Hack The Earth 2026: In Defense of Territories is a gathering to weave alliances between defenders of territories and the networks of life, ancient and communal knowledge, and the internet and free media.

American billionaire Warren Buffett, with an estimated fortune of 133 billion dollars, has said: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." We keep experiencing situations of disbelief, fear, and anger related to the accelerating destruction by the criminal alliance formed by capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. Genocide of the Palestinian people with the help of META and Microsoft, invasion and usurpation of oil-rich countries, conversion of territories into extractable strategic resources through the murder of defenders and resisting communities, destruction of ecosystem diversity to add more cement and data centers, distortion of truth and evidence through AI-generated videos.
We've seen how tech giants finally removed their politically correct mask to show their true face: technofascism based on mass surveillance, militarization of their technologies, outrageous proposals to feed their clouds while they dry up the rivers.

How do we break out of this loop where we can only react to the neocon agenda and find ways to rethink new forms of collective action, self-management processes, and convergence between movements? Our humble proposal for this Hack the Earth (HTE) is to bring together defenders—of the land and of the internet—to exchange knowledge, learn, and, if possible, create new forms of articulation to defend territories while we defend ourselves from this system.

We defend territories and the webs of life, we defend ancient and communal knowledge, we create new worlds. We know that the diversity of ecosystems and technical systems must take priority. In this HTE we're going to build bridges and weave alliances between the sovereignty of our bodies, food sovereignty, and technological sovereignty.

Starting from communality and from the fact that we all share the need to inform and communicate with our support networks and allies, we want to make explicit what we do so that our reflections, demands, proposals, and collective actions reach more people. We want to document our memories, collect evidence and testimonies, so that our struggles, so necessary to transform and change the world, are not left without a voice, without a space to build. In this HTE we're going to discuss and politicize our practices with information and communication technologies, and we're going to reflect on their psychological, social, political, ecological, and economic costs. We'll also look at ways that movements defending digital rights can weave alliances with movements defending territories.

Hackeja La Terra Is the main event of Calafou, colònia ecoindustrial postcapitalista, an ancient industrial colony and now a space of technological, social and political innovation placed at Vallbona d'Anoia. Catalunya.

This HTE marks 15 years of Calafou's existence, our collective proposal to inhabit a territory contaminated and abandoned by the old patriarcapitalist system of "industrial colonies" and resignify it together. Throughout the process, we've learned that the best way to organize an event like this is through self-managed processes and collective action converging for a few days. For our part, we'll offer:

• A space to sleep (in various ways: camping, hostel, van...)
• Food (thanks to our collective kitchen working group)
• Space to gather, talk, and learn (workshops, talks, conferences, round tables)
• Moments and spaces to celebrate (with performances, concerts, and a party for everyone)
• Places to distribute essential care among everyone (caring for and maintaining spaces, waste management, child-friendly space, translation and documentation)

MAP

By train from Barcelona Plaça Espanya

• Take the train R6 or R60 "Igualada". Train timetables FGC R6 o R60.
• The first train leaves at 5:30am and the last one at 22:00h, arribing to Vallbona d'Anoia at 23.28.
• You can take a train every hour and lasts 1 hour and 20 min to arribe to Vallbona d'Anoia.
• Once in Vallbona d'Anoia station, follow the instructions to arrribe to Calafou.
• Atention: you need a 5 zones tiket for the train.
• The tikets are only sold in the machines of "Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya" (FGC), not in the subway stations.

Desde Vallbona d'Anoia

• There is no public transport from Vallbona d'Anoia to Calafou.
• La ruta per a arribar des de l'estació de tren de Vallbona d'Anoia a Calafou, a peu, monopatí, bici, cotxe o furgoneta és gairebé la mateixa.
• Cal baixar direcció sud-oest, sortir del poble i passar pel Polígon Industrial la Plana.
• Quan arribes al polígon hi ha una carretera asfaltada que baixa cap a vall, segueix-la fins al final i creua el va riure.
• Local people will help you to find the place

ROUTE IN OPENSTREETMAP

Agenda ongoing

HLT2026programa.pdf

Resistance to Data Centers

• Tu Nube Seca Mi Rio
  An awareness campaign about the environmental impact of digital infrastructures, especially data centers that consume large amounts of water and energy, drying out rivers and local ecosystems.
  https://tunubesecamirio.com/

• Le Nuage Était Sous Nos Pieds (The Cloud Was Under Our Feet)
  A research and activist collective that makes visible the materiality of digital infrastructures. They unmask the environmental and social impacts of data centers and other mega technological infrastructures, especially in France. They trace submarine cables, data centers and the complicity of public powers to understand what is mobilized when we touch our screens: what travels, pollutes, heats, digs and exploits. They maintain a participatory mapping of projects and resistance against data centers.
  https://lenuageetaitsousnospieds.org/

• Instituto LatinoAmericano de Terraformación — What to do if a data center is planned in your community?
  A practical workshop on resistance strategies and community organizing against the imposition of data centers and other mega technological infrastructures on territories.
  https://terraforminglatam.net/datacenterboom-cuando-la-nube-se-instala-en-nuestro-territorio

• Speculative fiction writing workshop — a game to activate imagination against data centers
  This game aims to collectively write a story, sharing lived situations and common or specific issues. Collective and speculative writing opens up perspectives and sometimes finds solutions by drawing on our imaginations. The workshop is based on a card game that proposes a context and elements that trigger a narrative. Following a classic narrative structure is not mandatory; the group can choose whatever format suits them best. The result could be a short story, a poem, a song, a manifesto…

Extractive Megaprojects

• Col·lectiu 'Per la Conca
  What is happening in Anoia? Fight against the PDUAECO. An association of people and collectives working to preserve, valorize and revitalize the natural and cultural heritage of the Conca d'Òdena. It was born to stop the construction of a large industrial estate and propose alternatives focused on revitalizing river, agricultural and forest spaces, seeking a model "for a living Conca".
  https://perlaconca.org/

• Resistance to Wildfires, Mining Companies and Mekorot in the Comarca Andina
  The Comarca Andina (Puelmapu - Argentine Patagonia) has been burning every summer. While the State hands the land over to mining companies and the water to Mekorot, communities resist by fighting the fires and rebuilding their homes and forests from the ashes. A conversation with comrades from the affected Territory." Lula.

Repairing Damaged Territories

• Mycelating the damage. Fungal alliances for inhabiting a damaged territory — Sporótrica (eemeemee network)
  Sporótrica is a nomadic laboratory of fungal imagination and cultivation practices with others. It is a node of the eemeemee network (Mutant Mycopirate Enclave). The goal of the Mutant eemeemee is to maintain a network of experiences, processes and knowledge generated around DIWO mycology.
  https://eemeemeee.org

• The invisible of water: Microscopic observations of storms and water bodies in La Chimba, Ecuador

• Sacha Manchi — Collaborative processes of artistic creation in wounded territories
  Sacha Manchi is an itinerant school active in Ecuador since 2014 that promotes collaborative, experimental and transdisciplinary artistic practices, combined with popular education and participatory communication. Through horizontal methodologies and "learning by doing", it drives collective self-representation and art as a tool for territorial defense and rights. In this talk, it will share creations and work experiences with communities in deeply wounded territories.

• Symbiosis
  A refuge-space proposed for the entire duration of the event, inspired by lichens — symbiotic organisms 400 million years old — as a living model of cohabitation radically different from capitalism and colonial logics. As night falls, the space comes alive with magnifying glasses and UV lamps to observe the biofluorescence of lichens and imagine rituals for disseminating their way of inhabiting the world. The space also hosts a workshop for making amaranth seed bombs, a plant remarkable for its resistance to industrial herbicides.
  Symbiosis chill-out + green guerrilla workshop

Privacy and Security

• Spyware and TecnoConsultorio
  An open workshop to check for signs of spyware on your phone, and a space to resolve technological doubts and curiosities. We bring zines and technological tools; you bring your questions and challenges. Together we build a safe environment to learn.
  https://sindominio.net/logout/web/

• Organizing under the authoritarian storm
  This workshop explores the new digital repression techniques directed at Human Rights Defenders. We will share recent espionage cases in Europe, South America and North Africa, and review tools to protect our communications and data. Beyond individual self-protection, this space aims to build collective strategies — drawing on experiences from vulnerable communities — to interconnect, resist and strengthen our resilience in the face of the approaching authoritarian storm.

• Capacity, consent and security culture
  A session for security practitioners who are also activists, designed as an open space to reflect on the challenges of promoting digital security at a time when it feels both more urgent and more overwhelming than ever. The conversation will explore consent-based approaches to security, how to build sustainable and holistic models, and how to manage burnout — our own and others'. It will also tackle misinformation about security tools. The talk will be in Spanglish (native English, A2 Spanish).

• Counterinsurgency — control of activism
  Counterinsurgency is a systematic discipline in military and state intelligence services to co-opt dissent, including all activism and counterculture. It is extensively deployed in NATO countries. This workshop discusses what counterinsurgency is in principle and what past and current COIN campaigns look like. There will be a section on media literacy regarding escalating psychological operations directed toward people with Latinx identities.

Defense of Life and the Commons

• Between the communal, art and science: territorial processes from CICTA's experience (Ecuador)
  This workshop shares the processes that CICTA has developed in the territory, articulating the communal, art and science as practices for organizational strengthening and collective reflection. Based on situated experiences, a dialogue space will open on how these crossings allow generating knowledge, memory and care for the territory.
  https://www.cicta.org/acerca-de/

• Plant printing workshop
  Begin a walk with the creatures looking for materials for printing using natural pigments on recycled material (cardboard, paper and other surfaces). We have jars, sponges and rollers. Conceived as a care space where the youngest can have sensory activities.

• Magical counter-hegemony
  A roundtable in which we will use a multimedia artifact to socialize and discuss different aspects of the Contra-hegemonía mágica research, in order to understand ritual practices as tools for hacking Western epistemologies and technologies.
  https://aliens.institute/

• Aerial photography with kites
  Kite-flying activity to monitor possible contamination of the territory.
  https://regist.ro

• LISTENING TO THE EARTH. An aesthetic, ethical and political practice
  LA IN.QUIETA — Rehearsing ways of attuning to the perception of nature as a living being, opening the senses to enter into communication and appreciate ourselves in relation to the Earth. A workshop where we will awaken our bodily senses, listen to the surroundings of Ca la Fou and share stories and records of the experience of coming into contact with nature when we know ourselves as part of it.
  http://inquieta.cat

• Nihilism Today
  A slideshow talk that starts from the question "do communities sustain themselves in nothingness?" to propose a resignification of the concept through a playful journey through a selection of texts on nihilism, its history and its different types.
  Enriqueta, Calafou

• Uninstalling psychiatry and psychology: hack the system
  Analysis of psychiatry and psychology as extraordinarily successful proprietary programs in our time and geography, and not by chance. Proposal to uninstall them as a lever for radicalization.
  Vaya Valla

Technological, Food and Bodily Sovereignty

• Altranet — Critical thinking lab for collectively surviving the fall of the internet
  A workshop to understand how commercial internet will disappear, explore what we will lose when that happens and get to know alternative communication protocols: Morse, Data 2 Sound, SSTV, Bluetooth, LoRa. A collaboration between Donestech and Startdown Lab.
  https://donestech.net/

• Who holds the machete? AI, Land and Common Software
  AI is today a tool of power: either we ignore it while it traverses us, or we learn to govern it from the community. A journey from the data centers that dry our rivers to the language models that protect seeds and languages. Come to debate how to move from Luddite resistance to community digital self-defense.
  Geekshabeka, Calafou

• Artificial intelligence: play the game or break the deck
  Margarita Padilla traces the history of artificial intelligence to explain in an accessible way how it works, the fallacies of technological solutionists and the dangers hidden in biases and the delegation of decision-making. But it's not just about fighting for better regulations: we need to dispute digital policies, defend and build the public and the common. We need to accept friction, get our hands dirty. Take the machine apart and put it back together.
  Margarita Padilla

• Platohedro — Art and technology for the Good Life
  A collaborative non-profit creative platform based in Medellín, Colombia. Since 2004 it has been dedicated to artistic creation, experimentation, free culture and alternative pedagogies, guided by the philosophy of Buen Vivir and Buen Conocer.
  https://platohedro.org/

• Public activity, ActivityPub!
  Public cultural institutions (museums, archives, art centers) are barely present on the Fediverse, leaving out authors, artists and activists who don't want to depend on private networks. The proposal is to draft a collective text, collect citizen signatures and put pressure on culture-related institutions to make the transition through open protocols like ActivityPub.
  Victor Sobtech

• Workshop on technoethical tools with SomNúvol, giants and beans
  The "Guide to technoethical tools" and the "Game of Technological Giants" as tools to trigger debate on which tools we use and our relationship with surveillance capitalism. A practical workshop with the idea that participants can replicate or adapt it.
  https://femprocomuns.coop/ / https://somnuvol.coop/

• Weaving Local Food Systems in the digital age
  The workshop proposes exploring how digital tools (seed catalogs, climate monitoring apps, knowledge exchange platforms) can be integrated with traditional agricultural practices — seed conservation, communal plantings, land stewardship — to strengthen the biocultural diversity of local food systems.
  https://www.upf.edu/web/diverse

Permacomputing

• An e-bike for the mind: how to give new life to a 20-year-old laptop
  A walkthrough of the steps needed to repair a 2004 Thinkpad and turn it into a useful tool: cleaning, repair, hardware and software choices. The result is an offline-first computer with modern software, designed for privacy, focus and efficiency.

• NFC Clinic and Decoration Station
  A practical session exploring NFC (Near Field Communication) technology as a tool for a sovereign and tactile network. These cheap, reusable chips can carry your website, a location-specific message, an intranet access point… without platforms or intermediaries, accessible with a phone tap. Learn about its possibilities and decorate your own chip as a pin or pendant to take with you: a physical node you can pass to whoever you want.

• Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism
  Hacktivism and free software have uncritically embraced ideas like progress, technological neutrality or the idealization of the digital, inadvertently reproducing technocapitalist propaganda. The talk proposes radicalizing these discourses: questioning the very concept of technology from an anticapitalist and degrowth perspective, understanding the digital era as a colonialist and extractivist project.
  https://critical-switch.org/

F*** big techs

• Proyecto Una — The virality of evil
  Critical analysis of how disinformation and hate speech spread virally on social networks and digital platforms. Proyecto UNA is a writing collective with the mission of unmasking the new forms of fascism hiding under an apparently innocuous symbolism and recognizing the feminist alliances forged in the heat of pixels.
  https://pantube.tv/proyecto-una/

• Technogenocide and other maps — Florencia Brizuela and Lucía Egaña
  In this brief workshop we will approach the concept of "technogenocide", seeking to expand and/or rethink it. Through participatory dynamics we will try to map how our knowledge about geopolitical technogenocide situations is distributed, also seeking to recognize acts of resistance.

• The material dimension of clouds — Pluriversidad Nómada
  A participatory session in which we will think about the various forms that the material dimension of clouds and technologies presented as immaterial are taking. Together with the publication "The material dimension of clouds" (2024), we will seek to expand the questions that arise to end with a reflection on wounded cartographies.
  https://pluriversidadnomada.net/

• Demonetizing hate speech
  Processes to demonetize hate speech on the platform and methodologies to automate the detection of hate speech in the context of the Spanish state.
  Col·lectiva Abosat

Performance and Experimental

• Improvised body music circle
  An invitation to an immersive and improvised musical experience using voice, body percussion and movement. Inspired by rhythmic practices from around the world: call and response singing, clapping games and circle singing traditions.

• Chimerical Visions (Group of Studies Twisted Technologies — Malén Iturri, Marzia Matarese, Rafael Frazão, +++)
  A collective workshop that proposes exploring the territory of Calafou through the microworld, combining microscopy and tactile perception to question the primacy of vision. Guided by cyborg narratives and bacterial symbiogenesis, participants experience the continuity between place, body and matter, understanding microscopic vision as a subversive technology.

• Fanzine kiosk — La Sènia Amagada
  A table with the fanzines of the La Sènia Amagada project where you can approach, browse, get information and acquire the materials. An open and playful space to get to know the project up close.

• Mobile fanzine station
  A mobile co-creation and express printing station for fanzines for local or postal distribution, using reappropriated materials for visual collages, handcrafted writing and other creative techniques. Also a demo of a free fanzine layout and pre-press tool, currently in development.

• Stickers and archive/game stand
  A space to sit, print stickers and leave a memento of the encounters in an arcade box during breaks. Or a badTrans installation (stickers and radio station) with Ada and Bobby to remember and transmit files.

• Speculative fiction workshop, feminist futurotopias and Altranet
  A workshop to imagine other possible ecosystems by weaving relationships between ourselves, machines and living ecosystems. A collective exploration of what the world could look like after the disappearance of commercial internet.

• Catastrófico — speculative circuit of the Mutant Reserve of the Anoia
  A transmedia speculative fiction project that explores the possible futures of our environment. Families and people of all ages design mutant beings resulting from the transformations of the ecosystem of Calafou and the Anoia Basin — a territory marked by centuries of industrial impact. The creatures created are incorporated into the Mutant Reserve through a geocaching activity.
  https://catastropic.cat

• Costume and comic workshop for children, made by children

• You can participate in Hack The Earth as an attendee to the talks and workshops.
• You can also participate by offering a workshop or talk related to this year's theme.
• We will have a limited capacity of 150 people.

If you are interested in attending HTE 2026, please register here and indicate your preferences (days, needs, accommodation, meals, economic capacity). If you are interested in proposing a workshop, a talk or a performance, please also register your proposal here.

Accessibility
Calafou is a space with significant physical accessibility limitations: it has stairs, uneven stone floors, slopes and areas under renovation. We are aware of these difficulties and want to be transparent about the characteristics of the environment so that each person can assess whether they can participate according to their needs. Despite these limitations, we have welcomed people with all types of functional diversities and we do what is possible to accommodate the specific needs of each participant. In the registration form you will find a space where you can indicate your particular needs, and we will contact you to find solutions within our possibilities.
If you have any questions or suggestions about what additional information would be useful to include in this section, please don't hesitate to contact us: calafou at riseup dot net

We have closed registrations to avoid being overwhelmed. Please do not share the event further, as we will not be able to accommodate more people.
That said, if anyone would like to drop by during the day to attend activities or workshops without needing to eat or sleep at Calafou, they are very welcome to come and join in freely. Simply follow the agenda and the signage on site.

Pets:

Please do not bring your pets. We have given permission to some participants to bring theirs, provided they are always kept on a lead and under their responsibility at all times, but we cannot welcome any more animals. There will be many children at the gathering, and animals such as cats and chickens already live at Calafou and must be respected.
Thank you for your understanding!