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Design AsDesign As PluriverseDesign As Pluriverse features Lee Moreau in conversation with Renata Marques Leitão, Frederick van Amstel, and Lesley-Ann Noel. Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the show can be found hereHear more from Lesley-Ann Noel and Frederick van Amstel on Season 1 of Design As Season two of Design As draws from recordings taken at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.2025-02-1143 min
The Human GreenhouseA pluriverse of potentialOur current worldview is too narrow and restrictive, and we need to embrace a more inclusive understanding where multiple ways of being can coexist – not just between humans, but across all species.This “pluriverse” perspective recognises that we are part of an intricate, interconnected web of life where no single worldview should dominate, and that true transformation requires us to both witness the collapse of old systems while nurturing new possibilities to emerge.Sahana Chattopadhyay is a writer and speaker who has been working and speaking about pluriversality for many years. In this episod...2025-02-111h 00
Climate Change in the MultiverseWelcome to The Pluriverse!The Multiverse is a glitch in the matrix. The Pluriverse is the interconnected reality of all things. The world we want is a world in which many worlds fit. So how do we get there?Welcome to The Pluriverse (!), a place where we explore the stories that hold us in consciousness. Formally known as “Love and the Multiverse,” this publication is now divided into six spaces: Podcast, Culture, Esoteria, Love, Climate, and The Pluriverse. Sure everything could be filed under “The Pluriverse,” but a human needs boundaries!Through culture, climate, love, and the...2025-01-2001 min
Canal Saber | Curiosidad como forma de VidaConcierto de Pluriverse Quartet (Parte II) | Con Marcos Corcoba (piano)El piano de Marcos Corcoba (León, 2005) se incorpora en la segunda parte del concierto que Pluriverse Quartet ofreció en el Auditorio Ciudad de León. La obra 'Quinteto en re mayor Op.6' de Guillermo Díaz Merino (León, 2005), compositor y violín de Pluriverse Quartet, es protagonista en el tramo final de esta actuación del conjunto que completan Adrián García (León, 2003) al violoncello, Marta Fernández (Sahagún, 2003) al violín y Jimena Pérez (León, 2006) a la viola. Con la colaboración de Fundación Eutherpe.2024-07-2542 min
Canal Saber | Curiosidad como forma de VidaConcierto de Pluriverse Quartet (Parte I) | Bach, Beethoven y GriegEn tan sólo cuatro años, los jóvenes miembros del cuarteto orquestal Pluriverse Quartet han conseguido hacerse un hueco en la escena de la música clásica tras protagonizar diversas actuaciones con la formación Juventudes Musicales-Universidad de León e incluir en su repertorio obras propias y de compositores como Dvořák, Beethoven, Shostakóvich. Adrián García (León, 2003) al violoncello, Marta Fernández (Sahagún, 2003) al violín, Guillermo Díaz (León, 2005) al violín y como compositor, y Jimena Pérez (León, 2006) a la viola, unen su talento musical en es...2024-07-191h 01
Crying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiWho's Your Mommy: Support System, Self-warmth, and the Pluriverse!who really belongs in your support system? maybe not everyone who's there right now!! in this episode, we'll peel back layers and layers of your relationship to your relationships, explore what might be holding you in old patterns and feeeeel into support in our own miraculous bodies with some gentle somatic resonance practices! big work, tenderly. we get bewildered, dance with the necessity of self-warmth and true understanding, expand into the pluriverse, and look at how the whole wide world can be your mommy (it'll make more sense-ation when you get to that part). tune in...2024-06-2131 min
敗者のつぶやき#23 多元世界 Pluriverse前回に引き続き、改めて「多元世界 Pluriverse」の概念に関して説明しきれなかったポイントを補足しながら議論しました。
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オートポイエーシス/ニコラス・ルーマン/多元主義⇔多元世界/表象不可能性/意味のシステムの「間」/パララックス（視差）/言語ゲーム/強い関係主義/「美学的な距離」の問題
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「多元世界 Pluriverse」
Kyoto Creative Assemblge 2024.4.27記事
https://assemblage.kyoto/topics/post/pluriverse-and-aesthetics
『多元世界に向けたデザイン ラディカルな相互依存性、自治と自律、そして複数の世界をつくること』
A. エスコバル 著/水野大二郎, 水内智英, 森田敦郎, 神崎隼人 監訳/ BNN
https://bnn.co.jp/products/9784802512527
『トランスクリティーク』
柄谷行人 著/岩波書店
https://www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b255864.html2024-05-191h 08敗者のつぶやき#22 多元世界に向けたデザイン京都工芸繊維大学 未来デザイン・工学機構 副機構長/教授の水野大二郎先生をゲストにお迎えし、水野先生が翻訳の監修を担当された『多元世界に向けたデザイン』の内容を中心に「多元世界 Pluriverse」について議論しました。
※今回の収録は、Kyoto Creative Assemblageの修了生の主導で実施されたカンファレンスの中で、公開録音を行いました。会場の音声も含まれておりますこと、ご了承ください。
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デザインの存在論的帰結/認識論(epistemology)から存在論(ontology)へ/強い関係主義/オートポイエーシス/「複数の世界」ではなく、世界と世界の「間」/多元世界とエステティック・ストラテジー
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『多元世界に向けたデザイン ラディカルな相互依存性、自治と自律、そして複数の世界をつくること』
A. エスコバル著/水野大二郎, 水内智英, 森田敦郎, 神崎隼人,監訳/ BNN
https://bnn.co.jp/products/9784802512527
「多元世界 Pluriverse」
Kyoto Creative Assemblge 2024.4.27記事
https://assemblage.kyoto/topics/post/pluriverse-and-aesthetics2024-05-041h 01
Rosenfeld Review PodcastThe Roots of Inclusion with Victor UdoewaWe hear a lot about diversity, equity, and inclusion, but you probably haven’t heard it like this. Nigerian-born Victor Udoewa, service design lead at the Centers for Disease Control's Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, brings a beautiful perspective that challenges current research methodologies.
Victor introduces the notion of the pluriverse, emphasizing that people inhabit different worlds with unique ways of being and knowing. He draws attention to the diverse perspectives that shape people's beliefs and understanding, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and bridging these gaps.
He also uses a tree as a metaphor, in which the ro...2024-01-2535 min
Fashion is a great teacher – The fashion education podcastMultilogue Moments: Sandra Niessen on ‘De-Fashion: From Fossil Fuel Fashion to a Fashion Pluriverse’, Provocation at The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2023 – De-Fashioning Education, A Critical Thinking and Making ConferenceThis episode brings you ‘De-Fashion: From Fossil Fuel Fashion to a Fashion Pluriverse’ – the Provocation by Sandra Niessen, at The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2023: De-Fashioning Education – A Critical Thinking and Making Conference in Berlin.Sandra Niessen is an anthropologist and activist who WE interviewed in September 2023 on her perspective of De-Fashion, which informed the conference. Join us now for her passionate provocation in Berlin, her call to action for a fossil-free fashion industry and an understanding of fashion that prioritizes cultural diversity, rejects exploitative practices, and fosters a pluriverse of fashion expressions. Editors...2024-01-2428 min
ConnecTED ColumbusGreg Anderson: Across The PluriverseSit down with Millena and Sarayu as they discuss the ins and outs of ancient Greece and criticisms of modern culture with Professor Greg Anderson at Ohio State. Anderson elaborates on his past 2021 TEDxOhioStateUniversity talk titled “Why There’s No Such Thing As Objective Reality”, which is one of the organization's most popular talks. Together, they analyze the meaning of the “pluriverse”, western society, and what it means to be a young person in our current climate.2023-12-0840 min
Coloured SoulsS03 E03: Into the Pluriverse: An Introduction to Pluriversal ThinkingHow do you define normal? Is it in your use of language? Your religious beliefs? How is it that we can be at the centre of our own universe, yet in orbit in others whilst interacting with entirely different epistemologies, lived experiences and perceived normals? In this episode, we will explore how universal truths are affected by subjectivity as we step into the pluriverse.Support the show2023-12-0428 min
thanwstonebookREADDOWNLOAD#% Pluriverse A Post-Development Dictionary [PDF] DOWNLOAD READ**Download Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary Full Edition,Full Version,Full Book**by Ashish KothariReading Now at : https://happyreadingebook.club/?book=8193732987ORDOWNLOAD EBOOK NOW!Read PDF READ/DOWNLOAD#% Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary [PDF] DOWNLOAD READ Ebook Online PDF Download and Download PDF READ/DOWNLOAD#% Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary [PDF] DOWNLOAD READ Ebook Online PDF Download by Ashish Kothari [PDF] Download READ/DOWNLOAD#% Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary [PDF] DOWNLOAD READ Ebook | READ ONLINE Download READ/DOWNLOAD#% Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary [PDF] DOWNLOAD READ read ebook online...2023-10-2100 min
DelayedPREMIERE: Lindamann - Pluriverse [Oslated]To Jeju Island we look today as we’re happy to premiere Lindamann’s Pluriverse track off of the ever phenomenal Oslated imprint. The second in a series of compilations titled, Faithful Present, brings together a plethora of artists, both new and old to the label. Also noted, eagle-eyed followers will see a number of local producers which is always a bonus to support those working around you. Lindamann is one of these, as a Tokyo-based producer having prior releases on Lowless, Indefinite Pitch, Huinali and now joins the Oslated roster with Pluriverse.
Linadmann's creation is a captivating deep techno trac...2023-10-1306 min
Social Justice Matters162. SJI Seminars Ep 36: Peter Doran on Wellbeing Narratives: Inciting the Pluriverse on our island of stories – It takes a movement!Dr Peter Doran is a founding member of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance hub on the island of Ireland and has worked with the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust on a wellbeing outcomes framework for the Northern Ireland Programme for Government. He is a senior lecturer at the School of Law at the Queen's University Belfast and a senior writer with the International Institute for Sustainable Development's reporting services at UN negotiations on environment and development. He has authored numerous articles on ecology and politics, and authored A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism - Reclaiming The Mindful Commons (Routledge 2017). A p...2023-07-2721 min
NextMetaFrontiers of Coordination #13 - Memetic Filters and Collective Imagineering in Web3 w/ Travis WycheOn this episode of Frontiers of Coordination Peth welcomes artist, philosopher and researcher Travis Wyche. After a couple of years in the Web3 space he considers himself a more culturally focused contributor rather than a technical person even when he spends part of his time doing a variety of research on UXs and developing UI design. The fact is that the interweaving of his skills and interests led to Pluriverse, a transmedia lorecrafting experiment in collective imagineering.
Screaming at punk shows was his first approach to the Moloch meme. Later in life when he entered Web3 he...2023-04-301h 06
EXALT PodcastFLASHBACK - Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes - Exploring the PluriverseThis month on the podcast we are really excited to try something new…by revisiting something old! Christopher and I open the podcast with a short chat and some life updates. Then we turn our attention to one of the first EXALT podcasts, “Exploring the Pluriverse” featuring Maria Ehrnstrom-Fuentes, an associate professor at Hanken School of Business. In this amazing conversation she explores themes of decoloniality, degrowth, and reflections on what researchers do and raises questions about how we should do it! Hope you all enjoy revisiting this conversation as much as we did! If you want to find out mo...2023-04-2840 min
jacqurettcquDownload In #PDF Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse DOWNLOAD FREE by Satu MiettinenDownload Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse Full Edition,Full Version,Full Book by Satu Miettinen Reading Now at : https://happyreadingebook.club/?book=1032245166 OR DOWNLOAD EBOOK NOW! [PDF] Download Download In #PDF Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse DOWNLOAD FREE Ebook | READ ONLINE Download Download In #PDF Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse DOWNLOAD FREE read ebook online PDF EPUB KINDLE Download Download In #PDF Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse DOWNLOAD FREE PDF - KINDLE - EPUB - MOBI2023-02-2600 min
In CommonScience and Practice #5: Radical Alternatives to Development with Ashish KothariIn this episode, Hita and Michael speak with noted Indian environmentalist Ashish Kothari, who works at the interface between development and environment and focuses particularly on radical alternatives to development discourses. Ashish is a familiar name to people working in the Indian environmental context as well as those who engage with degrowth, not least because of his strong involvement in grassroots environmental movements such as the Narmada Bachao Andolan in the country. He is one of founders of Kalpavriksh, a Non-Profit Organisation in India which deals with environmental and development issues. In addition, he wears many other hats – as an...2023-01-111h 24
In Search of the PluriverseAsturias, Spain: Tuning into the struggles of a post-industrial region #8 Group talk: Empathic CommunicationAfter living a week under one roof, working together at the farm, walking together in silence, sharing breakfasts, dinners and thoughts, the group talk comes quite naturally. Here we are: Chiara, Ana, Pascale, Cynthia, Sophie and Erik, sitting in a circle in the shade of the biggest building in Spain, built during the Franco regime: Universidad Laboral de Gijón. After a tour of art centre LABoral and a soothing minute of silence we look back on the days we spent together.
A talk about capitalism and workers cooperatives, about poverty and looking for a better future by...2022-12-221h 16In Search of the PluriverseAsturias, Spain: Tuning into the struggles of a post-industrial region #7 Pascale GatzenPascale Gatzen fell in love with fashion as a child, became a designer and quickly fell out of love with the competitive, capitalistic fashion system. In New York she co-founded the workers cooperative Friends of Light that fabricated custom made woven jackets from local wool. This experience evolved into the Dutch ‘Linen Project’ an – also – cooperative attempt to create a value chain from growing organic flax to making linen products with the harvested and processed fibres.
Collaboration comes with communication. Gatzen got interested in ‘empathic communication’ and made that the core of an artistic Master she set up in Arnhem...2022-12-2250 minIn Search of the PluriverseAsturias, Spain: Tuning into the struggles of a post industrial-region #6 Cynthia HathawayWe decide to have the conversation in a parked car, with an enormous hand made world-of-wool-map on our lap. As if we are on an imaginary roadtrip through Cynthia Hathaway’s practise. It fits her way of working: creating fun, momentum and dialogue. Canadian born Hathaway came to the Netherlands in the late 90ies. She calls herself an artistic ‘searcher’ without the re- attached. Always looking for surprising angles and ways to connect different fields of working and thinking. From miniature trains to giant vegetables, from founding a disco in an academic institute to growing potatoes to embody Gilles Deleuz...2022-12-2252 minIn Search of the PluriverseAsturias, Spain: Tuning into the struggles of a post-industrial region #5 Chiara SgaramellaWe asked Chiara Sgaramella to join our Asturias edition because her practice as an artistic researcher focusses on the connection between art and agriculture. She was born and raised in the heel of Italy’s boot, but currently lives and works in Valencia, Spain. Sgaramella sees art as an integrated part of daily life, as a collective effort. From this perspective she studies the relations between soil, food and culture. We all know paella as a dish, but what do we know about rice production in Spain? When and how did rice arrive as a crop in Europe? Chiara de...2022-12-2257 minIn Search of the PluriverseAsturias, Spain: Tuning into the struggles of a post-industrial region #4 Ana CarreñoAna Carreño takes us to public beach in Gijón/Xixon that is sandwiched between two industrial sites. While we look for a spot for our the interview we pass three women on a bench. One of them is singing. She says she used to sing a lot when she was young. Singing is a rural tradition. As a young woman she moved to the city for work and stopped singing.
A job in the mines or the steel industry was an escape from rural poverty. But since the 80ies, when Spain joined the EU, mines wer...2022-12-2239 minIn Search of the PluriverseAsturias, Spain: Tuning into the struggles of a post-industrial region #3 Vertical Field TripOur guests, Ana Carreño, Chiara Sgaramella, Pascale Gatzen en Cynthia Hathaway have arrived. Before we dive into our 1 on 1 conversations, we try – as always – to truly arrive where we are. To ground, to temporarily root and sprout. To share this ‘vertical field trip’ we take you on a sonic tour. From Madrid's busy café's, to our cross-country train ride. Once you arrive in Asturias you witness a morning full of farm stuff and in the afternoon Ana Carreño takes us (and you dear listener!) on a silent sound walk through the industrial landscape that surrounds the farmhouse w...2022-12-2220 minIn Search of the PluriverseAsturias, Spain: Tuning into the struggles of a post-industrial region #2 Virginia LópezWe have arrived in Asturias! We stay in a wonderful former casería (farm house), turned into a residence: PACA, Projectos Artisticos Casa Antonino. Before our guests arrive we have time to walk around the premises and talk with Virginia López founder of PACA and our contextual guide for this week.
But first: why are we here, in central Asturias, Spain, at the rural fringes of the (post)industrial city of Gijón/Xixón? We travelled here wondering if the strong working class identity of the region with its unions, strikes, and hard fought victories still...2022-12-2249 minIn Search of the PluriverseAsturias, Spain: Tuning into the struggles of a post-industrial region #1 Amelie ArangurenBefore we travel to Asturias, we decide to make a pitstop in Madrid and visit the headquarters of INLAND: CAR, Centre For Approaching The Rural. Back in 2009, Fernando Garcia Dory started an agro-cutural-artistic community in Asturias. This was one of the reasons for us to set up our pluriversal camp in this region. This initiative evolved into a much bigger, international movement: INLAND/Campo Adentro, linking territory, culture and social change. While Fernando Dory travels the world to manifest and communicate the ideas of INLAND, Amelie Aranguren runs the Madrid office, which turns out to be much more than t...2022-12-2232 minIn Search of the PluriversePluriversal intermezzo: Baking bread in Bospolder-TussendijkenDuring the exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse at Het Nieuwe Instituut (April-August 2022), artist, cook and weaver Aslı Hatipoğlu handed out sachets of sourdough culture, micro-organisms with which you can make dough for bread. To help all potential home-bakers getting started, but also because baking bread together is more fun and energy efficient, we organised two baking days in late spring and early summer.
On a rainy day in June sourdough enthousiasts gather around the communal oven ‘De Stoker’ in Rotterdam neighbourhood Bospolder-Tussendijken. We talk, exchange, listen, learn, reflect and bake. Conclusion: bread is fundamental. Join us for...2022-12-0834 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #10 Yemoh OdoiArtist, cook, boxer, musician and cultural producer Yemoh Odoi was fascinated as a child by the desert and its nomadic inhabitants. The silence, the space, the absence of people and references. He left Ghana at the age of 18 and travelled his way up to Casablanca via Senegal and the magnificent Sahara.
He founded The Minority Globe to give voice to migrant identities through art. On our last day in Casa, the exhibition ‘Look at me’ opened. Photos of migrant women, taken by migrant women. “A migrant isn’t given anything. You’ve got to take. These women are taking...2022-11-1623 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #9 Grocco/Trick54As a kid Grocco – artist name, his real name is a well kept secret – wanted to make a difference “I’m gonna be King of Casablanca!”. He worked hard and became a grafitti legend. His tag Trick54 can be found all over Marocco and is unavoidable in the urban Casablanca area.
Covid kept Grocco inside and he started to draw more. From his sketchbook, faces started to appear in the public domain. Ambivalent, yet tranquil faces, with holes and phallus-like bulges attached to them. Who is this creature? A visitor, is it Casablanca?
Recently even more enigmati...2022-11-1622 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #8 Fountain TalkWe meet at Musée Collectif with all participants of this ‘who owns the city’ edition: Mouna, Bodil, Rubén, Samba and Mohamed. Maria could not make it but is present in spirit. Some new voices join: street artist Grocco/Trick54 (more on him in talk #4 and #9), cultural producer Jamal Abdennassar (who Wong & Krier worked with in 201o) and artist/curator Yemoh Odoi (who organises artistic residencies for underrepresented members of the migrant population with his organisation The Minority Globe). Last but not least: Francien van Westrenen from Het Nieuwe Insitituut is also present in this circle of Casa-voices.
...2022-11-161h 11In Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #7 Mohamed FaridjiMohamed Faridji co-founded Atelier de l’Observatoire in 2011, around the same time we – Wong & Krier – lived and worked in Casablanca for three months. At the time we did not meet, now we do. We were attracted by Le Musée Collectif (part of Atelier de l’Observatoire) a roaming museum, housed in sea container, presently located in Parc de la Ligue Arabe, which locals still call Parc Yasmina. Faridji is an artist/activist who attempts to cultivate a collective cultural memory of Casa: Is an obsolete polyester Mickey Mouse with one ear missing a piece of trash, or does it have c...2022-11-1637 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #6 Samba SoumbounouAfter taking us to Lac d’Oulfa, Sidi Moumen and Hay Mohammedi for our vertical field trip (talk #2), today Samba Soumbounou brings us to the neighbourhood where he first settled in Casa, arriving from Mauretania 10 years ago. He is a cultural engineer and mediator: connecting dots and making these connections meaningful and productive. Samba is the embodiment of social glue, extremely approachable, always willing to ‘step in’. During our stay his phone rings frequently and many people stop him in the streets to ask something or to just say hi. It earned him the hashtag #letscallsamba!
We talk a...2022-11-1645 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #5 Bodil OuédraogoBodil Ouédraogo was born and raised in Amsterdam by a Dutch mother and a father from Burkina Faso. As a human being and as a designer she cherishes her bi-cultural background. She studies it, she materialises it. In her own words: “I have no choice, my identity cannot be ignored.” After an interesting fashion walk through Casa with Mouna Belgrini, we end up in the courtyard of a fabric store in wholesale district Derb Omar. Apart from the background noise an interesting context for our conversation. We talk about the art of dressing up and how combin...2022-11-1642 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #5 Bodil OuédraogoBodil Ouédraogo was born and raised in Amsterdam by a Dutch mother and a father from Burkina Faso. As a human being and as a designer she cherishes her bi-cultural background. She studies it, she materialises it. In her own words: “I have no choice, my identity cannot be ignored.”
After an interesting fashion walk through Casa with Mouna Belgrini, we end up in the courtyard of a fabric store in wholesale district Derb Omar. Apart from the background noise an interesting context for our conversation. We talk about the art of dressing up and how combin...2022-11-1642 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #4 Mouna BelgriniMouna Belgrini is the perfect tour guide: she knows Casablanca in and out, and she effortlessly connects places, facts and narratives. We could have roamed the city for weeks, but had to limit ourselves to a sublime day of walking and talking. Belgrini is a (photo)journalist, cultural producer and communicator. On a practical level this means Mouna is connecting, editing and distributing content 24/7. We talk about how she learned to live in this complex city, we talk about fear and joy, we look at street art and reflect on the impact the pandemic had on daily life in...2022-11-1652 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #3 Rubén Dario KleimeerRotterdam based photographer Rubén Dario Kleimeer portrays the urban landscape and the people inhabiting it. He uses the medium photography to analyse and better understand urban spaces. With the gaze of an urban ethnographer, he explores the built environment in which we live, work and dwell.
Kleimeer picked the spot for our conversation: Place des Nation Unies, a spacious square where different networks of transportation cross. At the far end of the square, in the shade of a tree, we talk about photography in relation to time and space. If you take a lot of time to...2022-11-1638 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #2 Vertical Field TripIn the meantime all four participants/makers of this Casablanca edition have arrived: Bodil Ouédraogo, Rubén Dario Kleimeer, Mouna Belgrini and Samba Soumbounou. Next to local insider Maria Daïf, Francien van Westrenen from Het Nieuwe Instituut joins us for the five day programme that in the end results in this series of conversations, but kicks off with a ‘vertical field trip’. An attempt to ground ourselves and be truly present in the Casablanca ‘here and now’.
Samba Soumbounou and Mouna Belgrini take us on a dazzling tour. We start in Firdaouss, a quiet small scale neigh...2022-11-1625 minIn Search of the PluriverseCasablanca: who owns the city #1 Maria DaïfIn 2010, we – Wong & Krier – lived and worked for three months in Casa, as locals call Casablanca. Aim was to embrace the city as a place of production and to make a portrait of its hidden qualities: We named it: ICI Casa, Ville Inventive. The resulting exhibition was an optimistic tribute to the resourcefulness of a thriving city. Many questions however were left unanswered once the residency was over: for instance the fragility and invisibility of the – quite substantial – informal economy, and the gentrification of the city through capital investors, materialised in luxury shopping malls. More than ten years and a pandemic...2022-11-1641 minIn Search of the PluriverseFluid selves, fluid Berlin #7 Finale: Body talkImagine a cold, dark and rainy afternoon in November. The group (Dimitrova, Espinosa, Zahn, Wong, Krier and audiotechnician Robert) gathers under an old amusement park bumper-car-roof. We wear silent headphones with discolights. We are in the shadows of Haus der Statistik, that houses artistic and research based projects during its renovation. We use a score by Mia Habib and walk clockwise in circles. Robert stands in the middle, holding the mic.
A walking, searching conversation that covers most subjects we touched upon these past few days: fluidity, violence, urban capitalism, the relation between body, city and health. T...2022-09-141h 09In Search of the PluriverseFluid selves, fluid Berlin #6 Intermezzo: other voices, other livesWe do realise that outside our hyperfocused Berlin bubble, this city hosts many other lives and voices that deserve to be heared and recognised. And that is why – in this short intermission – we make room for Doreen, Vasille, Fluss Puss and Johanna, Berliners we met while walking the streets. What does fluidity mean to them? What brought them here? Who exactly is Berlin?
Berlin Pigeons:
https://www.exberliner.com/berlin/berlin-pigeons/
Fluss Pluss:
https://soundcloud.com/flusspluss
2022-09-1412 minIn Search of the PluriverseFluid selves, fluid Berlin #5 Sabine Zahn: Doing the citySabine Zahn lives and works in Berlin. She investigates how choreographic strategies can help understand how urban space can be lived, expressed and transformed. She creates public research projects and processes which are often based on scripts that set something – often bodies – in motion. In 2021, Sabine was appointed a fellow in the DAS Graduate programme in Amsterdam.
We had this conversation at Floating University, a place for learning and experiment in a neglected water basin at the fringe of Kreuzberg. Zahn thrives in places like this, where new ways of living and being – human and more than human – c...2022-09-1446 minIn Search of the PluriverseFluid selves, fluid Berlin #4 Tomás Espinosa: The art of cruisingTomás Espinosa is artist and activist. He works in both in Berlin and Bogotá. The tension between the ‘intimate’ and the ‘public’ fuels his work. He installed two hanging mirrors with holes in a Berlin park, where men meet for sex. He filmed the installation and put a soundscape under it in which you hear Espinosa cruising through the greenery, making contact with other male bodies. Is this a disturbance of a secretive meeting place, or an attempt to emancipate? He took this installation to Bogotá where he engages since 2015 with La Red Comunitaria Trans, a trans activist network. To...2022-09-1448 minIn Search of the PluriverseFluid selves, fluid Berlin #3 Kornelia Dimitrova: Playbook for healingArchitectural researcher Kornelia Dimitrova co-founded Foundation We Are, a collective of nine creative minds and makers. We had a Warming Up Talk in 2020 with Kornelia and her co-founder Bernhard Lenger. Dimitrova’s analytic and bright approach of the built environment and social dynamics stuck with us, so we asked her to join us for our Berlin edition. In her own practice Dimitrova helps care organisations to address spatial and architectural issues by imagining alternative scenarios for use. In the past years she developed a strategic vision for De Grote Beek, one of the largest mental healthcare facilities in the Nethe...2022-09-1449 minIn Search of the PluriverseFluid selves, fluid Berlin #2 Vertical field trip: sensing FischerinselWe start every pluriversal trip with a joined experience: a vertical fieldtrip, or an ‘acupuncture of place’ as Sophie Krier calls it. Guided by participant Sabine Zahn we (Tomás Espinosa, Kornelia Dimitrova, Benoît Verjat, Sophie Krier and Erik Wong) attempt to ‘feel’ one of the oldest, but now quite nondescript parts of Berlin: Fisherinsel. Sabine invites us to use our whole body and all our senses. We start at motor ship Heimatland that houses Hošek Contemporary, a residency/studio space that functions as our home base.
We walk, jump, stumble, roll, smell, touch, listen and observe...2022-09-1423 minIn Search of the PluriverseFluid selves, fluid Berlin #1 Daan van Kampenhout: Fucking with the GodsAlthough in time it was our last conversation, we decided to start this string of talks with Daan van Kampenhout. His take on fluidity is inspiring and a perfect introduction to our series ‘Fluid selves, fluid Berlin’.
Van Kampenhout’s interest in shamanism started after having vidid dreams during a malaria infection. He graduated from art school with a series of costumes and rituals. After a life of travel, learning, publishing and teaching, Van Kampenhout still combines his ritualistic, systemic practice with designing costumes and performing. A talk on a quiet winter day about antidotes for hate, mediat...2022-09-1447 min
GreenPillPluriverse.WTF with Travis Wyche - Green Pill #43✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Pluriverse.WTF with Travis Wyche | Green Pill #43 On this episode of Green Pill, Kevin welcomes artist, philosopher, ontological anarchist, ux researcher of the expanded field, holobiont, aspiring symbiont, inhabitant of terra that is learning how to live in a dying world—Travis Wyche. The two cover so...2022-09-081h 08
Postcapitalism PodcastMatthias Schmelzer, Nina Treu, and Tonny Nowshin on degrowth, nowtopias, and the pluriverseIn this episode, we'll look at the possible strategic development of the degrowth movement, nowtopias and the concept of the pluriverse. Our guests are Matthias Schmelzer, Nina Treu and Tonny Nowshin. They are the authors of a chapter examining what degrowth can learn from other progressive movements for a new book entitled, "Degrowth and strategy: How to bring about social–ecological transformation."2022-07-071h 00
General Intellect Unit089 - Designs for the Pluriverse, Part 3In which we conclude our reading of "Designs for the Pluriverse", by Arturo Escobar.
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2022-06-051h 36General Intellect Unit088 - Designs for the Pluriverse, Part 2In which we read "Designs for the Pluriverse", by Arturo Escobar.
If you like the show, consider supporting us on Patreon.
Links:
Designs for the Pluriverse, at Duke University Press
The Classless Society in Motion (forthcoming book by Tom & Donal)
Announcement episode on From Alpha to Omega
General Intellect Unit on iTunes
http://generalintellectunit.net
Support the show on Patreon
https://twitter.com/giunitpod
General Intellect Unit on Facebook
General Intellect Unit on archive.org
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2022-05-201h 34General Intellect Unit087 - Designs for the Pluriverse, Part 1In which we read "Designs for the Pluriverse", by Arturo Escobar.
If you like the show, consider supporting us on Patreon.
Links:
Designs for the Pluriverse, at Duke University Press
The Classless Society in Motion (forthcoming book by Tom & Donal)
Announcement episode on From Alpha to Omega
General Intellect Unit on iTunes
http://generalintellectunit.net
Support the show on Patreon
https://twitter.com/giunitpod
General Intellect Unit on Facebook
General Intellect Unit on archive.org
Emancipation Network
2022-04-221h 53In Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull Detour Talk - With Mae-Ling Lokko & Henriëtte Waal (Accra/Arles/The Hague)Ghanaian-Filipino architectural scientist Mae-ling Lokko is active in the field of biomaterials. A recent work discussed in this talk is Thresholds of Return, a gate made of waste from the Ghanian coconut industry. It is a reconstruction of the Door of No Return in Elmina (Ghana), through which the enslaved were led out of Africa. Wong & Krier got to know about Lokko’s work in Mull through Tom Morton (Arc Architects), with whom she designed an ‘open air classroom’ for the Future by Design Cove park residency in the lead up to COP26.
Designer and researcher Henriëtte Waa...2022-04-2140 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #13: Bonus: sounds of MullJust before we left we handed all the sounds we recorded along the way, over to sound engineer Martin Low. He mixed it into this soundscape. The last pearl of the string. Thank you Martin, Mull and everyone we’ve met along the way. 2022-04-2103 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #12: Aslı Hatipoğlu on microbes, food and community.Aslı Hatipoğlu is weaver, researcher and cook. “By cooking in specific environments, and engaging with people from different cultural backgrounds, I run into stories, which lead me to subjects such as history, psychology, spirituality, ecology and science. I translate these stories into textiles or printed edible materials, and curate dinners around these topics, making use of the social interaction that takes place when we eat together.” Sadly enough Aslı could not join us on Mull, so Erik looked her up in Maastricht where she was a participant at Jan van Eyck Academie, a post graduate programme for art, design an...2022-04-1939 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #11: Radio Round & About: Barn TalkAfter all these 1 on 1’s with our hosts Miek and Rutger, the neighbours, and guests Tim & Reiko, Tom and Anne it is time to listen, share and discuss in a larger local context. We invited more local voices: theater director Rebecca Atkinson-Lord (Tobermory), new generation Mull crofter Renatus Derbidge, Oban-based curator Naoko Mabon, artist Mhairi Killin (Iona) and fiddle player and researcher for South West Mull and Iona Development (SWID) Hanna Fischer. Neighbour Judy Gibson was present, Jimmy and John were too busy at their farms. We (Erik & Sophie) scripted this talk in many ways, but in the end we...2022-04-191h 59
Education Policy for AllPluriversal literacies: their significance for educatorsIn this episode, we are joined by Dr Mia Perry from the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Dr Perry is a Senior Lecturer in Literacies and Arts Education for Sustainability whose work in education spans school, community, public, and digital contexts. We discuss the meaning of literacies in the context of a diverse and multiversal world where the notion of universal literacy is critically questioned. We explore the ways literacies in the 'schooled' education system make meaning of the world and how we can come to recognise that literacy is inseparable from...2022-04-1939 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #10: Anne van Leeuwen on unboxing thinkingIt is Anne van Leeuwen’s personal mission to bring about regenerative crossovers between nature and culture and to translate these into concrete projects and propositions. Part of this effort involves creating a constructive dialogue between scientists, artists, business persons, politicians, citizens and wherever possible non-humans. In the past years she co-founded the collective Embassy of the North Sea, which departs from the starting point that the sea owns itself. Their podcast series Voices of the North Sea explores this point of view. Anne – her energy seems endless – is also the co-founder of Bodemzicht, a regenerative farm and learning place...2022-04-1340 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #9: Tom Morton on emptinessArchitect Tom Morton founded ARC, a small architectural practice based in a former candle-making workshop in Cupar, Fife, in the east of Scotland. Its nature-based work transcends architectural practice to encompass diverse creative and learning activities such as repairing mud walls, communicating material physics, and building festivals. Erik meets up with Tom in a 19th century lighthouse-builders-home on Erraid. They look out of the window. It looks empty, but what is emptiness? It is a very subjective, loaded word in this fringe of the UK: Tom, some context please! In this meandering talk they touch upon the concept of...2022-04-1346 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #8: Tim Collins & Reiko Goto on empathyScotland-based artist duo Collins+Goto Studio (Tim Collins and Reiko Goto) are known for their long-term projects that involve socially engaged environmental research and practice in both the USA and the UK. In 2019, after ten years of research, they launched the Plein Air LP, featuring Scotland-based recordings with the help of a plant-driven synthesizer. Sophie meets up with Tim and Reiko on a rainy grey morning. How can we feel empathy with nature? How can we understand other-than-human life forms without speaking their language? And how will this deeper understanding affect us as humans? A talk about peat, post...2022-04-1346 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #7: Vertical plastic: sailing with Mark JardineIn the meantime our guests from the Netherlands and Scotland have arrived: Anne van Leeuwen, Tom Morton, Tim Collins & Reiko Goto. Unfortunately our fifth guest Aslı Hatipoğlu bumped into the invisible Nation State wall and didn’t make it further than Schiphol airport. Her talk is the last one in this series, we looked her up in Maastricht when we got back.
Before we dive into 1 on 1 talks, we went for a ‘vertical field trip’. A communal effort to really relate to where we are. With skipper Mark Jardine we sailed to a remote beach at the south side of n...2022-04-1240 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #6: Having coffee with Jimmy CampbellA bit further down the road lives Jimmy Campbell, the third neighbour we talked to. Apart from taking care of 600 sheep, Jimmy and his wife Christine run a succesful camping site, soon to be taken over his daughter and son in law. A talk about sheep that eat seaweed, the changing flow of tourists, the ultra low market price for wool, and helping each other out as neighbours.
We were inspired and overwhelmed by Mull and everything the island contains and shared with us. This is one of 13 talks. We edited it like ‘a string of pearls’ It wor...2022-04-0720 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #5: Wading to Judy Gibson on ErraidJudy Gibson spent all her childhood summers on the Isle of Erraid. 5 years ago she relocated here permanently. She shares the island – or tidal island – with the spiritual Findhorn community. Despite living across a narrow strip of sea, Judy is one of Miek and Rutger’s closest neighbours. A talk about community work, her father – Tony Gibson’s – legacy, and the inevitable effects of climate change on daily life.
We were inspired and overwhelmed by Mull and everything the island contains and shared with us. This is one of 13 talks. We edited it like ‘a string of pearls’ It works...2022-04-0748 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #4: A walk & talk with John CameronJohn and Linda Cameron live at Knockvologan 1, next door to where Miek and Rutger live. This is where the Ross of Mull ends, or begins. Camper drivers are often suprised by this fact and have to turn around, or… decide to spend the night on the land of the Camerons. John has lived here all his life, takes care of sheep and cows and drives his ‘quad’ with visible pleasure. A talk about being a crofter, the quality of grass, the deer problem, and cows that go on vacation to neighbour Jimmy’s pastures.
We were inspired and overw...2022-04-0722 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #3: Baking bread with Rutger EmmelkampWhile Erik and Miek are hiking, Sophie joins Rutger at his morning routine of baking bread. It took him more than a year to get it right: to build a productive relation with the sourdough culture that helps him bake the bread. As a bonus Rutgers shows the ‘barn in a barn’ that he has been building for the past two years. We give you two words: pig manure and resilience.
Rutger Emmelkamp is an artist, teacher and program maker. He connects art, historical and deep ecology theory with film, literature, theater and crafts. In parallel, Rutger has...2022-02-2818 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #2: A walk with Miek ZwambornEarly Birds Miek and Erik go for a walk and enter a magical world. Eaten alive by the midges they talk about how much we don’t know and how Miek finds words for things she sees: by looking at them over and over and over again. As a bonus Miek reads the poem ‘Oaks at Knockvologan’ bij local poet Derek Crook.
Miek Zwamborn is an artist, novelist, book maker and translator. Whilst carrying out field research, she travels through time and space. By intertwining her observations with local history and scientific research on flora & fauna, she create...2022-02-2815 minIn Search of the PluriverseThriving on Mull #1: Miek Zwamborn and Rutger EmmelkampFinally: after a warming up that took us longer than expected, we take you to the weather beaten, Scottish Isle of Mull. And how better to arrive than meeting our hosts Miek and Rutger. Two Dutch artists who decided to move to the southern tip of the island. There, surrounded by sea, sheep, bog and a nature reserve, they worked the past five years to build, stumble, fall, getting up and getting connected. We meet them at a moment when surviving slowly turns into thriving. The ‘dance of daily life’ becomes smoother and their artist in residency program Knockvologan is g...2022-02-2841 min
In Search of the PluriverseGetting in the mood for Mull #2 – with Jay TomptOn the weather-beaten island of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland, two artists from the Netherlands set up camp, taking a vow to “work with the elements, not fight them”. Over time they grew a garden, a seasonal residency programme and a neighbourhood barn-in-a-barn. How to thrive and make kin with other humans and non-humans in such a remote place, year-round? The team of In Search of the Pluriverse will find out by temporarily relocating to this northern edge of Europe.
Wong & Krier needed some more context before they left for the UK, Scotland, Mull. To touc...2021-12-0338 minIn Search of the PluriverseGetting in the mood for Mull #1 – with Suzanne DhaliwalOn the weather-beaten island of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland, two artists from the Netherlands set up camp, taking a vow to “work with the elements, not fight them”. Over time they grew a garden, a seasonal residency programme and a neighbourhood barn-in-a-barn. How to thrive and make kin with other humans and non-humans in such a remote place, year round? The team of In Search of the Pluriverse will find out by temporarily relocating to this northern edge of Europe.
Wong & Krier needed some more context before they left for the UK, Scotland, Mull. To t...2021-12-0335 minIn Search of the PluriverseTesting İstanbul’s Waters spin off: Dersim’s WatersAs part of the podcast episode Testing İstanbul’s Waters, impact maker and Dutch politician with Kurdish roots Kıvılcım Özmen shares the stories of her grandmother Besê Diribaş (1915-1996) about the layered meaning of water in Dersim. Eastern Anatolia has been home to many Kurds for centuries. Some continue to live there even after the Dersim massacre (1937-1938).
Slow down, and let this circular tale of belonging cradle you. The original story is by Kıvılcım Özmen; the English narration is by İlke Ercan; and the song Ferfecir is by Metin and Kemal Kahraman. Many thanks to...2021-12-0329 min
In Search of the PluriverseThirst Walk & Talk - Bonus trackIn four short audio notes, Sophie and Erik reflect on the Thirst Talk. Sophie brings in Arturo Escobar’s writings and Erik announces an epilogue of our İstanbul adventure…
For more information about In Search of the Pluriverse visit hnix.nl/pluriverse and follow @insearchofthepluriverse on Instagram.
2021-12-0305 minIn Search of the PluriverseThirst Walk & Talk: On water as continuity.With designer Nur Horsanalı, urbanist Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, river mobiliser Li An Phoa and architect Eva Pfannes from OOZE.
Finally Sophie and Erik meet up with Nur Horsanalı, Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, Eva Pfannes from OOZE and Li An Phoa at the same time, in virtual space. After a synchronised one hour walk, following the THIRST WALK instructions Sophie wrote, we meet online in public space. Calling in from İstanbul, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague. Accompanied by the sound of mosques, playing children and a Dutch breeze, we talk about water inside and outside our bodies, about w...2021-12-0356 minIn Search of the PluriverseTesting İstanbul‘s Waters: Thirst Talk #5 – with Serkan TaycanIn this extra Thirst Talk, Sophie crosses – virtual – paths with engineer and artist Serkan Taycan who initiated the Between Two Seas Walk: an artwork, a heritage walk and an open air laboratory at the same time. By combining the notion of engineering with an artistic practice, Taycan tries to make us aware of how spatial decision-making can have enormous cultural and ecological consequences.
Cited references
Serkan Taycan
www.serkantaycan.com/
A Wall of Water (5’48’’), Serkan Taycan, 2018
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu says only a handful of people will benefit from the Kanal Istanbul project.
bianet.org/english/envir...2021-12-0322 minIn Search of the PluriverseTesting İstanbul‘s Waters: Thirst Talk #4 – with Yasar Adnan AdanalıIn Thirst Talk #4, Sophie meets up with urbanist and İstanbulite Yaşar Adnan Adanalı. A talk about how all spatial issues have social consequences. Also the idea of walking as a way to produce knowledge and the importance of ‘scale’ pop up during this short, animated talk.
Cited references
Yaşar Adnan Adanalı
yasaradanali.com
Infected Cities Series
dutchculture.nl/en/events/infecte…cities-8-istanbul
Center for Spatial Justice, Mekanda Adalet Derneği (MAD)
centerforspatialjustice.org/
Beyond İstanbul
beyond.istanbul/
Kanal İstanbul (official narrative)
www.kanalistanbul.gov.tr/tr
Kanal İstanbul (environmental contestation)
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/art…tal...2021-12-0323 minIn Search of the PluriverseTesting İstanbul’s Waters: Thirst Talk #3 – with Eva Pfannes (OOZE)In Thirst Talk #3, Erik has a conversation with Eva Pfannes, one of the founders of OOZE. A talk about ‘oozing’ as a slow process without boundaries. The conversation starts in a Rotterdam neighbourhood and ends in a temporary natural swimming pond in London. Dip in!
Cited references
Ooze (Eva Pfannes and Silvain Hartenberg)
www.ooze.eu.com/
IABR “Down to Earth / Whose Energy is it, anyway?”: Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP)
www.iabr.nl/en/projectatelier/leap2
www.ooze.eu.com/en/urban_strategy local_energy_action_plan_rotterdam/
Harvesting energy from rivers: aquathermy
www.cedelft.eu/en/pub...2021-12-0319 minIn Search of the PluriverseTesting İstanbul’s Waters: Thirst Talk # 2 – with Nur HorsanalıIn this second Thirst Talk, Sophie meets designer and Istanbulite Nur Horsanalı, who spent a lot of time on the famous Galata bridge to observe fishermen and the social and economic structure that surrounds them. There is a lot of ‘halletmek’ going on there. What is halletmek? Tune in and find out.
Cited references
Nur on insta
www.instagram.com/nurhorsanali/
Young Curators’ Group, 5th İstanbul Design Biennale
empathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/5th-istan…rators-group
Desiccate with Care, part of New Civic Rituals
empathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/project/1…te-with-care
Finnish Pavilion of the 22nd Triennale di Milano
trien...2021-12-0323 minIn Search of the PluriverseTesting İstanbul‘s Waters: Thirst Talk #1 – with Li An PhoaTesting İstanbul's Waters: Thirst Talk #1 – with Li An Phoa
In this first episode Erik meets up with researcher and activist Li An Phoa, who walked 15.000 kilometers in the past 10 years to mobilise all stakeholders involved in the well being of rivers. A talk about the precious 2% of fresh, drinkable water there is on this planet.
Cited references
Drinkable Rivers and the role that the Rupert river in Québec, Canada played in mobilising Li An Phoa
drinkablerivers.org/our-story/
De Drinkbare Maas Afl. 1-3 (NPO Start, De Boeddhistische Blik)
www.npostart.nl/de-boeddhistische…3-2020/KN_171...2021-12-0320 min
In Search of the PluriverseWarming Up to the Pluriverse #8: Bonus track – Pluriversal Exercise: The Art of AttentionThis bonus exercise, recorded by Jay and Isa themselves, is all about choosing a ‘sit-spot’ and building up a relation with it over time. Thank you: Starhawk for inspiration and guidance and Jack Jordan for sound production.
Share your special spot findings via pluriverse@hetnieuweinstituut.nl.
For more information about In Search of the Pluriverse visit hnix.nl/pluriverse and follow @insearchofthepluriverse on Instagram.
2021-12-0305 minIn Search of the PluriverseWarming Up to the Pluriverse #8: On making the yes and the noWarming Up to the Pluriverse #8: On making the yes and the no
With Jay Jordan & Isa Frémaux
In this last – but much more to come, stay tuned! – Warming Up talk we meet Jay Jordan and Isa Frémeaux, co-founders of Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (Labofii). This lab brings artists and activists together to design tools and acts of disobedience and resistance. Unhappy with the world of performance and art (Jay) and institutional education (Isa), they created their own practice and approach in which there is always a ‘no’ and a ‘yes’ present, after the zapatista movement. Since 2015 Jay...2021-12-0358 minIn Search of the PluriverseWarming Up to the Pluriverse #7: Bonus track – Making life anewA pluriversal homework task by Arturo Escobar.
For more information about In Search of the Pluriverse visit hnix.nl/pluriverse and follow @insearchofthepluriverse on Instagram.
2021-12-0306 minIn Search of the PluriverseWarming Up to the Pluriverse #7: On designing otherwiseIn this talk we meet Arturo Escobar himself, author of ‘Designs for the Pluriverse. Radical Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making of Worlds’ (2018, Duke University Press), the book we use as a guide for our pluriversal search. Escobar is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Political Ecology at the University of North Carolina. As early as 1987, he criticised the downside of ‘development’ from a Western perspective. His search for plural ways to co-inhabit this planet is inspired by Afro-Colombian social movements, and their plea to realise ‘a world in which many worlds fit’. In this personal conversation design is approached both as a system...2021-12-0357 minIn Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the Pluriverse #6: Bonus track – On sexual creative energyThe main conversation ends with the notion of a child-like sexual/sensual energy that we tend to disconnect with while growing up. In the bonus track Camila dives into ‘that beautiful thing that we feel in our whole body’. It is linked to the vagus nerve that connects the brain to our sexual organs. How can we (re)activate this nerve? Listen!
References
“ The vagus nerve is a wonderful channel of sexual energy.”
selfcervix.com/pages/science
“The gag reflex has a lot to do with life and death. It triggers a kind of release.”
www.biologyonlin...2021-12-0303 min
In Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the Pluriverse #6: On being pluralIn this sixth Warming Up talk, we meet Camila Marambio – a being as plural as the worlds she inhabits, falls in love with, and seeks to protect. Camila is the founder/director of Ensayos, a nomadic interdisciplinary research program that has been collectively unraveling the eco politics of the archipelago of Karokynka a.k.a. Tierra del Fuego for about a decade now. Camila completed her Phd in Curatorial Practice at Monash University, Melbourne with both a TV web series “DISTANCIA" and an exegesis (a critical explanation or interpretation of a text) with the title: ‘DISTANCIA: A measure of intima...2021-12-0352 min
In Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the Pluriverse #5: Bonus track – Stones have lawsIn addition to our main conversation with architect/researcher Sean Leonard, co-founder of Alice Yard, we added a short audio clip about Stones have Laws, a film made by Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan en Tolin Erwin Alexander, in close cooperation with Saamaka and Okanisi communities along the Surinam River. We all enjoyed this ‘visual experience’.
Reference
“Dee Sitonu a Weti / Stone have Laws” (2018) trailer
www.filmfonds.nl/page/7836/stones-have-laws
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In Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the Pluriverse #5: On celebrating smallnessIn the fifth talk we meet up online with architect/researcher Sean Leonard, part of Co-RD Limited, and co-founder of Alice Yard, a contemporary art space located in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, which hosts and facilitates an ongoing programme of artists and artists’ projects, where networking, collaboration, improvisation and play are key. In 2020 Leonard was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Tilting Axis Fellowship made possible among others by Het Nieuwe Instituut. This position includes collaborations with the Amsterdam Museum, De Appel, The Black Archives and FKA Witte de With / Melly. This is also how ‘In Search of the Pluriverse’ and Le...2021-12-0346 min
In Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the Pluriverse #4: On avoiding assumptionsIn this fourth talk, Wong & Krier speak with architectural researcher Kornelia Dimitrova and social designer Bernhard Lenger, co-founders of Foundation We are, a collective of nine creative minds and makers that functions both as a playground for their different individual practices, and as a joint design consulting agency aiming to transform social and legal systems. How to keep your design practice close to the ground? Can we still have hope for Europe? And what is the similarity between a personal burn-out and climate change? Tune in to find out.
References
Foundation We Are
foundationweare.org/
Creative...2021-12-0342 min
In Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the Pluriverse #4: Bonus track – Designing collectivelyReference
DD BNO magazine
www.bno.nl/page/dd
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In Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the the Pluriverse #3: On imagining beginningsIn this third warming up talk we speak to Mariana Pestana, curator of the fifth Istanbul Biennale entitled “Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one” about what kind of ‘radical design imagination’ (Escobar 2018) the world needs, today.
In a nutshell, Mariana’s critical social practice investigates “the role that fiction can play in re-imagining futures for an age marked by technological progress and an ecological crisis.” Initially trained as an architect, Mariana lives and works between Porto and London where she has taught at Royal College of Art and Central St Martins. She is one of the co-founders of...2021-12-0341 min
In Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the Pluriverse #2: Bonus track – Pa Amb Tomàquet (Catalan bread with tomato)Reference
partaste.com/worldrecipes/pa-am…t-spain-catalonia/
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In Search of the PluriverseWarming up to the Pluriverse #2: On letting things run by themselvesIn this second ‘warming up talk’ we meet Miquel Hervás Gómez, Catalan by birth, living and working for 10 years in Amsterdam. As a graphic designer Miquel embraces the idea of the ‘collective’. He is a member of design/research platform Fanfare and the online collaborative Carne Kids. In parallel to his design practice, Miquel teaches at both the Sandberg Institute and the Rietveld Academy and manages the bookbinding workshop BBBBgraBB for both institutions.
References
Gerrit Rietveld Academie / Book binding workshop
rietveldacademie.nl/en/page/1177/boekbinderij
Disarming Design, Sandberg Instituut
disarmingdesign.com/projects/phd/sa…berg-institu...2021-12-0324 min
In Search of the PluriverseWarming up the Pluriverse #1: On becoming networksIn this talk we meet Joke Robaard, independent thinker and maker. Active since the 80s in the world of design. Deeply involved in art and education. Developed a broad framework to reflect on design, materiality, weaving. Recently co-authored the book Archive Species with Camiel van Winkel on her ever-growing collection of (fashion) images. In short: always traced her own course.
Does the idea of the Pluriverse as enunciated by Escobar in his 2018 book resonate with your practice, we asked.
References
George Floyd, Black Lives Matter
blacklivesmatter.com/
Daniel Keneman, Behavioral Economy
kahneman.socialpsychology.org/
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The Human ObserverThe Pluriverse - Ep.#85WELCOME ABOARD! In this episode, we pull reality apart. Breaking down what each person perceives as their own reality - realising the fact that each one of us has a unique experience within this place we call a UNIverse - each of us inhabits our own PLURIverse!
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Design in Transition/Diseño en TransiciónBonus Episode [ENG]: Sound experiments à la exquisite corpse: sensing/thinking the pluriverse and making worldsSecond year MDes Candidates and First year PhD Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) created audios in an exquisite corpse fashion (a technique used by surrealists painters where they would draw on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the drawing, and then pass it to the next painter to build on the previous contribution).
These audios are a reflective and exploratory exercise in the intersection of the Pluriverse and Design based on the texts of Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser introduction of the book "A World of Many Worlds" where each...2021-04-2234 min
Hello From the PluriverseS1: Ep19: Hello From the Pluriverse: Michael Lee Poy"With the Pluriverse state of mind, you belong everywhere and nowhere"
Michael Lee Poy is an Afro-Caribbean artist-activist and architect in Trinidad and Tobago. His practice and interests center on post-colonial Caribbean design and fabrication in the festival arts – especially Carnival. A graduate of Pratt Institute of Technology in architecture and the Yale Graduate School of Architecture, Environmental Design, Michael aims to use an interdisciplinary approach to augment the innovative, creative, and collaborative process of design. Michael is an Assistant Professor of Design at Ontario College of Design University in the Environmental and Industrial Design programs.
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Lee...2021-04-2227 minEXALT PodcastYafa El Masri - How can refugees save the world?This month we talked with Yafa El Masri, who is getting a doctorate in Geography in a joint research program between the University of Padova, University of Venice, and University of Verona. She was also a visiting researcher at the Global Development Studies Unit at the Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Helsinki. Yafa is also a stateless Palestinian refugee who was born and raised in refugee camps in Lebanon. She does autoethnographic research on solidarity among refugees in refugees camps. She has worked extensively with grassroots organizations and development projects within her community.
Growth centered...2021-02-2657 min
Reclaiming PedagogiesE07 - On being plural (Camila Marambio)Warming Up to the Pluriverse - Talk #6: On being plural In this talk, we meet Camila Marambio – a being as plural as the worlds she inhabits, falls in love with, and seeks to protect. Camila is the founder of Ensayos a nomadic interdisciplinary research program that has been collectively unraveling the eco politics of the archipelago of Karokynka a.k.a. Tierra del Fuego for about a decade now. A mesmerising talk about cosmic changes, circular stories, a pluriversal owl and the notion of with-with.
This talk is part of "In Search of the Pluriverse", a quest cura...2021-02-0152 min
Chaos Computer Club - Remote Chaos Experience (mp3)In search of the money commons: on the Pluriverse and Unconditional Basic Income (rc3)In search of the money commons: on the Pluriverse and Unconditional Basic Income
about this event: https://pretalx.rc3.studio/rc3-channels-2020/talk/KXGB8N/2020-12-2926 min
Chaos Computer Club - archive feed (high quality)In search of the money commons: on the Pluriverse and Unconditional Basic Income (rc3)In search of the money commons: on the Pluriverse and Unconditional Basic Incomeabout this event: https://pretalx.rc3.studio/rc3-channels-2020/talk/KXGB8N/2020-12-2926 min