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11. Implications and applications

This week we did group activities in miro. We were separated by interests and I ended up with Anna Cain in the group "More-then-human design processes". After some miroboard exercises and conversations, we had this summary:

Some interesting questions popped up from the exercise:

  • How might we design in a less anthropocentric way?
  • How might we include other species in the design process in a more horizontal way?
  • How may we create projects that simultaneously repair the ecosystem?
  • How can we listen to other species without a common language? How can we alter our sensibility to other ways of expressing?

The theme of multiespecies interactions and the possibilities of simpoiesis (creating with) is what is moving me at this moment of the research. But as I have been working with this subject for almost 3 years and will work with it for at least 2 more years (I'm starting a master with this thematic). I decided pause a little bit and do a brainstorm of the things I would like to work in Fabricademy for the next 3 months. The 3 things that came into my mind was:

  • DREAMS

  • FERMENTATION PROCESSES

  • MYCELIUM (a continuation of my previous works)

The work of thinkers and creators such as biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway, indigenous movement leader Ailton Krenak, anthropologist Anna Tsing, biologist Lynn Margulis, philosopher and anthropologist Bruno Latour, feminist theorist Karen Barad, mycologist Paul Stamets, are important references and inspirations for my research.

I am also very much inspired by "Selvagem - ciclo de estudos sobre a vida" wich is a study group that experience relating knowlages from indigenous perspectives, academic, scientific, traditional and other species perspectives. Selvagem includes conversation circles, publications of journals and books, reading cycles and audiovisual content.

They've made a very beautiful cycle called "Cycle dreams". I am also very interested in the dream as a tool for imagining futures and the importance of dreams for our culture. And very curious about dreams in the indigenous perspectives and also multispecies perspectives. How do other species dream and how this interfeer in their lifes? How to dream worlds?

I then decided to go to the dream path, as I saw Fabricademy as an opportunity to research other subjects of my interest that were just as a note in my notebooks.

DREAMS, then

My first tought was that I wanted to help people to pay more attention to their dreams. And find a way of making tools for imagining new worlds through dreams. So I started studying dreams. And collect some quotes: 

"I would like to communicate to you a place, a practice that can be seen in different cultures of recognizing this institution of dreams not as a day-to-day of sleeping and dreaming, but as a disciplined exercise of searching in the dream guidelines for our day-to-day choices" (Krenak, 2019)

"For some people, the idea of dreaming is to abdicate reality, renunciate the practical sense of life. ALthougt, we can also find those who doesn't see sense in life if not for the dreams, where they can find cure, chants, inspiration or even solutions of practical questions" (Krenak, 2019)

“Dreams have to do with our biopsychological well-being. The dream is an ancestral way of making adaptation, future, alternatives and possibilities. It is important for us to have creativity and cognitive flexibility. And it's not about ourselves, about our own navel, it's about relationships.” Sidarta Ribeiro

Interesting links:

The books and references I would like to study or just take a look:

  • Oráculo da Noite (The oracle of night) - Sidarta Ribeiro
  • A queda do céu: Palavras de um Xamã Yanomami (The falling sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman)- Davi Kopenawa e Bruce Albert
  • 24/7: Late capitalism and the ends of sleep - Jonathan Crary
  • O desejo dos outros (The desire of others) - Hanna Limulja
  • Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (Ideas to postpone the end of the world)- Ailton Krenak
  • Men and his symbols - Carl Jung

A firt list of possible stake holders for this project:

  • pharmaceutical industry - sleeping medicine;
  • ayurvedic medicine methods;
  • textile industry - beddings (if applicable);
  • agroindustry, agroecology and permaculture- palm tree (juçara) farms - food, fibers (if applicable);
  • psicology and neuroscience;
  • handicrafts arts and technologies;
  • cosmovisions and fibers technologies from different brasil and south america ethnies;

FINAL PROJECT PITCH PRESENTATION

Comments after presenting the pitch:

(Cecilia)
<3 dreams! yes! 
check out also oneironautics practices (if you havent yet) many wonderful books on this <3 i have some - one or two also in pdf ;)
everything is possible from this starting base - whats your wish? whats your strongest "dream"
i think the "object" is a fantastic idea - it transform this again back to being a ritual, a conscius choice to decide to dream

(Angela) Congrats Clara ! We have discussed a lot and I forgot saying about the fact that Dream is a function of the Right Side of the Brain, so we can use techniques that access this side of the brain to reach the dreams easily. Let's talk about this.

(Oliver) Really interesting. I think focusing on kids is a good option. I would also suggest to continue trying on yourself what you want to design for kids.

(Olivia) I love this! I also practice dreamwork and study my dreams so If you want someone to talk with about this more to bounce ideas let me know! Excited for what you come up with! 

(Anastasia)
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Last update: 2023-06-29