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Location
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
Event Website
https://liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss/events/climate-futures-ii
Start Date
5-12-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
5-12-2019 1:20 PM
Document Type
Video
Description
In the 1960s, Murray Bookchin argued that a post-capitalist ecological society would have to incorporate automation plus liberatory eco-technologies to provide the infrastructure of a new ecological society. Eco-design and eco-technology running alongside much broader forms of social change could not only reawaken humanity’s sense of dependence on the environment but restore selfhood and competence to a “client citizenry.” Contemporary debates on the socio-technical infrastructure that could underpin survivable futures have become increasingly anxious, ill-tempered and polemical. Whether we consider debates around 100% renewables or 100% clean, lab meat or the future of agriculture, either/or logics would seem to run through the ever sharper exchanges between de-growthers and ecomodernists. A worsening climate crisis is clearly exacerbating the stakes of the discussion and acting as a ratchet forcing reframings of our understanding of acceptable and unacceptable technologies. In this session we explore what exactly it might mean to advocate for liberatory technologies, design justice and a progressive technological politics in an age of climate chaos and cyborg ecologies.
Sponsored by the Division of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design
File Type
mp4
Run Time
1 hr 9 min 25 sec
Speakers
Speakers:
- Kai Bosworth (School of World Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University) “Envisioning energy transformation: From the modern infrastructure ideal to liberatory technologies”
- Sasha Costanza-Chock (Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Design Justice for the Green New Deal”
- Holly Jean Buck (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles) “Why we need to think in progressive utopian ways about carbon removal technologies”
- Sophie Lewis “Amniotechnics”
Climate Futures 2 | Design Politics, Design Natures, Aesthetics and the Green New Deal, Session 3: Liberatory Ecotechnologies, Cyborg Ecologies and the Green New Deal
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
In the 1960s, Murray Bookchin argued that a post-capitalist ecological society would have to incorporate automation plus liberatory eco-technologies to provide the infrastructure of a new ecological society. Eco-design and eco-technology running alongside much broader forms of social change could not only reawaken humanity’s sense of dependence on the environment but restore selfhood and competence to a “client citizenry.” Contemporary debates on the socio-technical infrastructure that could underpin survivable futures have become increasingly anxious, ill-tempered and polemical. Whether we consider debates around 100% renewables or 100% clean, lab meat or the future of agriculture, either/or logics would seem to run through the ever sharper exchanges between de-growthers and ecomodernists. A worsening climate crisis is clearly exacerbating the stakes of the discussion and acting as a ratchet forcing reframings of our understanding of acceptable and unacceptable technologies. In this session we explore what exactly it might mean to advocate for liberatory technologies, design justice and a progressive technological politics in an age of climate chaos and cyborg ecologies.
Sponsored by the Division of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_climatefutures/climatefutures2019/climatefutures2019symposium/4