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 ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ====
 ... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017
+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-imagining counter-myths more attuned to the desert environment. From these myths we created a series of propositions to prototype as embodied experiences and publications in 2018.
+This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary mode of exploring the field were structured and unstructured conversations, [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|Causal Layered Analysis]] and an experimental open space workshop. Occasionally we would venture beyond the campus, guided by our very own 'artists' sherpa' Ron Broglio. We explored the the Paradise Hills, the Superstitions and the Shadow Mountain; Papago and Moeur Parks; the Museum of the lost Dutchman and the Pueblo Grande ruins. We experienced a silent Full Moon walk with the Museum of Walking and found a site for FoAM's audio-walk in March 2018. Attuning to the academic environment inevitably also involved paperwork and meeting students and faculty. We gave a lecture and treated the students to a clandestine FoAM Apero. Amidst the various activities on campus, we were temporarily adopted into our collaborators' family life, which allowed us to experience (among other things) our first Thanksgiving feast.
+Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\
+Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)\\
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+=== Guiding themes ===
+__**Desertification**__
+  * 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
+__**Probabilistic Future Preparedness**__
+  * Phoenix holding onto permanence
+  * Civilisations with expiration dates (one moment or slow subsiding)
+  * Prehearsals of obsolescence
+  * Urban desert / urban wilderness
+__**Attunement**__
+  * material wonder & wander
+  * layered time, massive scale
+  * beyond human relationships
+  * solitude and indifference
+  * (i)nertness
+  * naming
+  * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation
+__**Vampiric and zombie utopias**__
+  * Shadows
+  * Ghost towns
+  * Haunted utopias
+  * Troubled past
+  * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability
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