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>Tool

Chronos, an online database to enter information about social and political events. It is a tool engineered from the Euromovements network. It is focused actually at the European level and with a time frame limited from 1994. You can use it, entering a new event, searching for data and information, writing personal comments for each event.
If you want to enter new information inside the database you have to register first. For any other action you don't need to register. The project is at its first demo version, you can contact with us here




>Synopsis

Chronologies are an exercise of mapping the beats of collectives actions, the frequencies and rhymes of desires, necessities and actions develop by a group of actors involved with social transformation.
Chronologies are a tool to communicate resistances and fights to the rest of the world; it is used by actors inside social movements and activist research. It is a way to listen and feel the rumours of resistances with their specific histories, reasons, goals and means.

This database is thought to help activist communities and social movements to develop their collective memory and to see how their own collective memory sum up and join other dynamics of transformation elsewhere. The Chronos project is also a tool so people can explore and learn more about social and political mobilizations. Learning about each event: When, where, why, what and who? The user of the database can search for those informations, he can check for the existing available online qualitative documents related to the event, and he can also add its comments, insert new events or develop his subjective narrative about how significant was this event for him/her. In that sense, the chronos project is a tool to insert factual information about social and political events, it is also a tool to organize and compile qualitative documents that are building the knowledge generated by the event, and it is a place where to develop and share storytelling in a subjective way.

The result of those three levels is a technopolitic composite that allows its users to travel around the stories drawn by the collective memory of the resistances, struggles and fights. In a certain way, this tool is like science fiction, uchrony, like folk resistant songs, like call for actions, and its contents are collective names composing the cultural activist imaginaries moving around. Leaving, freezing and reappearing like shiny phoenix. Our hearts, hears, eyes, hands, feeling ideas, watching tactics, smelling emotions, trying to build records and documentaries about the vital energies that pushed through social and political mobilizations; making of each event a swarm of personal and collective, political, philosophical and technical praxis. How do we communicate those things? - sympathy, decision, seriousness, dignity, rage, people behaving together in name of social transformation anyway anywhere..

>Links

Visit the Chronos database

Watch the video of recent political and social mobilizations

Read the white book about this project