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Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
multispeciesworldbuilding.comI am very grateful that I had that scientific exposure initially because it helped me to appreciate the distinctiveness of the spaces I am in now, of the value of triangulating, of the value of bringing together people from very different knowledge spaces or terrains into the same room to just address these wicked problems we were talking about bef... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
ON REBUILDING & METAPHORS
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
I’m not sure that I have a fixed position. I’m not really an advocate or an evangelist for any one of these positions. I know students really love thinking about working in interdisciplinary ways, and I always want to encourage that in my classes. And I know we’re going to talk about teaching in a bit, but I also always have to offer the caveat is ... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
I need a greater facility with multispecies languages. I am engaging in a conversation across cultural divides with other multitudes, whose languages and modes of perception we have only just begun to explore.
David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
I have been thinking primarily about how the pandemic has changed the way we think about cities and ecologies. What metaphors are actually useful in thinking about this moment, this era of rebuilding, of worldmaking to use a central theme for your project.
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
ON GENERALISM & INTER-DISCIPLINARY THINKING I would say I am anti-disciplinary just as much as I may be anti-academy or anti-institutional.
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
Octavia Butler (amb)
All successful life is (Fractal)
Adaptable, (Adaptive)
Opportunistic, (Nonlinear/Iterative)
Tenacious, (Resilient/Transformative Justice)
Interconnected, and (Interdependent/Decentralized)
Fecund. (Creates More Possibilities)
Understand this. (Scholarship, Reflection)
Use it. (Practice/Experiment)
Shape God. (Intention)
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really be... See more