In Search of the Pluriverse
Can we as humans and other living beings learn to live together, in difference? Can we create a future that actually has a future? Join Sophie Krier and Erik Wong in their search for alternative perspectives, for radical imaginations, for a world in which many worlds can thrive. A search for something that is already present: the pluriverse is all around us. Wong and Krier have adopted a perspective put forward by Arturo Escobar in his book Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (Duke University Press, 2018). What are the consequences of these pluriversal notions in daily life? For their search Wong and Krier visit five locations at the fringes of Europe: İstanbul, Casablanca and Berlin (often seen as gateways to and from Central Asia, North Africa and old Europe) and two rural areas: the Isle of Mull and Asturias (as places for self-sufficient living). For every edition four makers join Erik and Sophie, two locally based, and two based in the Netherlands. Every conversation and encounter builds on the previous one in an effort to create a vibrant network that connects different places, different types of knowing and ways of living. Listen in, the door is open.
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Episodes
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
In 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 The Decorators, a collective that produces collaborative public interventions and cultural programs, such as Expedition Empathy (Azores, 2019). The publications she (co)edited over the past years speak volumes: “ The Future Starts Here ” Victoria and Albert Museum(2018); “Eco Visionaries: Towards an Interspecies Future” Matadero Madrid (2019).
References
New Civic Ritualsempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/programme…ivic-rituals
Sundial of the Blind by Eli Bensusanempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/project/1…of-the-blind
Microbial Fruits of Istanbul by Orkan Telhan and eliiempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/project/1…-of-istanbul
LANZONI Susan. Empathy: A History, Yale Books, 2018yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300222685/empathy
Vernon Lee, one of the first to write about empathywww.jstor.org/stable/25067229?se…_info_tab_contents
Critical Cooking Showempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/programme…ooking-shows
Library of Land and Seaempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/programme…land-and-sea
Partnerships by FRAUDempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/project/4…partnerships
Earthable by Aslihan Demirtas
Agros Istanbul by Aslihan Demirtasempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/project/4…ros-istanbul
Sumitra Upham, curator of Programmestasarimbienali.iksv.org/en/5th-istanb…ratorial-team
Future Anecdoteswww.futureanecdotesistanbul.com/Future_An…/fai.html
Mattering of a productive mythology by Alsi UludağThis case study, on which Wong & Krier zoom in during the talk, maps the tools, materials and spatial conditions that transformed the mythology of the Büyük Menderes Graben, with support from the women of Kızılcaköy, the olive and fig growers and their lawyer.empathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/project/4…ve-mythology
APUJARAI Arjun. The Future a Cultural Fact. Essays on the Global Condition, Verso Books, 2013www.versobooks.com/books/1171-the-…s-cultural-fact
ILLICH Ivan. Tools for Conviviality, Fontana/Collins, 1973/1975monoskop.org/images/3/3e/Illich…viviality_1975.pdf
Material Histories: Sands, Soils, Recipes and Other Archives by Counterspaceempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/project/4…her-archives
Cooking With Stories by depatriarchise design and Mayar El-Bakryempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/critical-…with-stories
The case of meat by Valeria Meiller & Agustin Schangempathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/critical-…case-of-meat
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Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
In 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 workshoprietveldacademie.nl/en/page/1177/boekbinderij
Disarming Design, Sandberg Instituutdisarmingdesign.com/projects/phd/sa…berg-instituut/
History of the autonomous region of Cataloniawww.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20345071
Black flagen.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_flags
Carne Kidscarne.work/
Fanfarefanfarefanfare.nl/
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Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
In 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 Matterblacklivesmatter.com/
Daniel Keneman, Behavioral Economykahneman.socialpsychology.org/
Deleuze Gille and Guattari Félix, The Smooth & the Striated in: Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F., A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, translated by B. Massumi. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-thousand-p…-9781780935379/
StirrupA stirrup is a light frame or ring that holds the foot of a rider, attached to the saddle by a strap, often called a stirrup leather. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirrup
Guerilla Girlswww.guerrillagirls.com/
Bowery Houston/First Street community gardenwww.greenguerillas.org/history
Green Guerillawww.greenguerillas.org/
Joke Robaard took part in “Incidental Alterations: National and International StudioProgram Exhibition 1994–1995” at MOMA PS1 New York.www.moma.org/artists/72948?locale=en
Food Forest BookOostwoud Madelon, Voedselbos. Inspiratie voor ontwerp en beheer, Knnv Uitgeverij, 2019knnvuitgeverij.nl/artikel/madelon-oostwoud.html
Lien de terre (trans. soil bond)A law in France to preserve agricultural land from real estate speculation)terredeliens.org/
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