CRAFTING FUTURES

Immersive workshop, 2021
⭢ in collaboration with Foresta Seasonal Academy

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“How can we begin to move towards ecological and cultural sustainability if we cannot imagine what the path feels like?”, asks Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’. Merging the poetic and the practical, we invite you to join the spring trail for envisioning and thinking your projects, rooted in embodied and embedded awareness, ecological imagination and hands-on practices with vibrant matter, where sensing, thinking and forming of forms is one process.

Spring trail will unfold in collaboration with creators, makers and visionaries for ecological futures: Sérgio Lemos, Evey Kwong [futurprimitiv], Lauren MacDonald, Sophie MacNeill, Richard Skelton, Stephen Wright and Anastassia Zamaraeva.

Trail description:
Everything is connected. Place — Plants — People. Recognising that we are part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look like, we could go a long way as individuals and community to connect to Earth on a local, personal level.

Exploring possibilities of the overlooked local foraged treasures, on this trail, sensual and practical experiments were invoked to create woven objects by drawing metaphorical connections.

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Foresta Academy is an international learning community co-creating experiences dedicated to cultural transformation towards multi-layered sustainability mindset within the hybrid field. This work is rooted in values of ecosystems awareness, embodied culture, as well as art thinking and making. Based on resonances rather than institutional divisions, we are exploring new forms around questions how do we want to live, work and learn in more conscious, regenerative, and creative ways.

Concept and teaching by Evey Kwong
Curation by Sabina Enéa Téari, Foresta Collective

Visual by Evey Kwong

INTERWOVENNESS

Immersive workshop, 2021
⭢ die Junge Akademie

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Interwovenness is an investigative project led by ideas, material, methodologies, process and epistemologies to inquire on the language of weaving.

The metaphor of interweaving plays a central role in the humanities and social sciences, including science and digitalization research. At the same time, weaving operate in a field of tension between craft, art, and self-actualization. The project explores the potential of this metaphor not only intellectually-conceptually, but also experimentally: How does our thinking about autonomy and heteronomy, the inclusion and presuppositionality of things in infrastructures change through metaphors of interweaving and interwovenness?

In a first closed workshop on February 12th, this field of tension will be examined by looking at different weaving and braiding techniques with designer crafts practitioner Evey Kwong. After the first workshop, there is a further three-day workshop planned, open to all Junge Akademie members and alumni.

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Junge Akademie is the first academy of young academics worldwide. It provides interdisciplinary and socially relevant spaces for outstanding young academics from German-speaking countries.

A project by Die Junge Akademie led by:
Lara Keuck [HU Berlin]
Stefanie Büchner [Leibniz University Hannover]
Michael Bies [FU Berlin]

Curation & teaching by Evey Kwong

Session #01 impressions

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Visual by Evey Kwong

CRAFTING FUTURES

Immersive workshop, 2021
⭢ in collaboration with Foresta Seasonal Academy

Visual by Evey Kwong

INTERWOVENNESS

Immersive workshop, 2021
⭢ die Junge Akademie

•
Interwovenness is an investigative project led by ideas, material, methodologies, process and epistemologies to inquire on the language of weaving.

The metaphor of interweaving plays a central role in the humanities and social sciences, including science and digitalization research. At the same time, weaving operate in a field of tension between craft, art, and self-actualization. The project explores the potential of this metaphor not only intellectually-conceptually, but also experimentally: How does our thinking about autonomy and heteronomy, the inclusion and presuppositionality of things in infrastructures change through metaphors of interweaving and interwovenness? In a first closed workshop on February 12th, this field of tension will be examined by looking at different weaving and braiding techniques with designer crafts practitioner Evey Kwong.

After the first workshop, there is a further three-day workshop planned, open to all Junge Akademie members and alumni.

Session #01 impression

Junge Akademie is the first academy of young academics worldwide. It provides interdisciplinary and socially relevant spaces for outstanding young academics from German-speaking countries.

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A project by Die Junge Akademie led by: Lara Keuck [HU Berlin], Stefanie Büchner [Leibniz University Hannover], Michael Bies [FU Berlin].
Curation & teaching by Evey Kwong.