The metaphor of the “storm” and the accompanying social cartography of (shit) storm categories seeks to capture the multiple, converging crises that we collectively face, but that we experience in highly uneven ways. The storm is more than just a temporary crisis that can be managed with existing tools and strategies. While there is an …
The social cartographies below (that are still work in progress) show two iterations of our attempts to map problematic (i.e. extractive and instrumentalizing) aspects of engagements with Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing and being, and to articulate, in the "Towards Braiding" possibility, the commitments and dispositions that would be necessary to create the conditions …
Who is Haruko? This accord was developed by Haruko Okano as part of the Thread Artist Residency (funded by the Musagetes Foundation), in collaboration with the GTDF collective. Haruko is an established visual and community artist and QiGong practitioner in what is currently known as Canada. Her accord is the invitation of an elder for …
Identifying colonial behaviours, responses and dispositions How can we respect the pace and readiness of people’s learning while being accountable to those negatively affected by this learning and its pace? With/Out modernity deck of cards The radars described in this text were created to pre-empt common behaviours, narratives and/or dispositions that are usually perceived as …
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Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures 