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==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | ||
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+ | ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 by FoAM.Earth | ||
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+ | We spent two weeks at the ASU campus, inquiring about existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. We interrogated existing myths underlying contemporary lifestyles and re-imagined counter-myths that could be more attuned to the desert environment. From these myths we created a series of propositions to prototype as embodied experiences and publications in 2018. | ||
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+ | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary modes of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations, | ||
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+ | Further notes on: [[futuring]] | [[propositions]] | [[resonances]] | ||
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+ | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
+ | Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\ | ||
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+ | (& Nik Gaffney behind the camera) | ||
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+ | === D&S themes === | ||
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+ | __**Desertification**__ | ||
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+ | * Everything shrivels up and erodes into dust; desertification related to ecology and culture (intergenerational memory) | ||
+ | * Humans come and go | ||
+ | * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations | ||
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+ | __**Probabilistic Future Preparedness**__ | ||
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+ | * Phoenix holding onto permanence | ||
+ | * Civilisations with expiration dates (one moment or slow subsiding) | ||
+ | * Prehearsals of obsolescence | ||
+ | * Urban desert / urban wilderness | ||
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+ | __**Attunement**__ | ||
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+ | * material wonder & wander | ||
+ | * layered time, massive scale | ||
+ | * beyond human relationships | ||
+ | * solitude and indifference | ||
+ | * (i)nertness | ||
+ | * naming | ||
+ | * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | ||
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+ | __**Vampiric and zombie utopias**__ | ||
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+ | * Shadows | ||
+ | * Ghost towns | ||
+ | * Haunted utopias | ||
+ | * Troubled past | ||
+ | * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | ||
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+ | === core questions === | ||
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+ | * **What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the region? | ||
+ | * What/how to extrapolate local conditions to other deserts and environments on their way to become deserts? | ||
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+ | * **What does a thalient laboratory in the desert look like?** | ||
+ | * How to translate animist attitudes into worldviews compatible with contemporary techno-materialist societies? | ||
+ | * How to (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/power? | ||
+ | * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' | ||
+ | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? | ||
+ | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? | ||
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+ | * **What might urban futures in the American South West look like?** | ||
+ | * How to turn zombie/ | ||
+ | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | ||
+ | * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | ||
+ | * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like? | ||
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+ | {{> | ||
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+ | === hypotheses === | ||
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+ | * We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) with a change of mindset/ | ||
+ | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. | ||
+ | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, | ||
+ | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | ||
+ | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | ||
+ | * We need a new form of geomancy | ||
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+ | * We can become human receptors and listening devices. | ||
+ | * We practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing to help us attune to our surroundings. | ||
+ | * At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. | ||
+ | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) | ||
+ | * Our language can liquefy | ||
+ | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | ||
+ | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work | ||
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+ | * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, | ||
+ | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | ||
+ | * Objectives obscure progress | ||
+ | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | ||
+ | * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias | ||
+ | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | ||
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+ | === methods === | ||
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+ | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, | ||
+ | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | ||
+ | * walking | ||
+ | * fieldwork | ||
+ | * inquiry (critical, embodied...) | ||
+ | * experiential futures and speculative design | ||
+ | * action research | ||
+ | * contemporary rituals and peak experiences | ||
+ | * contemplative practices and attunement | ||
+ | * writing | ||
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+ | ===stray photons=== | ||
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- | ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 | ||
- | ==== reading ==== | ||
- | * A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning - Marcus Coates | ||
- | * Point Omega - Don DeLillo | ||
- | * Vilém Flusser - Into the Universe of Technical Images | ||