the Café Society investigate possibilities for communication and dealing with information, and cook up visions about how our knowledge and the way we think is shaped by the medias we use. We see ourselves as a 'question, suggestion, discussion' platform, where problems are always possibilities, and solutions are always in flux.

Although the core team consists of 3 main actors, the stage is open for everyone and anyone, and we thrive in collaborative constellations.

Anthon Astrom, Mikael Prag and Lukas Zimmer, the initiators of the Café Society, initially came together in developing what came to be trails.
We created a Firefox extension that enables the Internet user to edit and print his/her own "web book". The key point of the project is the transformation of combined website fragments (texts and images) into a linear-layout printable booklet. With the click of a button, the web fragments become editable, and the booklet can be extended with personal content, notes etc. The structure of the book layout is clean, but offers enough basic flexibility for individuality.

With "SchplitZing" (working title), we develop in collaboration with Fabian Wegmüller and Nadine Wietlisbach an artist network, that allows people to exchange works, thoughts and interests, and to create relationships between them. The platform, that starts with a single portfolio project, grows into a network that animates authors to engage in collective authorship and transdisciplinary creations.

Where trails gives you an unobtrusive way to physically archive and structure your collected Internet info, collecthing attends to a few other needs.
This concept provides possibilities for collecthing, storing and arranging data in a visual and more intuitive way, sharing this data and collaborating with other users. The project is currently in it's late stage of development, and is taking shape with the help of a very select group of people. As soon as the application/service is stable enough we'll open up more, and if you'd be interested in taking part in the testing and discussing collecthing, please send us an email.