We, Ana Goidea, Asya Ilgün, Dilan Özkan, Phil Ayres, Svenja Keune, and Laurin Kilbert are organizing the I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp in August and hereby invite you to co-create Part 2 together with us.Dear friends, colleagues, and neighbours!We, Ana Goidea, Asya Ilgün, Dilan Özkan, Phil Ayres, Svenja Keune, and Laurin Kilbert are organizing the I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp in August and hereby invite you to co-create Part 2 together with us.
Integrating post-anthropocentric and multispecies perspectives into our works and everyday lives is one of the biggest challenges we are facing today. There is lots of theory available, but how can we transform our strategies and practices, and how do they feel like in our bodies? How do they look, sound, smell, and taste?
We are of the opinion that in order to address complex and wide ranging dynamics such as the decline of insect population and the destructive ways we relate to ourselves, each other, and the milieu we live with, we need to reconfigure our ways of thinking, doing, and knowing, and harvest the gifts of everyone to access the intelligence of the collective. Furthermore, as the metadesign manifesto argues: “a(A)dapting to change must include re-inventing our practices AND ourselves.”
Since you are an inspiring example with a specific practice that we want to learn from, we want to gather you (researchers, practitioners, enthusiasts, scientists, artists, designers, beekeepers, gardeners, neighbors) on a small farm in Hvalsø, Denmark. Here, we want to spend time with you. You are invited to suggest/host/co-create/participate in events/adventures that expand our capacity to perceive, change perspective, experience, and engage with the living world around us, while having a special focus on insects. We could go for walks to look for their worlds, swim in the nearby lake, forage parts of our food, imagine and embody how bees might experience the world, and design our own rituals that help us strengthen a culture of making offerings and paying attention and gratitude to all the gifts that sustain and nurture us (so called ecosystem services). Additionally, we could listen to stories and presentations that inspire our collective imagination (dreaming). Consequently, we explore ways of relating and living with multispecies in a rural environment and create a program that emerges from within the group and hence reflects the topics and practices that move us right now. Part 2 of the I.N.S.E.C.T. Summercamp focuses on co-creation with you, professionals from different fields and backgrounds. This allows the forming of new relationships, discourses, modes of engagement, and collaborations that will challenge and advance the respective fields.