What’s for Dinner Tonight? Multi-timescale Reckoning
in which one starts off with a seemingly innocuous question,
then ponders on its serpentine consequences,
in both shallow & deep time
Waste Heritage: Ethics, Rationale, Management, & Reappropriation
in which one learns that
our land is filled with reverberations:
the tangible & intangible legacy of waste
Disassemble & Reassemble
in which one gets to dis-know & re-know
something familiar—or is it?—from the inside out & back in
part 1 shakes apart a word: what is life, is freedom, are we?
through polyhedral table discussions
part 2 gets to the onion heart of an everyday object
part 3 extends the scope of part 2
through immersion in virtual reality
participants are expected to
record their [self]disassembling & [self]reassembling journey in a log
The Hardly Visible Cogs: Of Maths & Insects
in which one peers into, absorbs & gets absorbed by
algorithmic humus & biotic networks
From Biomes to Biomining to Biomiming
in which one learns from
pre- & not-yet-existing ecosystems
& joins their interpenetrating dance with urban & agricrosscultural mosaics
Lab Visits with Chimeras
in which one tunes in to
the crackling dialogue between myths & sciences,
polishing the multifaceted out- & insight into what it means to be
human, humane, inhumane, nonhuman, humanoid, posthuman,
but also synthetic, emergent, golemic, intelligent—swarmingly so
Multiscale Societal Homeostasis
in which one learns to
implement feedback loops on every street corner
so as to inhibit the crystallization of hegemonic pyramids
& to regulate the flow of ±ions in the social tissue circuit
Cross-breeding Weaving Workshop: The Yoneda Tapestry
in which one learns that
everything is determined by its connections with everything else
participants are expected to
glean information by unlocking perspectives
teaching materials: various pairs of shoes, both literal & figurative
this course is structured in an ever-increasing number of modules
[range = inter + {-disciplinary, -personal, -species, -national, -planetary}],
each of which is determined by its connections with the others
Hopepunk Writing Workshop
in which one learns—
Art by Alena Aenami
