July 2024: Ideations
On three separate occasions in July 2024, three different groups immersed themselves in LABIOMISTA. Their joined objective: to think and dream about the meaning of Future Garden. In the freedom of art, in the encounter with the other. Each group claimed a different identity. The results of their reflections and dialogues were stored in drawings, installations, dance, text and video. Their ideations were presented to a transdisciplinary team of artists and scientists in July 2024.
An inviting reflection
By facilitator Emile von Schomberg
As if it wasn’t already challenging enough to find a holy grail answer to what “Future Gardens” should look like, here is a first thank you to Koen by setting the bar high and hosting us in his own, LABIOMISTA. This thought-provoking setting has only made it more challenging to think about our relation to the world as human beings. All our surroundings have continuously highlighted the tensions between freedom and danger, domestication and wilderness, the local and the global, to name just a few. These are tensions that belong to the solutions we explore for Future Gardens, for future society, and ultimately, for our role as future humans – tensions that are pertinent to the unthinkable, and to this year’s edition: Future Gardens.
How do we – as human beings - relate with nature, our environment, to ourselves and others? How can we bridge the present with the future, and yet understand our track record of bridging the past to the present. Or is the notion of “future” an irrelevant linear construct, as multiple people had already pointed out within the first few hours in the thinking boxes. ....
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