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| Method: Begin with looking at plants more deeply, closely & open-mindedly (1); move onto stories, games, education, infiltration, rehearsal, living, celebrating, slowing down, inventing futures with plants as organisational principles. | Method: Begin with looking at plants more deeply, closely & open-mindedly (1); move onto stories, games, education, infiltration, rehearsal, living, celebrating, slowing down, inventing futures with plants as organisational principles. |
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| (1) Collecting seeds, plants, movies, books, music... & learning from them; inviting botanists and gardeners and learning from them; experimenting with plants - indoors, in gardens, on abandoned sites; translating plants signals into sensory stimuli for humans (a smell microphone); making fire, food, clothing and shelter out of plants; taking care of plants; surrounding ourselves with plants; enjoying their scent, colour & flavour; photographing, drawing and simulating plants; ingesting psycho-active plants; working on a botany of imaginary solutions (patabotany); modelling future (scenarios) based on plants as organisational principles, while finding ways to satisfy our physiological and psychological needs; rehearsing botanic culture - simulation, storytelling, ornamentation; | (1) Collecting seeds, plants, movies, books, music... & learning from them; inviting botanists and gardeners and learning from them; experimenting with plants - indoors, in gardens, on abandoned sites; translating plant-signals into sensory stimuli for humans (a smell microphone); making fire, food, clothing and shelter out of plants; taking care of plants; surrounding ourselves with plants; enjoying their scent, colour & flavour; photographing, drawing and simulating plants; ingesting psycho-active plants; working on a botany of imaginary solutions (patabotany); modelling future (scenarios) based on plants as organisational principles, while finding ways to satisfy our physiological and psychological needs; rehearsing botanic culture - simulation, storytelling, ornamentation; |
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| (A few introspective notes)How? Participation and entanglement, watch out with intentionality... Right and wrong are a part of the same whole, pay more attention to observation. Learn by doing & experiencing. Kama Yoga - working towards a particular end through a set of repeated movements. Taking care of something / someone; working on rhythms and seasonality (routine & suspension of normalised behaviours; integrity of the work - what do we do & not do? / recycling / using toxic materials / balancing energies... ;. "THE PRACTICE" (buddhism). Moving from making things to growing systems. Total lifecycles of our works.; prototyping & testing with different players; it shouldn't feel like we're working 'hard' - knowing when not to do things; | (A few introspective notes)How? Participation and entanglement, watch out with intentionality... Right and wrong are a part of the same whole, pay more attention to observation. Learn by doing & experiencing. Kama Yoga - working towards a particular end through a set of repeated movements. Taking care of something / someone; working on rhythms and seasonality (routine & suspension of normalised behaviours; integrity of the work - what do we do & not do? / recycling / using toxic materials / balancing energies... ;. "THE PRACTICE" (buddhism). Moving from making things to growing systems. Total lifecycles of our works.; prototyping & testing with different players; it shouldn't feel like we're working 'hard' - knowing when not to do things; |
| ==== HPI (Human-Plant-Interaction) ==== | ==== HPI (Human-Plant-Interaction) ==== |
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| Exercise in [[HPI]] - things that didn't exist but could... ; how do you make people feel like plants (maybe a whole forest, rather than an individual plant); looking at longer time-scales; a shirt that grows on you; rooftop gardens that grow new roofs; butoh dancer next to a cactus plant - how do we as humans get into slower time cycles?; how do plant fluids / human fluids circulate? How to make a HPI tactile?; plants as organisational principles - looking at large scale eco-system shifts (deforestation, custody of the amazon rainforest; recolonisation - who is responsible for natural resources (buying up, or public preservation - is privatisation ok?); if 1/2 of cuba would be covered by solar cells, there would be enough energy for the whole world; hydrogen economy - plants are storing energy in form of sugars (batteries) - human society mimics plant structure on a global level; Hildegard von Bingen & St. Frances - a spiritual element of HPI; ethnobiology and development of human mind; a pre-historic viriditas' | Exercise in [[HPI]] - things that didn't exist but could... ; how do you make people feel like plants (maybe a whole forest, rather than an individual plant); looking at longer time-scales; a shirt that grows on you; rooftop gardens that grow new roofs; butoh dancer next to a cactus plant - how do we as humans get into slower time cycles?; how do plant fluids / human fluids circulate? How to make a HPI tactile?; plants as organisational principles - looking at large scale eco-system shifts (deforestation, custody of the amazon rainforest; recolonisation - who is responsible for natural resources (buying up, or public preservation - is privatisation ok?); if 1/2 cuba would be covered by solar cells, there would be enough energy for the whole world (but still a distribution problem); hydrogen economy - plants are storing energy in form of sugars (batteries) - human society mimics plant structure on a global level; Hildegard von Bingen & St. Frances - a spiritual element of HPI; ethnobiology and development of human mind; a pre-historic viriditas' |
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| ==== Workshops ==== | ==== Workshops ==== |
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| See [[luminous]] [[media_ecologies]]) | See [[/luminous/start|luminous green]], [[media_ecologies_workshop]] |
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| Purpose of workshops - to raise awareness, to (un)make things (watch out with usage of materials - how does found material influence shape?) | Purpose of workshops - to raise awareness, to (un)make things (watch out with usage of materials - how does found material influence shape?) |
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