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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), Laboratory of Critical Technics (LCT) and the Synthesis Lab of the Arizona State University (ASU). |
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* fragments https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com | |
* photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157681429258454 | * photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157681429258454 |
* FoAM activity page: https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow/ | * Dust and Shadow on FoAM's website: https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow/ |
| * fragments https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com |
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How all of this might unfold (TBC and subject to change without notice) | Dust and Shadow is developed on-site (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 in the autumn of 2019. |
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* Spring 2017 (may/june): [[fieldtrip 1]], observations, questions, [[https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-1-48e94d02540b|travelogue]], etc. \\ | * Spring 2017 (may/june): [[fieldtrip 1]], observations, questions, [[https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-1-48e94d02540b|travelogue]], etc. \\ |
* Summer 2017 (july/august): articulating research [[concepts|questions]], [[resonances|literature]] research, mapping, 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 [[propositions]] for experiments, planning [[publications]]\\ | * Fall 2017 (november/december): [[fieldtrip 2]], FoAM presentation/talk at LCT & Synthesis, experimental workshop, formulating [[experiments]] for experiments, planning [[publications]]\\ |
* Spring 2018: prototyping and experiments (first iteration): thalient lab, [[https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow-walk/|D&S walk]], [[reader 1]], prototype equinox observance, editorial design for the book\\ | * Spring 2018 (march): [[fieldtrip 3]], prototyping and experiments: desert attunement trip, thalient lab, [[https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow-walk/|D&S walk]], [[reader 1]], desert equinox ritual\\ |
* Summer & Fall 2018: design seasonal feast, reader 2 and book | * Winter/Spring 2019: design [[reader 2]] and field notes booklet |
* Spring 2019: Second action research cycle ending in a public experiment (seasonal feast?), book\\ | * Summer 2019: sound design for record release, exhibition design for Dust and Shadow reading room and acoustic ecology salon |
| * Autumn 2019: Desert Humanities Launch, library exhibition opening and Dust & Shadow symposium\\ |
* + continuous online documentation\\ | * + continuous online documentation\\ |
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