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Monday, June 25, 2012

Pervasive ideas

This text is taken from the RAGA call letter which gives a detailed explanation of our project.


The workshops will follow five “vertical” THEMES

and five “horizontal” PERSPECTIVES




with three PERVASIVE IDEAS that run throughout meeting:

RED &/OR GREEN illustrations: Interdependence; Green aspects of red issues; Red aspects of green issues

WAYS OF SEEING illustrations: Gender; Ethnic groups; Sexual orientation

VOCABULARY illustrations: Words that mislead because they mean different things; Shared concepts for which we have different words.

Perspectives

This text is taken from the RAGA call letter which gives a detailed explanation of our project.


The workshops will follow five “vertical” THEMES:


and five “horizontal”

PERSPECTIVES:


DEGROWTH & CONSUMPTION illustrations: Selling us stuff: the myth of happiness through consumption; Commoditisation and monetisation; Endless growth; What should we produce; A local economy

FAIR SHARES: NORTH & SOUTH illustrations: The maths of consumption & resources; Imperialism & colonialism; Linking north and south issues & campaigns; Indigenous struggles; Women; Minorities
COMMON GOODS & EXTERNALITIES illustrations: Externalities for capitalists; Naturally common goods: air, water, health, education, land; Privatisation of common goods
PROGRESS v NATURE & INDIGENOUS CONSCIOUSNESS illustrations: Progress as destruction & dehumanisation; Humans and the natural ecosystem; natural services; biodiversity; Resources: stripping the earth; Indigenous consciousness, not living in mud huts; Happiness
TOOLS TO FIGHT WITH illustrations: Protest; Civil disobedience; Taking or defending what is ours; Education the masses; Collective work; Elections; Internet

with three PERVASIVE IDEAS that run throughout meeting.

Themes

This text is taken from the RAGA call letter which gives a detailed explanation of our project.



The workshops will follow five “vertical”


THEMES:

ENERGY illustrations: Energy needs; “Fracking” schist gas; Nuclear; Peak oil

WATER & SOIL illustrations: Global perspective; Food production: industrial v local; Fisheries; Soil fertility; Privatization of water; Conflict over water

THE POWER illustrations: Democracy (1848 to 2012?); Autogestion; Active democracy; The state, Male domination; Liberty

GLOBAL WARMING & POLLUTION illustrations: Global warning facts & inaction; Flooding consequences; Food consequences; Climate refugees; Pollution

BIG CAPITAL PROJECTS illustrations: Dams, Airports; Roads and Rail; Power; Urban redevelopment; Mines 



and five "horizontal" PERSPECTIVES

with three PERVASIVE IDEAS that run throughout meeting.