The bulk of the workshop is divided into two sections: Context & Design.
0. Introductions
I. Context (50-60%)
Objective: re-frame our current situation in terms of “deeper” functional and historical relationships; realize some points of leverage and intervention that might otherwise remain hidden.
This section alternates between:
A. Small-group active learning: create a new “snapshot” of present-day social and ecological relationships using the Daylighting mapping exercises.
B. Lecturette: illustrate and explain long-term trajectories in human cultural evolution along key variables; show relationship between social caste and ecological extraction.
II. Design (40-50%)
Objective: foster opportunities for new interventions; bridge knowledge gained in first section with thinking about current and desired projects.
This section follows a similar pattern of alternation between interaction and presentation, with less small-group discussion, and more large-group.
A. Offer design criteria, tools, and techniques, to frame the transition from theory to application, and stimulate fresh and provocative project ideas.
B. Discuss, dissect, experimentally adopt, playfully provoke: wrestle with questions of application in our lives and projects.
D. Review currently existing projects that can function as models and inspirations for our work.
E. Invite and challenge participants to articulate daring desires, concrete goals, and doable next steps, in order to bring the work home and into their lives and projects.
III. Feedback and Closing
