CRAFTING SPACE FOR THRIVABILITY (TRIVSEL)
BRIDGET M C KENZIE
PLAN FOR THE DAY Part one Talk: How I craft space Task: Affinity Map Part two Talk: About thrivability (Trivsel) Task: Applying systematic thinking to a place with problems Part three Talk: Meet William Blake Task: Applying vision to our place with problems
HOW I TRY TO CRAFT SPACE
WHY WE CHOSE THE NAME FLOW?
CULTURAL & CREATIVE EDUCATION
CREATIVE: HOME: EDUCATION
Alison Gopnik Parent’s role is to be a gardener, to create conditions for exploration, play and growth. Not a carpenter. A parent should not shape a person in your own image.
CULTIVATE: CULTURAL LEARNING IN CHANGING PLACES
LOCAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY: E.G., THE HILL STATION
AND, THE GARLICK MAN
OUR AFFINITY MAP
LANDSCAPE:
what places I care for NETWORK what or who I want to exchange with
CLOSE: what or who I want to keep bonded to
ME: what I want to grow in myself
MY AFFINITY MAP
Forests, coasts, India, Scotland. We are all one! Culture and ecology, green radicals, Dark Mountain Home family. Telegraph Hill community. My colleagues in Flow.
The creative and the thinker in me
WHAT IS THRIVABLE CULTURE? Thrivability (trivsel): a mindset that aims for wellbeing for the many NOT wealth for a few. A Thrivable Culture crafts spaces where people can be well by: • doing what they love, • helping each other and • looking to the future. Culturing thrivability is like gardening.
DYSBIOSIS (IN OUR BODIES, OUR SOIL, OUR WORLD)
WHAT DOES SOIL NEED?
ANT DEATH SPIRAL
BREACHED PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
“There’s a crack, a crack n everything”
Leonard Cohen
BIG PICTURE OF THRIVABILITY
authentic source
authentic source
Exploitation of people
Extraction & accumulation
Global system for growth
Wealth Benefits through 'trickle down', philanthropy
Labour
rhetoric of virtue
rhetoric of virtue
Social mobility Insist on authentic virtue
Shift towards
Wealth for common abundance
Global system for thrivability authentic source
Labour for sufficiency
authentic source
Create, renew & cherish biodiverse ecosystems
Thriving individuals Thriving culture
Thriving communities Thriving places
rhetoric of virtue
Wellbeing Reduced consumption
Self-care, joy, simple pleasures
hedonic
Bigger-than-self purpose
eudaemonic
Eco-social Innovation
authentic source
authentic source
Exploitation of people
Extraction & accumulation
Global system for growth
Wealth Benefits through 'trickle down', philanthropy
Labour
rhetoric of virtue
rhetoric of virtue
Social mobility Insist on authentic virtue
Shift towards
Wealth for common abundance
Global system for thrivability authentic source
Labour for sufficiency
authentic source
Create, renew & cherish biodiverse ecosystems
Thriving individuals Thriving culture
rhetoric of virtue
Thriving communities Thriving places
mobility
'trickle down', philanthropy
Insist on authentic virtue
Shift towards
Wealth for common abundance
Global system for thrivability authentic source
Labour for sufficiency
authentic source
Create, renew & cherish biodiverse ecosystems
Thriving individuals Thriving culture
Thriving communities Thriving places
rhetoric of virtue
Wellbeing Reduced consumption
Self-care, joy, simple pleasures
hedonic
Bigger-than-self purpose
eudaemonic
Eco-social Innovation
Thriving people …RELATE, empathise, communicate and care for …BE ABLE with self and their bodies, others develop physical & manual skills People will and maintain notice… health feel…
…LEARN, think critically, enquire & access knowledge
…CREATE designs and artworks, stories and ideas
Thriving cultures
think…
…APPRECIATE, act… protect, …USE and interpret and IMPROVE tools add to tangible …so that they can & technologies and intangible CULTURE. STEWARD and …CONTRIBUTE as an active REGENERATE collaborative ecosystems citizen to and the living community/ies planet
Thriving planet
Thriving places & economies
ARNE NAESS: THE ECOLOGICAL SELF Naess proposes an addition to the normal dimensions of self. Any transformation approach should help people optimize all four: • Egotistic self • Social self • Metaphysical self • Ecological self – provides integrity, grounding and connection
A GREENHEARTED HEIRARCHY OF NEEDS? Metaphysical
Ecological Physiological Egotistic
Social
APPLIED TO PROBLEMS AFFECTING CHILDREN TODAY Dimension of self Problem Egotistic
Lack of free will
Physiological
Poor nutrition Lack of movement Toxic environment
Social
Individualistic achievement culture
Metaphysical
Imagination repressed by schooling
Ecological
Lack of connection to a thriving natural world
Symptoms more treatable by intervention
And antibiotics
Root causes less treatable by intervention
TASK: 1. Choose a situation or place: Local or further away? A problem in a place, or a place with a problem? 2. Together, use a systematic ecological approach to analyse the problem 3. What interventions will be most effective to make it thrive? Does this involve ‘space craft’?
VISION AND IMAGINATION • What if we stimulated imaginations? • Would we see more solutions and make more thriving places? “Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death” William Blake
WILLIAM BLAKE
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
He combined text and image in his prints. Invented his own mythology. Urizen embodies conventional reason and law.
REVELATION AND EMERGENCE Revelation for Blake: not a prediction of the end of the world, but describing honestly what you see in the world and in your imagination, and seeking to improve on it. Emergence: Current idea, the role of imagination in generating what didn’t exist before, or ‘more elegantly ordered complexity’ Pre-frontal cortex is very new in evolutionary terms. It gives ability to think abstractly, to imagine.
IMAGINING PREFERABLE FUTURES “When you are in the experience of creating beauty that didn’t exist before in the universe that adds to the universe, that’s uniquely yours to create, you feel a kind of aliveness that’s not matched by anything else. In lieu of not doing that, the emptiness causes all kinds of addiction.” Daniel Schmachtenberger
JILL PETO: MASH-UP OF DATA + ART
MEL CHIN PROPOSES SOLAR CURRENCY FOR SAHARA PEOPLE
ECO INNOVATION AT PHILLIPS
SEASTEADING
THEO JANSEN
WHAT CAN WE DO WITH DRAWING? “In a world in which we need, more and more, to deal with enormity, to leave behind outmoded, linear thinking; we need to adopt habits and methods that promote seeing things whole, even as we deal with details; deal with the fine grain while not losing sight of the big picture.� Antonio Dias, in Drawing Distinctions, his call for drawing for everyone
TASK: DRAWING ON IMAGINATION 1. Third eye drawing – what emerges in your inner eye when you focus on ‘trivsel’ 2. What colours, movements, sensations, smells, symbols? Draw freely 3. Then, step back to the problem place. What new insights do you have?