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- | ==== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ==== | + | ===== dust & shadow - field trip #2 ===== |
- | ... dust trails | + | Nov/Dec 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]] | + | |
Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)\\ | ||
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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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- | === D&S themes === | + | Read more in [[https:// |
- | **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 | ||
+ | This field trip was an immersion in the academic life in Phoenix, specifically ASU's [[http:// | ||
- | **Probabilistic Future Preparedness** | + | Occasionally we would venture beyond campus, sometimes guided other times not. We wandered in [[https:// |
- | * Phoenix holding onto permanence | + | Along with the various activities on campus, we were temporarily adopted into our collaborators' |
- | * Civilisations | + | |
- | * Prehearsals of obsolescence | + | |
- | * Urban desert / urban wilderness | + | |
+ | See also [[https:// | ||
- | **Attunement** | + | Further notes on: [[concepts]] | [[futuring]] | [[experiments]] | [[publications]] | [[resonances]] |
- | * material wonder & wander | + | {{> |
- | * layered time, massive scale | + | |
- | * beyond human relationships | + | |
- | * solitude and indifference | + | |
- | * (i)nertness | + | |
- | * naming | + | |
- | * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | + | |
- | **Zombie utopias** | ||
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- | * Shadows | ||
- | * Ghost towns | ||
- | * Haunted utopias, vampiric utopias, parasitic 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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- | === hypotheses === | ||
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- | **We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) by changing 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 | ||
- | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries | ||
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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 | ||
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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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