissioned work, our aim is to explore new ways of doing things, recognizing the epistemological function of tools with a strong focus on collective creative processes.

These processes can produce a variety of objects: books, web platforms, sound installations… They may also, we hope, produce new ideas, new perspectives, new relations.

Open to collaborations, those.tools welcomes fellow designers, developpers, artists with an interest in these topics.

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2024-09-26

firstwaves.be

First waves of Maghrebi and Black struggles in Brussels, and beyond. By Simon Bouvier and Lionel Maes

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firstwaves.be is an archive of the first waves of struggles for dignity of the Maghrebi and Black diasporas in Belgium. Initiated by Brussels collective The Kichen, it brings together the Memory/History collective and the Pioneers of Anti-Racism project, with the support of Equal.Be, MENARG & S:PAM (UGent) and BIRMM (VUB).

The platform gives access to particularly silenced stories, through a series of documents - radio broadcasts, films, newspapers, leaflets, testimonials, etc. This constantly evolving archive, built up by researchers, witnesses and actors of these first waves of struggles, is unique and extremely valuable.

Graphic design and development: Simon Bouvier and Lionel Maes.