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. Agenda track: 2 Ontological politics, 3 Civic imagination Session type: New narratives Interaction level: […]
Untitled’s resident poet Associate is back. Associate creates an experimental and poetic digital documentation from the various discussions that take place within the Untitled events. Associate is at the same time an independent artwork and experimental documentation of the festival. It is displayed online at associate.associates The recorded discussions in Untitled meetings and festival events are […]
Can a city offer its citizens different ways of gathering around shared visions, common questions and collective imaginations? Agenda track: 3 Civic imagination Session type: New experimental models Interaction level: Some Movement level: None Screen need: Possible to have audio only Day: Friday 24 September at 10-11.30 UTC | 13-14.30 EEST We are living through […]
Time to practice softness and being present and intentional in your hearing. Agenda track: 3 Civic imagination & 4 Heterodox institutions Session type: New perspectives Interaction level: Most of the time Movement: None Screen need: Needed all the time Day: Thursday 23 September, 15–16.30 UTC | 18-19.30 EEST In this session we investigate how to […]
Speculative Sketching is a 10-minute creative writing exercise led by Corey Chao from Reboot to tone our futuring muscles before immersing in the content of a festival session or to synthesis a session collectively. Each participant picks from a set of prompts to write a very short narrative from the point of view of a […]
How can we provide care to an aging population? What does the future of fair work look like? These are big questions facing the Western world. The mainstream fit-for-all solution of the past decades appears to be “efficiency”, treating care provision and almost any work the same as producing cars in a factory. Autonomy, an […]
The Free House project is a speculative, experimental idea for a new tenure model for housing; combining the concepts of stewardship, perpetual bond finance and zero-carbon construction. The project is aimed to build a single prototype house as a demonstrator of this new reality, with the home itself being represented as a digital autonomous organisation […]
For those who are looking to enable a just and regenerative world, it is critical that we find ways to be closing the regenerative cycle. Agenda track: 4 Heterodox institutions & 1 Nature – human Session type: new perspectives Interaction level: Most of the time Movement level: None Screen need: Needed all the time Day: Friday […]
In Western cultures people have been indoctrinated to believe that rationality ought to govern the body, mind and emotions. This tradition originates from Plato, who glorified the rational and laid ground for the supremacy and social status of those who suppress their feelings, obey the results of their deductive rationalizations and keep with a restrained […]
According to research, climate change is a truly shared worry among citizens. We have looked for the solutions to come from consumers, from regulators, from investors. But as climate change keeps increasing and biodiversity diminishing, Service Union United PAM thinks we need to expand agency to tackle this issue. Employees – those same citizens that […]