On Care of our Commons Home: Storying alternative futures for the commons (part of doing together 24)
On Care of our Commons Home: Storying alternative futures for the commons
Workshop with Sharon Gardham as part of doing together 24
Friday 5 April 2024
In the 2021 novel, 'Notes from the Burning Age', Claire North imagines a post-climate disaster world where life for many of Earth's inhabitants is underpinned by human and more-than-human communality, gratitude, and reciprocity. During this event, we explored whether we can imagine a near future society based on these ideals, as a means of averting further climate disaster rather than recovering from it. Via stories, images and sounds we brought to life the tale of an historical and present day communal resource; Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire. We joined it on a journey that began millennia before the arrival of the first humans, developed as humans and other animals co-created with the land, before bringing us to the challenges of the present day. As a group, we then imagined the possibilities for Rodborough's future: What will be its fate? Will it fall victim to further exploitation, overuse and overconsumption, or will it become a beacon of hope; a model of a different way of being with the earth? Or maybe something else? |
doing together 24
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.
Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.
Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.
