20 21 3 2 1 # 1 6 # 1 7 Antwerp Soundscapes By Michel Kessler & Alessia Bertini Antwerp Soundscapes explores the soundscapes of Antwerp. In this workshop, heterogeneous sounds of different origins will be collected through field recordings and transformed into a playable installation with the aim of intensifying our perception of the city. With the workshop we want to change together the psycho-geographical perception in the city of Antwerp by challenging individuals to tune into acoustic spaces that dissolve the visual boundaries between external and internal worlds. Sound will be understood as a primary element of the spatial structure and aestheticquality of a landscape, no less important for our understanding of ecosystem function than spatial or landscape order. Moreover, it will also be a matter of demonstrating the political potential of soundscapes in urban space and of investigating the creation of new forms of public spheres by means of the immaterial power of sound in a world dominated by the visual. Storytelling for earthly survival By María Mazzanti & Anna Bierler “In these troubling times, the urgency to trouble time, to shake it to its core, and to produce collective imaginaries that undo pervasive conceptions of temporality that take progress as inevitable and the past as something that has passed and is no longer with us is something so tangible, so visceral, that it can be felt in our individual and collective bodies.” ~ Karen Barad With an imminent “apocalypse” coming and survival tactics and lifestyles permeating our cultural and political scenarios, thinking about the end has become, as Mark Bould argues, the central subject of our collective unconscious. From the end of a stable climatic condition, massive extinctions to the downfall of global capitalist economies, the end of life as we know it is deemed terrifying. Still, it serves to think critically about the underlying power structures that hold together problematic practices of architecture and design. Storytelling for earthly survival is a workshop to critically explore ideas of survival, climate catastrophe and anthropocentrism. In the course of 5 days, participants will delve into speculative writing and feminist methodologies as worldbuilding practices to produce a series of texts that delve into ecological violence, non-linear narratives and climatic urgencies. Throughout the week, a series of collaborative reading sessions, writing exercises and explorations of publishing as a site-specific and community-forming practice will occur. The collaborative aspect of the workshop aims to create a temporary community. Instead of focusing on a solution-oriented pedagogy, this approach allows to expose the participants’ backgrounds, ideologies and socio-political contexts, enabling the production of relational and knowledge creation. 1 2 3
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