par Laki, Giulietta ;Nijs, Greg
Référence Diffracting the Critical - STS Hub 2025(March 11 – 14 2025: Berlin), Drift. Sink. Emerge. Repeat. Diffracting the Critical through Multimodal Submersion, A Catalogue to the STS HUB 2025 Exhibition, M. Le Calvé, P. Beck, & R. Stock, Berlin
Publication Publié, 2025-03-07
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Résumé : This multimodal contribution presents three experimental short films which were part of an eighteen-month cocreative research project named specXcraft — short forspeculative crafting for un/common futures. Urban Species — a collective of researchers committed to develop other forms of interaction between different entities in the city — intensively collaborated with three local Brussels NGOs: Natagora, fighting for biodiversity preservation; CVB, acting for social justice through participatory film-making; and Constant, an art-activist group working on and with FLOSS technology. Each organization was asked to bring its unique lens and activist culture into the process of co-developing a speculative method/technique for imagining the futures of Brussels. This wasn’t merely an exercise in speculative thought or prospective ‘visions’; it was first and foremost an embodied and material-semiotic exploration, where stories and scenographies of im/possible futures were physically crafted. As part of the project’s output, three videos were produced by the participants of different workshop tracks. Each of the experimental collective short films testifies how imagination got sparked through matter and, in turn, fostered a tangible engagement with otherwise-possible futures. While the process drew from the fears and desires of each group of participants, specXcraft acted as a sort of prism, gathering and diffracting the different concerns, highlighting differences, frictions and commonalities among struggles for social, technological, environmental and epistemic justice. The latter announced the unfolding and outlining of the un/common character of the manifold im/possible future worlds we came up with throughout the project.

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