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==== Futuring ==== | ===== Futuring ===== |
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An experiment in futurecrafting 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 South-West?"// and used the [[:futurist_fieldguide/causal_layered_analysis|Causal Layered Analysis]] to probe this question. The three critical uncertainties identified by the participants were **heat**, **water** and **tech industry**. The three tables below summarise the causes underlying each of the uncertainties, as well as possible alternatives specific to a speculative "Shadow Belmont" - a parallel present or possible future of an urban centre in Arizona. | |
| 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. |
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| <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 ==== |
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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, as well as possible alternatives specific to Shadow Belmont. |
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=== Heat === | === Heat === |
^ 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 | | ^ 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 === | === Water === |
^ 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 === |
^ 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| | ^ 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| |
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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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* 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're right on time!) | * Calling all late bloomers (you're right on time!) |
| * Sand of the Free, Sprawl of the Brave! |
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