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 ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ====
-... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017
+... dust trails / transit / Nov 02017 by FoAM.Earth
-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.
+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.
-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.
+This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix. Our primary modes 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 campus, guided by our very own 'artists' sherpa'. 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 [[https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow-walk/|FoAM's audio-walk]]. Attuning to the academic environment inevitably involved paperwork, meetings with students and faculty. We gave a lecture and treated the visitors 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 many other things) our first Thanksgiving feast with the Moran-Nocek clans.
 Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\
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 === hypotheses ===
-  * The only way we can adapt or mitigate climate change and other environmental and cultural crises is with a change of mindset/worldview and myth. We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc. Art can initiate, amplify or test this change.
+  * We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) is with a change of mindset/worldview and the underlying myths and archetypes.
+    * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change.
+    * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc.
     * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa)
-    * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts
     * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers
     * We need a new form of geomancy
-    * Neo-reaction and new age are each other's flip-sides, collapsing complexity of uncertainty into platitudes
-  * We need (to become) human receptors and listening devices. Practice the craft of silence. Heterogeneous hearing. Tuning to the world. There are others listening too. We can hear each other if we pay attention.
+  * We can become human receptors and listening devices.
-    * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. Witnessing, weaving threads of connection with other places and other people (FoAM)
+    * We practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing to help us attune to our surroundings.
-    * Our language could liquefy
+    * 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
-    * We are uncovering sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries
+    * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries through our work
  * The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, yet the desert is also unforgiving
     * 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's flip-sides, collapsing complexity of uncertainty into platitudes
+=== methods ===
+... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, commonplaces and fieldguides by:
+  * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating)
+  * walking
+  * fieldwork
+  * inquiry (critical, embodied...)
+  * experiential futures and speculative design (e.g. designing an open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems
+  * action research
+  * contemporary rituals and peak experiences
+  * contemplative practices and attunement
+  * writing