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- | ==== Futuring: uncertainties | + | ===== Futuring |
- | Core question: What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the American South-West? | ||
- | Technique | + | A futurecrafting experiment conducted in November 2017. We started from the current conditions and environmental challenges in the region. We asked, //" |
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+ | ==== Layered uncertainties ==== | ||
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+ | The three critical uncertainties identified by the participants were **heat**, **water** and **tech industry**. The tables below summarise the causes underlying each of the uncertainties, | ||
=== Heat === | === Heat === | ||
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^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); | ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); | ||
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=== Water === | === Water === | ||
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^ Causes | Weak public infrastructure and political inaction; growing population; economic valuation; water rights and food sovereignty |Variable abundance & commons management (stewarding, | ^ Causes | Weak public infrastructure and political inaction; growing population; economic valuation; water rights and food sovereignty |Variable abundance & commons management (stewarding, | ||
^ Worldviews | Individual self-reliance and DIY; libertarian ethos, free market | Sociality of a coven/ | ^ Worldviews | Individual self-reliance and DIY; libertarian ethos, free market | Sociality of a coven/ | ||
- | ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Godless (Guns & God); sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world (time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy| | + | ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Godless (Guns & God); sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world, time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy| |
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=== Tech industry === | === Tech industry === | ||
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^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, | ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, | ||
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+ | ==== Shadow Belmont ==== | ||
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+ | ... backstory of the shadow belmont world (...) | ||
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+ | We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. –McKenzie Wark | ||
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=== Saguaro Times === | === Saguaro Times === | ||
- | Headlines from Saguaro Times, | + | //Headlines from "Saguaro Times", daily newspaper in " |
== Commons news == | == Commons news == | ||
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* Shade grown coffee (and children) are rich, full and robust | * Shade grown coffee (and children) are rich, full and robust | ||
* Calling all late bloomers (you' | * Calling all late bloomers (you' | ||
+ | * Sand of the Free, Sprawl of the Brave! | ||
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+ | Further notes on: [[resonances]] | [[experiments]] | [[fieldtrip_2]] | ||
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