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dust_and_shadow:futuring [2018-01-26 11:02] majadust_and_shadow:futuring [2019-08-30 18:11] – [Futuring] maja
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-==== Futuring ====+===== Futuring =====
  
-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 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 ==== 
 + 
 +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 === === 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 | ^ 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 ===
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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|  ^ 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, 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 ==== 
 + 
 +... 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>
  
  
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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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