DIWO is a workshop that explores ‘Doing-It-With-Others’ as a shift from a DIY or solo practitioner mindset, facilitated by Caitlin Dear and Emily Simek as part of WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET.

Participants are invited to bring a text or image that feels like DIWO to you, something that you have on-hand: a scrap, screenshot, or scribble. Responding to these materials, we will expand on DIWO thinking and draft our own speculative definitions, with an eye to friendship, access, resilience, thrift, and working outside institutions. Snacks and tea provided.

When: Saturday 23rd Nov 10-11:30am

Where: Meet on the lawn at the Heritage Gardens, Abbortsford Convent. See site map.

This event is held on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people, and we pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Access: This is an outdoor gathering and we will bring cushions and picnic blankets to sit on, please get in touch if you need upright or supportive seating. The heritage gardens are situated on a grassy slope surrounded by a concrete path, see mobility map. Accessible toilet are located at the Convent Annexe. The location for gathering is flexible pending the needs of the group and the use of common garden space on the day, please get in touch with us to discuss.

WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET is an online space for publishing of draft, in-progress or adjacent creative work – low-fi, scribbled down, scraps of things. Inspired by the ethos of Do-It-With-Others and Peer 2 Peer infrastructures, the website is a work-in-progress that is focussed on process rather than outputs.

The space approaches online publishing and site maintenance through the lens of a community garden. With a focus on resource-pooling, self-publishing, and supporting work-in-development, it takes inspiration from food growing communities who work counter to market and institutional bounds.

This event is part of a soft web launch for WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET. The development of the website was funded by a City of Yarra Small Project Grant.