Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 25 October
11:00 – 18:00
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
· The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
· ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
· Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
Eugenia Morpurgo (Venice): Intentional Uncertainties. Biobased materials between caring and extractive practices.
12:00 – 14:00
The increasingly pressing ecological crisis requires design to question dominant production models, moving towards the use of biobased materials and the reorganisation of local and circular supply chains. With my work, I argue that such strategies, based on the principle of substitution, are not sufficient unless accompanied by a shift away from systems based on certainty in favour of approaches capable of embracing uncertainty as a necessary condition for embedding production within complex ecologies. Looking at plant and animal-based materials samples, we will critically discuss concepts such as regeneration, renewability, circularity, and bioregionalism, exploring how commoning practices allow us to embrace intentional uncertainties together.
Lunch prepared by Diana Voicu
14:00 – 15:00
V. Leac (Bucharest): Transplantation
15:00 – 16:00
The action that I propose is one of replacing the dead trees from the Spring Entrance Community land parcels with new trees from the same species brought from the edges of the nearby forest, saplings used to drought and high summer temperatures, and which have higher chances of survival. I will transplant 6 saplings from different species, or more of the same species, depending on the needs observed, replacing those affected by drought. Besides the 6 saplings, I propose planting 3 pecans, a species locally acclimatized and very resistant to drought. My action can extend until December, when the planting will stop, so I can plant more specimens.
Andreea David (București): Collective dreaming - methods for radical imagination - an embodied collective dream practice
16:00 – 18:00
A political alternative to individual dreams can be those that are collective. Common dreams can tie us on an unconscious, uncontrollable level. How can we weave in the common unconscious imaginary, and how can we rewrite the essential ingredients: care and trust that keep alive the reality of hope?
People can rather imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Maybe we are in a full crisis of imagination, although it shouldn’t be so hard to imagine a world without injustices. And if on an individual level we don’t trust in our power to change something, maybe we have more chances to find it in collectivity.
Production: Atelier Ad Hoc Community (George Marinescu and Daria Oancea), Dan Vezentan, Eduard Constantin, Mihaela Moldovan
Curation and management: Adelina Luft, Maria Mora, Raluca Voinea
Documentation: Nicoleta Moise and Andrei Becheru
Partners: The Faculty of Interior Architecture (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism), The Italian Institute in Bucharest, OAR (The Romanian Order of Architects)
Cultural programme co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund
The program does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the program's content or any use to which the program outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
