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--- dust_and_shadow:futuring [2018-01-25 02:14] – maja
+++ dust_and_shadow:futuring [2019-08-30 18:11] – [Futuring] maja
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-==== Futuring: uncertainties ====
+===== Futuring =====
-Core question: What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the American South-West?
-Technique used to probe the question: [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|CLA]]
+A futurecrafting experiment conducted in November 2017. We started from the current conditions and environmental challenges in the region. We asked, //"What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the American Southwest?"// and used the [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|Causal Layered Analysis]] to probe this question. The result was a backstory of "Shadow Belmont", a speculative urban centre in Arizona in a parallel present or possible future.
+<blockquote>Pero a nosotros no nos dan miedo las ruinas, porque llevamos un mundo nuevo en nuestros corazones. Ese mundo está creciendo en este instante.
+<cite> Buenaventura Durruti </cite></blockquote>
+==== Layered uncertainties ====
+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, as well as possible alternatives specific to Shadow Belmont.
 === Heat ===
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 ^ Myths | Phoenix; Prometheus; Wild West, Desert is a void (purity of wilderness); Noble Savage | Desert Attunement; American Gods; Evolutionary architecture; Long temporality of nothingness followed by abrupt change, return to nothingness |
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 === Water ===
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 ^ Myths | Easy Rider, Godless (Guns & God); sufficiency and hubris| Carnivàle, Dionisian world, time marked by feasts & silences; blooming, flowing, absorption, ecstasy|
-{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/39069871571/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\
+{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/39069871571/in/album-72157681429258454/ ?maxwidth=1000}}\\
 === Tech industry ===
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 ^ Myths | (Cowboy) Missionaries, John Ford films, Pioneers, Atomism of the isolated subject; Idleness is the devil's playground; Existential quests and transcendence in the desert | City & the city, The Laundry Files, The New Renaissance, dissolving, trance, enthusiasm|
-{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/24209186507/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\
+{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/24209186507/in/album-72157681429258454/ ?maxwidth=1000}}\\
+==== Shadow Belmont ====
+... backstory of the shadow belmont world (...)
+<blockquote>
+We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. –McKenzie Wark
+</blockquote>
 === Saguaro Times ===
-//Headlines from "Saguaro Times", daily newspaper in a future/parallel Phoenix//
+//Headlines from "Saguaro Times", daily newspaper in "Shadow Belmont"//
 == Commons news ==
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   * Shade grown coffee (and children) are rich, full and robust
   * Calling all late bloomers (you're right on time!)
+  * Sand of the Free, Sprawl of the Brave!
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-Further notes on: [[resonances]] | [[propositions]] | [[fieldtrip_2]]
+Further notes on: [[resonances]] | [[experiments]] | [[fieldtrip_2]]