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| === The Flotilla === | ==== The Flotilla ==== |
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| | Scenario 2 of 4 in response to the question: How do we work together on interesting things? (as part of a [[scenario planning]] exercise at FoAM for [[future_preparedness]]) |
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| Scenario 2 of 4 in response to the question: How do we work together on interesting things? (as part of a scenario planning exercise at FoAM) | |
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| (axis: collective vision and full availability) | (axis: collective vision and full availability) |
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| {{http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1246/5133600371_41b4e25515.jpg}} | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/carthalis/5133600371/}} |
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| Image link: [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/carthalis/|Carthalis Rossini's Flickr page]] | Image link: [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/carthalis/5133600371/in/set-72157625159590111/|Carthalis Rossini's "Snow Crash" set]] |
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| The world around the flotilla: There are people on the move, migrating across continents and towards mega-cities. The world is awash in information, although proliferation of technology keeps getting into bubbles and crises depending on the oscillating availability of physical resources and cheap labour needed to produce the necessary hardware. A whole range of syndromes (or abilities) keep appearing, as a result of information overload and attention deficit. The insecurity and turbulence are paired with a continued rise in conservatism and an ever increasing bureaucratisation of life and culture. The security theatre keeps adding new props in its effects-range and performing its brutal, splatter-punk scenes on the streets of major cities. More and more people work from home, either due to their environmental concerns, or astronomically expensive fossil fuels, or because a disfunctional infrastructure (that is either overly crowded or non-functional). The technologies for distributed collaboration and augmented reality are getting better each day. Many people outsource menial tasks to either virtual assistants, crowds or artificial companions. Culture and politics are increasingly dominated by rampant consumerism and capitalism, causing a hollowing out of opportunities for experimentation and alternatives. | The world around the flotilla: There are people on the move, migrating across continents and towards mega-cities. The world is awash in information, although proliferation of technology keeps getting into bubbles and crises depending on the oscillating availability of physical resources and cheap labour needed to produce the necessary hardware. A whole range of syndromes (or abilities) keep appearing, as a result of information overload and attention deficit. The insecurity and turbulence are paired with a continued rise in conservatism and an ever increasing bureaucratisation of life and culture. The security theatre keeps adding new props in its effects-range and performing its brutal, splatter-punk scenes on the streets of major cities. More and more people work from home, either due to their environmental concerns, or astronomically expensive fossil fuels, or because a disfunctional infrastructure (that is either overly crowded or non-functional). The technologies for distributed collaboration and augmented reality are getting better each day. Many people outsource menial tasks to either virtual assistants, crowds or artificial companions. Culture and politics are increasingly dominated by rampant consumerism and capitalism, causing a hollowing out of opportunities for experimentation and alternatives. |
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| In this possible future, a cultural organisation with members and cells around the world decides to lift its anchor. There is no security of funding or the status of artists as independent operators. The arts have become radically bureaucratised, reaching Kafka-esque proportions. The cost of living is prohibitively expensive, especially for people without steady jobs and living far away from their families. Individual artistic careers are impossible to attain, except for the select few artists who serve the tastes of the rich and famous. Universities have become machines for producing papers, but education and research happen elsewhere – in alternative, ad-hoc spaces, in collectives of people eager to learn. Technologists are either brainwashed into a-moral creatures serving the capitalist machinery, or drop out and become sought after hackers, feeding technological resistance movements... Environmentalists are disillusioned by the global apathy and are either growing more radical, or attempt to infiltrate the political and economic systems, just to be slowly swallowed and transformed by them. Small groups of people retreat into a bucolic mirage of intentional communities and village life, where permaculture and new age intermingle into a somewhat escapist mixture. | In this possible future, The Resilients guild with members and cells around the world decides to lift its anchor. There is no security of funding or the status of artists as independent operators. The arts have become radically bureaucratised, reaching Kafka-esque proportions. The cost of living is prohibitively expensive, especially for people without steady jobs and living far away from their families. Individual artistic careers are impossible to attain, except for the select few artists who serve the tastes of the rich and famous. Universities have become machines for producing papers, but education and research happen elsewhere – in alternative, ad-hoc spaces, in collectives of people eager to learn. Technologists are either brainwashed into a-moral creatures serving the capitalist machinery, or drop out and become sought after hackers, feeding technological resistance movements... Environmentalists are disillusioned by the global apathy and are either growing more radical, or attempt to infiltrate the political and economic systems, just to be slowly swallowed and transformed by them. Small groups of people retreat into a bucolic mirage of intentional communities and village life, where permaculture and new age intermingle into a somewhat escapist mixture. |
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| The members of the cultural organisation became tired of fighting the windmills and see that the only way forward is to fully commit themselves to the collective vision they've been cultivating over the years and take their motto seriously: they decide to grow their own world: The flotilla. | The members of the Resilients became tired of fighting the windmills and see that the only way forward is to fully commit themselves to the collective vision they've been cultivating over the years and begin growing their own world: The flotilla |
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| The flotilla is a distributed, semi-nomadic troupe sharing a collective vision of the world and their place in it. The vision is emergent and inclusive: it bubbles up from the personalities and activities of its members, but it is more than a sum of its parts – it is the ethos of the group, that bursts from every pore of its matter, responding and adapting to its continuously changing conditions. The flotilla is a a melting pot of cultures and species, renegades and entrepreneurial spirits. Some of them live and work in close physical proximity, perhaps a boat (or a collection of rafts) floating on the rising seas, or a shifting colony resembling an ant hill. Others are distributed around the world, physically distant but otherwise fully present and engaged -sharing the benefits and commitments of the group. Every flotilla member is equipped with a set of (scavenged) augmented reality and nano-technological tools, allowing them full sensory interaction with their team-mates across the globe. Their families – including children, pets and plants are equally connected and participating in the life and work of the flotilla. Access to information and technology is open and free (although this might not be the case everywhere in the world). This is a precondition to the flotilla being able to work in a distributed manner. | The flotilla is a distributed, semi-nomadic troupe sharing a collective vision of the world and their place in it. The vision is emergent and inclusive: it bubbles up from the personalities and activities of its members, but it is more than a sum of its parts – it is the ethos of the group, that bursts from every pore of its matter, responding and adapting to its continuously changing conditions. The flotilla is a a melting pot of cultures and species, renegades and entrepreneurial spirits. Some of them live and work in close physical proximity, perhaps a boat (or a collection of rafts) floating on the rising seas, or a shifting colony resembling an ant hill. Others are distributed around the world, physically distant but otherwise fully present and engaged -sharing the benefits and commitments of the group. Every flotilla member is equipped with a set of (scavenged) augmented reality and nano-technological tools, allowing them full sensory interaction with their team-mates across the globe. Their families – including children, pets and plants are equally connected and participating in the life and work of the flotilla. Access to information and technology is open and free (although this might not be the case everywhere in the world). This is a precondition to the flotilla being able to work in a distributed manner. |
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| Images on http://pinterest.com/deziluzija/resilients-the-flotilla/ | Images on http://pinterest.com/deziluzija/resilients-the-flotilla/ |
| | pdf of pinterest: {{:resilients:the-flotilla.pdf|}} |
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| Notes from design session: | ====Notes from design session==== |
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| * augmented reality important | * augmented reality important |
| * there is no (cultural) funding for the whole, but there might be some for the projects, where we partner with funding bodies along the way | * there is no (cultural) funding for the whole, but there might be some for the projects, where we partner with funding bodies along the way |
| * artist status doesn't matter, as the community and the vision generate income for all | * artist status doesn't matter, as the community and the vision generate income for all |
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| | ==== Various Documentation ==== |
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| | * preparing for the prehearsal [[Flotilla Survival Guide]] |
| | * [[resilients:Flotilla shiplog|ship's log]] kept during prehersal |
| | * post-prehersal [[resilients:Flotilla Debrief|debrief notes]] and interviews with participants: <html><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F83443973"></iframe></html> |
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