Poetics of Relation

The infrastructure of possibility—the spaces, conditions, practices, rituals, and language (and the networks of practitioners, communities, and organisations that nurture it)—destabilises conventional ways of seeing and knowing the world, and invites us to experience the fullness of reality, beyond the colonial constraints of modernity and its narr... See more

(6) This worldview of a single reality and a single world is profoundly defuturing, to invoke Australian design theorist Fry’s (1999) concept. To recover the ability to imagine other possible futures requires going beyond the modernist ontology of separation and toward an ontology that acknowledges the interdependence of everything that exists. Int

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To find new paths to a life-affirming future, we must learn to think and decide anew and, above all, to create poetically. Such a culture of decision-making will focus on our interconnectedness with the whole of existence and pay attention to the extent to which the field of living is affected.