The Visual Methodologies Collective has been invited to contribute to the Innovation Labs program, led by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture.
To design a more socially sustainable city, we long for more diverse and nuanced insights about how the city works as a space of belonging – not seen from the professional eyes of those who plan it, but from those who live in it.
How can we sense and make sense of forests with devices, techniques and our bodies? How might we cultivate an interdisciplinary »arts of noticing« (Anna Tsing) for attending to forests and their role in critical zones?
From solapunk hi-tech archinatures, to the afrofuturist technocultural aesthetics of the self, to the idealised and fashionable rural life of cottagecore influencers, people are pushing online their own personal visions of what an ideal — or feared — future life on this planet could look like.
