21 Selected Concepts

Driving the Human’s 21 selected concepts present a diverse understanding of our times and propose prescient visions for sustainable cohabitation. They explore the connections between technology and nature, artificial intelligence, circular economy, new modes of knowledge exchange and production, indigenous knowledge, and more-than-human perspectives from the bacterial to the interplanetary. Overall, they reinforce the importance of collaboration and interdependency as essential factors for survival.

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I : Towards Earthly Technosymbiogenesis

Matthew C. Wilson

Do AIs Dream of Climate Chaos: Symbiotic AI

Xiaoyu Iris Qu (曲晓宇)

Down to the Economy

Vienne Chan and Katja Meier

Dissuasion Engine

Chris Salter, Erik Adigard and Alexandre Quessy

Habit@

Yasmine Abbas and DK Osseo-Asare

Habitat Theatre: How to Transform a Territory into a Stage – A Manual

Initiative for Applied Melancholy (Barbara Boss, Damiàn Dlaboha, Maximilian Grünewald, Mira Hirtz and Béla Rothenbühler)

Human-Bacteria Interfaces: An exploration of the present and future of human-microbial ecosystems

Anne-Sofie Belling, Bea Delgado Corrales, Romy Kaiser and Paula Nerlich

Indigenous Language of Taşlıca: A Case of Interspecies Communication

Eylül Şenses

Monsters and Ghosts of the Far North

alternaA (Andra Pop-Jurj and Lena Geerts Danau)

Planetary Personhood — A Universal Declaration of Martian Rights

Nonhuman Nonsense

Sedekah Benih

Vincent Rumahloine and Mang Dian

Ripple, Ripple, Rippling

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan

RUM_A: Multispecies Urban Refuge in Cluster

Clara Acioli

Server Farm

James Bridle

Superlocal — 0 miles production

Andrea de Chirico

The Backpack of Wings: Modern Mythology

Hyeseon Jeong and Seongmin Yuk

The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures

Sonia Mehra Chawla, Miriam Walsh (ASCUS Art & Science) in collaboration with Ray Interactive

The Tropical Turn—Maneuvers for a Planetary Embodiment

Juan Pablo García Sossa

Toxicity Distributed — Post-extractivism Economies

AHORA (Linda Schilling Cuellar and Claudio Astudillo Barra)

TRONS ‘R’ US

Akwasi Bediako Afrane

Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning

Eliana Otta

I : Towards Earthly Technosymbiogenesis

Matthew C. Wilson

Two interconnected phenomena will shape the foreseeable future: anthropogenic climate change and the rise of artificial intelligence. It is crucial to work through the affinities and antagonisms of these interpenetrating forces.

Do AIs Dream of Climate Chaos: Symbiotic AI

Xiaoyu Iris Qu (曲晓宇)

Do AIs Dream of Climate Chaos investigates the contradictions in a machine learning system. Given sufficient data, how would AI compute its existence?

Down to the Economy

Vienne Chan and Katja Meier

What would our societies and economies look like if they were designed by those with Down Syndrome?

Dissuasion Engine

Chris Salter, Erik Adigard and Alexandre Quessy

How will your next online purchase decision impact your future and that of the planet?

Habit@

Yasmine Abbas and DK Osseo-Asare

Habit@ is a lightweight para-structure or three-dimensional “skin” that modulates environmental ambiance (“spatial æffects”) to create architectural atmospheres reflecting the many threads humans can weave between their consciousness and environment.

Habitat Theatre: How to Transform a Territory into a Stage – A Manual

Initiative for Applied Melancholy (Barbara Boss, Damiàn Dlaboha, Maximilian Grünewald, Mira Hirtz and Béla Rothenbühler)

Habitat Theatre is the epicentre of Anthropos Ex – a long-term project in search for a theatre of the Anthropocene.

Human-Bacteria Interfaces: An exploration of the present and future of human-microbial ecosystems

Anne-Sofie Belling, Bea Delgado Corrales, Romy Kaiser and Paula Nerlich

Human-Bacteria Interfaces introduces the novel concept of human-bacteria interfaces within the context of the built environment.

Indigenous Language of Taşlıca: A Case of Interspecies Communication

Eylül Şenses

Focusing on Taşlıca village in Bozburun Peninsula, the project will explore the rooted interrelations among various species and the interspecies communication methods in the indigenoues production landscapes of Anatolia.

Monsters and Ghosts of the Far North

alternaA (Andra Pop-Jurj and Lena Geerts Danau)

Monsters and Ghosts of the Far North searches for an alternative cartography through which we can rethink relationships across species in the Arctic region, and beyond.

Planetary Personhood — A Universal Declaration of Martian Rights

Nonhuman Nonsense

Can we be kind to a planet, even without “life”? Planetary Personhood is an interplanetary campaign pursuing radical space decolonization.

Sedekah Benih

Vincent Rumahloine and Mang Dian

The aim of Sedekah Benih is to preserve traditional ecological knowledge, to generate appreciation for tiis leungeun (a call to people who excel at working with plants), and to connect people through food.

Ripple, Ripple, Rippling

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan

How might the situated making of particular futures at specific sites constitute alternative imaginaries to the dominant narratives of the future?

RUM_A: Multispecies Urban Refuge in Cluster

Clara Acioli

RUM_A: Multispecies Urban Refuge in Cluster is a project about the importance of consciously and dialogically coexisting with other living beings as a strategy for survival and reversal of the anthropocene.

Server Farm

James Bridle

Server Farm is a proposal to build a computer out of, and in collaboration with, plants and other critters.

Superlocal — 0 miles production

Andrea de Chirico

Superlocal — 0 miles production is a global network questioning and exploring the possibility of producing everyday-life objects locally.

The Backpack of Wings: Modern Mythology

Hyeseon Jeong and Seongmin Yuk

The Backpack of Wings: Modern Mythology represents the speculative future scenarios, which are collisions and integrations between a bio-geo tracking technology for wild animals in scientific fields and an animism in seismic disaster myth in East Asia.

The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures

Sonia Mehra Chawla, Miriam Walsh (ASCUS Art & Science) in collaboration with Ray Interactive

The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the fragile and endangered coastal ecosystems and wetland habitats of India and Scotland, and their vital role in building resilience to climate change.

The Tropical Turn—Maneuvers for a Planetary Embodiment

Juan Pablo García Sossa

The Tropical Turn—Maneuvers for a Planetary Embodiment is a thought experiment and research project that explores other modes of coexistence between all forms of life on the planet from a Tropikós perspective by repositioning a multiplicity of cosmologies.

Toxicity Distributed — Post-extractivism Economies

AHORA (Linda Schilling Cuellar and Claudio Astudillo Barra)

Toxicity Distributed explores future economies through a new array of green new deal transition jobs that deal with mining environmental liabilities.

TRONS ‘R’ US

Akwasi Bediako Afrane

A project that seeks to investigate and explore the relationship between humans, technology and our environment.

Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning

Eliana Otta

Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning was created with the intention of commemorating the deaths of indigenous leaders and environmental activists assassinated in recent years in Peru, while defending their territories from deforestation, mining, and drug trafficking.