#1 WATER
October 10, 2024
The theme of the first public event of the Design + Posthumanism Network is water, since water captures both the concreteness and philosophical underpinnings of posthuman design. Concretely, all life on earth needs water for its survival – and the uneven distribution of freshwater makes evident global inequalities. Metaphorically, water lends itself for discussing posthuman concepts of connection, interdependence, transformation, movement and leakage.
Act 1 – FLOWING
Negotiating Entangled Encounters on a More-Than-Human Planet
Act 2 – MELTING
ICE * In Case of Emergency by Sympoietic Society
Act 3 – LEAKING
Frictional water practices in the Global South