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

Resistance to Data Centres

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

• Le Nuage Etait Sous Nos pieds (The Cloud Was Under Our Feet)
  A research and activism collective that makes the materiality of digital infrastructures visible. They expose the environmental and social impacts of data centres and other technological mega-infrastructures, particularly in France. They trace submarine cables, data centres and the complicity of public authorities to understand what is set in motion when we touch our screens: what travels, pollutes, heats, digs and exploits. They maintain a participatory map of projects and resistance against data centres.
  https://lenuageetaitsousnospieds.org/

• Instituto LatinoAmericano de Terraformación - What to do if they plan to build a data centre in your community?
  A practical workshop on resistance strategies and community organising in the face of data centres and other technological mega-infrastructures being imposed on territories.
  https://terraforminglatam.net/datacenterboom-cuando-la-nube-se-instala-en-nuestro-territorio

• Speculative fiction writing workshop — a game to spark the imagination against data centres

Extractive Megaprojects

• 'Per la Conca' Collective
  An association made up of individuals and groups working to preserve, promote and revitalise the natural and cultural heritage of the Conca d'Òdena. It was founded to halt the construction of a large industrial estate and to propose alternatives centred on revitalising river, agricultural and forest spaces, seeking a model "for a living Conca".
  https://perlaconca.org/

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 Mycoporate 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 in Water: Microscopic Observations of Storms and Bodies of Water in La Chimba, Ecuador

Privacy and Security

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

• Organising Under the Authoritarian Storm
  This workshop explores new techniques of digital repression targeting Human Rights Defenders. We will share recent cases of espionage 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.

Defending Life and the Commons

• Between Community, Art and Science: Territorial Processes from the CICTA Experience (Ecuador)
  This workshop shares the processes that CICTA has developed in the territory, bringing together community work, art and science as practices for organisational strengthening and collective reflection. Drawing on situated experiences, a dialogue will open on how these crossings generate knowledge, memory and care for the territory, in conversation with community knowledge. The activity will be participatory, combining experience sharing and collective exchange.
  https://www.cicta.org/acerca-de/

• Flying Kites
  A kite-flying activity to monitor possible contamination of the territory.

• Rage Is Ours. A Political Emotion in Dispute
  Presentation of the book by Oriol Erausquin exploring rage as a political emotion and tool for social transformation. He is currently researching a doctoral thesis in sociology on far-right conspiracy theories, focused on the "Great Replacement" theory. He is known online for his political activity under the handle Infusión Ideológica.
  https://pantube.tv/infusion-ideologica/

• LISTENING TO THE EARTH. An Aesthetic, Ethical and Political Practice
  LA IN.QUIETA. Rehearsing ways of opening ourselves to perceiving nature as a living being, opening our 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 accounts and records of the experience of coming into contact with nature when we know ourselves to be part of it and relate to it with respect and loving attention.
  www.inquieta.cat

• Nihilism Today
  An illustrated talk starting from the question "can communities sustain themselves on nothing?" to propose a reframing of the concept through a playful and light-hearted journey through a selection of texts on nihilism, its history and its different forms. Duration: 1 hour with space for questions and dialogue.

Technological, Food and Bodily Sovereignty

• Altranet — Critical Thinking Lab for Collectively Surviving the Collapse of the Internet
  A workshop to understand how commercial internet will disappear, explore what we will lose when it does, and discover alternative communication protocols: Morse, Data 2 Sound, SSTV, Bluetooth, LoRa. A collaboration between Donestech and Startdown Lab.
  https://donestech.net/

• Weaving Local Food Systems in the Digital Age
  The workshop proposes exploring how digital tools (seed catalogues, climate monitoring apps, knowledge-sharing platforms) can be integrated with traditional agricultural practices — seed saving, communal planting, land stewardship — to strengthen the biocultural diversity of local food systems. The central premise is that communities are not passive recipients of technology, but active agents already combining the digital with the territorial. Together with participants, the workshop seeks to develop a shared framework for understanding and enhancing these synergies.

• Platohedro — Art and Technology for Buen Vivir (Good Living)
  A non-profit collaborative 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 (Good Knowing).
  https://platohedro.org/

• Workshop on Technoethical Tools with SomNúvol, Giants and Beans
  The "Guide to Technoethical Tools" and the "Game of the Tech Giants" as tools to spark debate about which tools we use and our relationship with surveillance capitalism. A practical workshop designed so that participants can replicate or adapt it. Since participants are already aware, we would focus on the alternatives.
  https://femprocomuns.coop/
  https://somnuvol.coop/

• 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 tap of your phone. Learn what possibilities it offers (including authentication and geolocation applications) and decorate your own chip as a pin or pendant to take away: a physical node you can pass on to anyone.

Permacomputing

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

• Technodiversity, Permacomputing and Anti-Capitalism
  Hacktivism and free software have uncritically adopted ideas such as progress, technological neutrality and the idealisation of the digital, inadvertently reproducing technocapitalist propaganda. In response, this talk proposes radicalising these discourses: questioning the very concept of technology from an anti-capitalist and degrowth perspective, understanding the digital age as a colonialist and extractivist project, in order to seek frameworks oriented towards the destruction of capitalism rather than the "liberation of code".
  https://critical-switch.org/

F*** Big Techs

• Proyecto Una - The Virality of Evil
  A critical analysis of how disinformation and hate speech spread virally through social networks and digital platforms. Proyecto UNA is a writing collective whose mission is both to unmask new forms of fascism hiding behind apparently harmless symbolism and to recognise and value the feminist alliances forged in the heat of pixels. From a popular and collective perspective, they investigate digital communities, new forms of internet propaganda and the relationship with technology. They are ready to laugh wholeheartedly from the barricade, because their lives are at stake.
  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 and see how our knowledge is distributed across situations of geopolitical technogenocide, while also recognising resistance. As Palestinian activist Leila Khaled states: "Where there is repression, there is resistance".

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

• Demonetising Hate Speech
  Processes for demonetising 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

• Circle of Improvised Body Music
  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, hand clapping games and circle singing traditions. Duration: 2 hours.

• Zine Kiosk — La Sènia Amagada
  A table with zines from the La Sènia Amagada project where visitors can browse, get informed and acquire materials. An open and playful space to discover the project up close.

• Mobile Zine Station
  A mobile station for co-creation and express printing of zines for local or postal distribution, using appropriated materials for visual collages, handcrafted writing and other creative techniques. Also a demo of a free pagination and pre-print tool for zines, currently in development. Participants can join at any time, contributing or discussing content that will form part of a zine (or several) on key HLT2026 themes, under a copyleft licence and collective authorship. The initiative stems from the pliegos.net project, a GAC (Cooperativised Activity Group) of femProcomuns.

• Workshop on Speculative Fiction, 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.

• Catastròpic is a transmedia speculative fiction project exploring the possible futures of our surroundings
  In the workshop Speculative Circuit of the Mutant Reserve of Anoia (RMA), families and people of all ages design mutant creatures born from the transformations of the Calafou ecosystem and the Anoia basin — a landscape shaped by centuries of industrial impact. The creatures are then added to the Mutant Reserve through a geocaching activity via observatori.calafou.org.
  https://catastropic.cat

• Costume and comic workshop for children, made by children

Programme (under construction)

Thursday 02 April

Friday 03 April

Saturday 04 April

Sunday 05 April

• 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

FORM

We do not have grants or budget, but we will look for ways to cover, as far as possible, travel and material costs for selected proposals. Regarding travel coverage for people participating in the program, we will only be able to cover short or cheap trips.
Base prices:

• 25€ per day (15€ breakfast/lunch/dinner + 5€ calafou maintenance costs + 5€ workshops)
• 90€ for 4 days

In the registration form you will be able to indicate your economic capacity. We understand that everyone's situation is different and we want to facilitate everyone's participation.
Contribution options:

• I can pay the full price
• I want to make a solidarity contribution to cover the costs of the workshop facilitators and Calafou's organization
• I need financial help and can contribute a smaller amount
  In the form you will be able to specify the amount you can or want to contribute.