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| - | ==== D&S themes ==== | ||
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| - | **Desertification** | ||
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| - | * Everything shrivels up and erodes into dust; desertification related to ecology and culture (intergenerational memory) | ||
| - | * Humans come and go | ||
| - | * (Engineering) mistakes cause large scale ecological transformations | ||
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| - | **Probabilistic Future Preparedness** | ||
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| - | * Phoenix holding onto permanence | ||
| - | * Civilisations with expiration dates (one moment or slow subsiding) | ||
| - | * Prehearsals of obsolescence | ||
| - | * Urban desert / urban wilderness | ||
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| - | **Attunement** | ||
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| - | * material wonder & wander | ||
| - | * layered time, massive scale | ||
| - | * beyond human relationships | ||
| - | * solitude and indifference | ||
| - | * (i)nertness | ||
| - | * naming | ||
| - | * conviviality with diverse entities, different lenses of interrelation | ||
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| - | **Zombie utopias** | ||
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| - | * Shadows | ||
| - | * Ghost towns | ||
| - | * Haunted utopias, vampiric utopias, parasitic utopias | ||
| - | * Troubled past | ||
| - | * Living but already dead (eg. Paradise City); planning for unsustainability | ||
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| - | ==== Core questions ==== | ||
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| - | **What are the (environmental) critical uncertainties in the region? | ||
| - | * What/how to extrapolate local conditions to other deserts and environments on their way to become deserts? | ||
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| - | **What does a thalient laboratory in the desert look like?** | ||
| - | * How to translate animist attitudes into worldviews compatible with contemporary techno-materialist societies? | ||
| - | * How to (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/power? | ||
| - | * What arts, sciences and technologies become possible if we widen the ' | ||
| - | * Should we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? | ||
| - | * How do we speak of relations as well as things? | ||
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| - | **What might urban futures in the American South West look like?** | ||
| - | * How to turn zombie/ | ||
| - | * What would a banishing ritual for haunted utopias be like? | ||
| - | * Why attempt to build cities in the desert? | ||
| - | * What would a pre-enactment for futures of Phoenix look like? | ||
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| - | ==== Hypotheses ==== | ||
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| - | **We can adapt or mitigate climate chaos (etc.) by changing mindset/ | ||
| - | * Art can initiate, amplify or test this change. | ||
| - | * We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, | ||
| - | * Any technological solutions will be perverted by existing dominant ideologies (and vice versa) | ||
| - | * Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert geological and architectural markers | ||
| - | * We need a new form of geomancy | ||
| - | * With can uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries | ||
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| - | **We can become human receptors and listening devices** | ||
| - | * We practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing to help us attune to our surroundings. | ||
| - | * At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. | ||
| - | * We tread lightly seeing with new eyes. We witness and weave threads of connection with other people and places (FoAM) | ||
| - | * Our language can liquefy | ||
| - | * We communicate to connect, not dissect | ||
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| - | **The desert invites unencumbered experimentation, | ||
| - | * It is possible to thrive in uncertainty | ||
| - | * Objectives obscure progress | ||
| - | * We should move from social contracts to natural contracts | ||
| - | * It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for new eutopias | ||
| - | * Neo-reaction and new age are each other' | ||
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| - | ==== Methods ==== | ||
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| - | ... vaporous thoughts condensed into propositions, | ||
| - | * seeing, listening, tasting, smelling, experiencing (sensing & activating) | ||
| - | * walking | ||
| - | * fieldwork | ||
| - | * inquiry (critical, embodied...) | ||
| - | * experiential futures and speculative design | ||
| - | * action research | ||
| - | * contemporary rituals and peak experiences | ||
| - | * contemplative practices and attunement | ||
| - | * writing | ||
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