<b>On Care of our Commons Home: Storying alternative futures for the commons</b> (part of doing together 24)

<p dir="ltr"><b>On Care of our Commons Home: Storying alternative futures for the commons</b></p><p dir="ltr">Workshop with Sharon Gardham as part of doing together 24</p><p dir="ltr">Friday 5 April 2024</p><table><tr><td><p dir="ltr">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.   </p><p dir="ltr">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.   </p><p dir="ltr">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?   </p></td></tr></table><p dir="ltr"><b>doing together 24</b><br><i>doing tog</i><i>ether</i> is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/student-life/campuses/locksbrook-campus/" target="_blank">Locksbrook Campus</a>, hosted by the <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/centre-for-cultural-and-creative-industries/" target="_blank">Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries</a> in collaboration with <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/bath-school-of-art-film-and-media/" target="_blank">Bath School of Art, Film and Media</a> and <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/bath-school-of-music-and-performing-arts/" target="_blank">Bath School of Music and Performing Arts</a>.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. <i>doing together</i><i> </i>is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.</p><p dir="ltr">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.</p>