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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(NON) HUMAN
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TECHNOLOGY
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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