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 === Desert Attunement === === Desert Attunement ===
  
-Field trip for locals and travellers to experientially attune to the desert environment. Through "durational desert abiding" we'll explore the embodied sense of layered time, observing & listening, material wonder & wander, solitude & (in)difference.+Field trip for locals and travellers to experientially attune to the desert environment. Through "durational desert abiding" we'll explore the embodied sense of layered time, observing & listening, material wonder & wander, solitude & (in)difference. (March 7-12)
  
 Questions: What could be the different ways and means to experience layered time in the desert? What if we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? What does "brutal mysticism" in the desert look like?  Questions: What could be the different ways and means to experience layered time in the desert? What if we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? What does "brutal mysticism" in the desert look like? 
  
-Proposition:  We need to spend time in the desert to experientially attune to the environment. We can attune to the desert without romanticising wilderness or drawing a hard line between the desert and urban civilisation. We tread lightly and see the desert with new eyes. +Proposition:  We need to spend time in the desert to experientially attune to the environment. Communing rather than examining. We can attune to the desert without romanticising wilderness or drawing a hard line between the desert and urban civilisation. We tread lightly and see the desert with new eyes. 
  
  
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 === Thalient Lab === === Thalient Lab ===
  
-A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March 8-18 2018)+A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March 12-23 2018)
  
 Proposition: There are ways and means to communicate with entities we share the planet with. At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. One of the means to establish contact could be through technological mediation  Proposition: There are ways and means to communicate with entities we share the planet with. At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. One of the means to establish contact could be through technological mediation 
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 Atmosphere Atmosphere
-  * new life: leaves, blossoms +  * new life: leaves, blossoms (some Sonoran [[http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/fieldguide/plantae/sonoran_desert_flora.html|desert flora]]) 
-  * green and yellow colour+  * green, yellow, purple, red colours
   * freshness of spring and bitter energy of new growth   * freshness of spring and bitter energy of new growth
   * purity of white ('sacrificial virgins')   * purity of white ('sacrificial virgins')
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 Food & Drink Food & Drink
   * breaking and sharing food together, abundance in collectivity   * breaking and sharing food together, abundance in collectivity
-  * end of winter foods in the desert (to research foods of the place)+  * end of winter foods in the desert (to research foods of the place; eg [[https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/health-wellness/spring-equinox-the-desert-is-reborn/|cholla buds]]), as well as dried/preserved seeds (for eating and planting), herbs, grains and flowers; pynion pine nuts, ocotillo flowers (tea), chia seeds, amaranth, sumac, sunflowers, mesquite flour, agave and aloe vera juice...)
   * water   * water
   * fresh, green, bitter   * fresh, green, bitter
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