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| //Pulvis et umbra sumus. We are but dust and shadow. –Horace// | //Pulvis et umbra sumus. We are but dust and shadow. –Horace// |
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| Dust and shadow is FoAM's contribution to a transdisciplinary research and residency programme at the ASU (Arizona State University), exploring environmental issues specific to the desert of the North-American Southwest. We combine philosophical inquiry with speculative design and action research to explore divergent approaches to desertification (both ecological and cultural), zombie-utopias, panpsychism, beyond-human relationships and probabilistic future preparedness. | Dust and Shadow is FoAM's contribution to a transdisciplinary research and residency programme at the ASU (Arizona State University) focused on environmental issues specific to the North-American Southwest. We combine philosophical inquiry with experiential futures and technological arts to explore existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. By addressing the mythical and experiential underpinnings of contemporary life in the desert, we invite emotional engagement with abstract concepts, such as desertification, climate weirding or attunement. We design participatory experiences and experimental publications, as evocative propositions for re-alignment of urban and desert ecosystems. |
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| In collaboration with The Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Laboratory of Critical Technics (LCT) and the Synthesis Lab of the Arizona State University (ASU). | In collaboration with The Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Desert Humanities Institute, Center for Philosophical technologies/Laboratory of Critical Technics (LCT) and the Synthesis Lab of the Arizona State University (ASU). |
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| | * photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157681429258454 |
| | * Dust and Shadow on FoAM's website: https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow/ |
| * fragments https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com | * fragments https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com |
| * photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157681429258454 | |
| * FoAM activity page: https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow/ | |
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| ==== Field trips ==== | ==== Timecycles ==== |
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| * [[dust and shadow/fieldtrip 1]] / FieldNotes #1: https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-1-48e94d02540b | Dust and Shadow is developed on-site in Arizona (three field trips for research, design and creation of public experiments) and online (publications, a wiki and an LP). The project concludes with a final event at the ASU in Phoenix/Tempe in the fall of 2019. |
| * [[dust and shadow/fieldtrip 2]] | |
| * fieldtrip 3 planned for March 2018 | |
| * fieldript 4 planned for spring 2019 | |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/zzkt/25435689083/}}\\ | * Spring 2017 (may/june): [[fieldtrip 1]], observations, questions, [[https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-1-48e94d02540b|field notes #1]], etc. \\ |
| | * Summer 2017 (july/august): articulating research [[concepts|questions]], [[resonances|literature]] research, mapping, etc.\\ |
| | * Fall 2017 (november/december): [[fieldtrip 2]], FoAM presentation/talk at LCT & Synthesis, experimental workshop, formulating [[experiments]] for experiments, planning [[publications]]\\ |
| ==== timecycles ==== | * Winter 2019 (february): writing, editorial and design for [[https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-2-3a4542feeecd|field notes #2]] and [[reader 1]] |
| | * Spring 2018 (march): [[fieldtrip 3]], prototyping and experiments: desert attunement trip, thalient lab, [[https://fo.am/activities/dust-and-shadow-soundwalk/|D&S soundwalk]], desert equinox ritual\\ |
| How all of this might unfold (TBC and subject to change without notice) | * Winter/Spring 2019: [[https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-3-af72c73a988e|field notes #3]], editorial and design [[reader 2]] and field notes booklet |
| | * Summer 2019: sound design for record release, exhibition design for Dust and Shadow reading room and acoustic ecology salon |
| * Spring 2017 (may/june): fieldtrip, observations, questions, travelogue, etc. \\ | * Fall 2019: Desert Humanities Launch, library exhibition opening and Dust & Shadow symposium\\ |
| * Summer 2017 (july/august): articulating research questions, literature research, mapping, etc.\\ | * + continuous online documentation\\ |
| * Fall 2017 (end november -> ~15th december): FoAM presentation/talk at LCT, research retreat, formulating hypotheses/propositions for experiments, commonplace publication pt1\\ | |
| * Spring 2018: temporary FoAM lab @ ASU: prototyping, experiments (first iteration), FoAM's 'injections' in (graduate) courses (?), commonplace publication pt2 (fieldguide for further experiments)\\ | |
| * Fall 2018 (or spring 2019): Second action research cycle, ending in a public experiment, printed publication (and possibly an 'exploded publication' in the form of an exhibition)\\ | |
| * (+ continuous online documentation)\\ | |
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| ====publication(s)==== | |
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| * in progress -> [[dust_and_shadow/reader_1]] | |
| * book and booklets as a [[propositions#book|proposition]] | |
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| We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. –McKenzie Wark | |
| </blockquote> | |
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