World-Making Workshop

world
making
workshop

Ursula K. Le Guin (1989) Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Donna Haraway (2017) Making Oddkin: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

> Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby (2013). Speculative Everthing. (hard copy available)
> Seetal Solanki (2018). Why Materials Matter. (hard copy available)
> Charles Avery (2018). Onomatopoeia. Its people and surroundings. (hard copy available)
> Laboria Cuboniks (2018). Xenofeminist Manifesto. (hard copy available)
> Donna Haraway (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene.
> Anna Tsing (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World.
> Timothy Morton
Being Ecological (2018). (hard copy available)
Hyperobjects. Philosophy and Ecology at the End of the World (2013).
> Rosa Braidotti (2019). Posthuman Knowledge.

		science fiction / speculative fiction

	

> Nnedi Okorafor (2015). Lagoon. (hard copy available)
> Ursula K. Le Guin:
The Word for World is Forest
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed
> Margaret Atwood. Maddaddam Trilogy.
> Nalo Hopkinson. Midnight Robber.
> Grace Dillon (2012). Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
> Alexis Lothian (2018). Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
> adrienne maree brown & Walidah Imarisha (eds.) (2015). Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements.
> Shelley Streeby (2018). Imagining the Future of Climate Change. World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism.

		INTRODUCTION

	

During this workshop, students from artistic and academic disciplines collaborate to imagine new worlds through critical making. Drawing inspiration from the worldmaking practices of Science Fiction authors, filmmakers, musicians, visual artists and designers who question the status quo in their works, students start from the premise that humans are no longer seen as the center of everything. What would the world be like if anthropocentrism did not exist - if humans, non-humans and machines were seen as equal parts of the same web?

create

reflect

		PEOPLE
	

		BOOKS CHAPTERS ARTICLES TEXTS
	

		FILM ART MUSIC DESIGN WEBSITES TECHNOLOGY AND EVERYTHING ELSE
	

NEUHAUS | HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT

Starting in the Spring of 2019, exactly 100 years after the foundation of Bauhaus, Het Nieuwe Instituut transforms into Neuhaus, a temporary transdisciplinary academy for more-than-human knowledge. For a period of four months, this ever-evolving learning environment takes over the institution, occupying and transforming its existing building and facilities, adding new ones, and opening them up - to co-create, co-own, share, and perform the Neuhaus programme of more-than-human knowledge.

ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING

TIMOTHY MORTON

SenseLab

Based in Montreal, the SenseLab is an international network of artists and academics, writers and makers, from a wide diversity of fields, working together at the crossroads of philosophy, art, and activism.

Posthuman Knowledge (2019)

Ekow Eshun on Afrofuturism
"There is a desire among black people to make the world over"

		AFROFUTURISM

	

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

SUN RA

Afrofuturism is the reimagining of a future filled with arts, science and technology seen through a black lens. The term was conceived a quarter-century ago by white author Mark Dery in his essay “Black to the Future,” which looks at speculative fiction within the African diaspora.

			Björk & Timothy Morton

			Letters on music, aesthetics, ecology, philosophy, religion, politics...

Donna Haraway (2016). Staying with Trouble: Making Kin in the Chtulucene

Article from The Guardian:
'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album

		This webpage is a work in progress. Feel free to add anything that inspires you and that you think is related to the topic. 
	

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Braidotti & Hlavajova (2018). Posthuman Glossary

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> Fyodor Dostoevsky (1877). The Dream of a Ridiculous man. (pdf available online)

Francesco's archive I created a website to show all my process during my study.

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