Synthesis Alter-Eco / Prototyping Social Forms friends and fellow travelers!
Here are the recordings from the two techniques workshops and the curated panel that we convened at the Anticipations Conference ASU
18 November 2022
Special thanks to Muindi Muindi for the lucid and inspiring presentations, and for leading these sessions, with key contributions from Mark Balzart (Austria), Vangelis Lympouridis (California), Desiree Foerster (the Netherlands), and Dulmini Perera (Germany), and with Teoma, John, Satinder as well.
I have to say that our sessions created a buzz at the conference, which had 300 participants from 50+ countries in Asia, Africa, as well as EU, UK and the States. There are several conversations with old and new friends that we may well carry on.
Anticipations 2022 marks the end of this cycle of meetings of Synthesis' Alter-Eco / Prototyping Social Forms. We decided over the past few months that there will be no more regular weekly meetings after this November conference, at least for now. Thanks everyone who participated in this precious stream over the past three years. It’s been an inspiring and comforting incubator for us.
Some of us — Muindi, Desiree, Teoma, John, Satinder, … — expressed interest in working on publications or some sort of seed-balls to share our work from the past few years in more durable and widely accessible forms. (This could be some converntional opportunity like a special issue of Leonardo or something more experimental like a diagrammatic polylogue…)
Everyone is invited to join this — do get in touch if you’re interested. Keep an eye out for this project and other events to come!
