What if you could build a social agenda at a festival? And not any kind of an agenda, but an Agenda for Social Transformation. On the 23rd–24th of September we are going to give it a go. Every session at the Untitled festival builds towards our agenda for transformation. The 2021 Untitled festival is not […]
Join the post-festival Saturday matinee / after party: Live Artists Think tank SIGN UP HERE >> One of the new perspectives Untitled promotes is the idea of a new kind of freedom. Freedom as a relational idea, a freedom that is gained through interdependency to others – the living and non-living. The idea of freedom […]
Imagine if this world would work so that instead of helping the underprivileged and marginalized to integrate into society and pushing for inclusion, we would focus on helping the privileged to face their uncomfortable feelings and let go of their unfair and unjust advantages. Social change is emotional work – through empathy and accountability we can […]
A fierce debate rages over the most effective ways to tackle the problems that our use of technology is causing for democracy, equality, and society as a whole. Built into the terms of these debates are a series of unhelpful assumptions that constrict imagination and undermine the perceived viability of truly radical approaches. Agenda track: […]
A parallel polis is a space of human creativity and agency that connects all citizens to practical solutions to our environmental, social division and well-being crises. In this session you are invited to imagine a parallel polis through architecture that can connect community agency-networks (CANs) locally and internationally and sketch its potential impact. Agenda track: […]
We invite anyone interested in bringing concrete utopias to their communities, whether it is your workplace, housing cooperative, city council, home town, or football team. Session participants will get to experiment with new forms of transformative learning developed in the research project Pedagogy of Concrete Utopias. The research project develops pedagogy that supports learners to […]
In this conversation we will be delving into how embracing the social nature of imagination might transform the democratic contract. Agenda track: 2 Ontological politics, 3 Civic imagination Session type: New narratives Interaction level: Some Movement level: None Screen need: Needed all the time Day: Thursday 23 September Moving beyond the dominant narrative Today, the […]
A sense of belonging in the communities that surround you is an elemental human need. In this session we are imagining community care as a practice for belonging. Agenda track: 3 Civic imagination, 2 Ontological politics & 4 Heterodox institutions Session type: New narratives Interaction level: Most of the time Movement: None Screen need: Possible […]
Casino Égalité is a dream of strengthening solidarity and sharing within the cultural scene. By celebrating chance and the luck of the draw, the idea is to give art and artists space(s) in which to be unexpected and uncontrolled. Sortition could be a way of governing such spaces to strengthen the feeling of equality, where […]
Fighting climate change with technology and changing consumption behaviour won’t be enough. The pivotal answer may be to finally pursue a world where cultivating better ways of being, for current and future humans, is the goal of social and economic policy. Life Itself is hosting two sessions on this theme of well-being and sustainability. The […]