Join the ecologies, technologies online sessions
The online sessions are free & open to all.
Online sessions run on Wednesdays at 8 pm UTC.
Ecologies, Technologies is an experimental programme exploring the polycultures of ecology and technology hosted online and at Schumacher College with the Ecological Design Thinking MA. All are welcome to join the online sessions via zoom.
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Recordings from previous zoom sessions below.
Bioleft
Session 1: In the soil: Bioleft's Almendra Cremaschi
25 January, 2023
An invitation to learn with Bioleft's team leader Almendra Cremaschi about Bioleft's network of plant breeders and a seed archive growing a protected commons in germplasm.
In conversation with Becky Ayre and Kate Genevieve from Ecologies, Technologies, Almendra goes into the origins and development of Bioleft as they fight for open source creativity, living alternatives for the soil and resist the relentless financialisation of natural resources and patenting of seeds.
Watch the the session recording on PeerTube:
the Sphere
Session 2: Spheres within spheres: The Sphere with Ecologies, Technologies
8 February, 2023
A conversation with The Sphere, a wildly imaginative project growing new ecologies of funding for the circus arts. Érik Bordeleau presents The Sphere’s evolution, ethos and experiments in funding using web3 technologies to support commons-oriented economies redistribute the risks and opportunities of making art together. Lene Vollhardt reflects on her work with LARP - Live Action Role Playing - at the ConTempo Festival Kaunas, Lithuania exploring The Sphere’s future as a DAO. This session continues a conversation with Ecologies, Technologies, with input from many artists and activists from The Sphere community.
Some edits included for Accessibility.
Oceania
The first session of the day for Saturday's hybrid programme during the Small is Beautiful weekend at Schumacher College / Dartington.
Artist and acoustic ecologist, Leah Barclay, in conversation with Mix Irving around creative technologies in service to communities and cultural knowledge, with a welcome from Intercreate’s Trudy Lane.
Leah presents her creative collaborative research project Beeyali, a call to look after Country and its endangered ecosystems. Mix walks us through the work of Āhau, a Data Platform developed in Aotearoa (New Zealand) that helps whānau-based communities record and preserve histories.
Some edits included for Accessibility.
"An ecology properly understood can be nothing other than a technology."
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Sense of the World