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Learning with the Land Symposium at the University of British Columbia is an international gathering grounded in land-based pedagogies and arts-based inquiry, led by Professor Emerita, Dr Rita L. Irwin, Dr Shannon Leddy and PhD Candidate, Nicole Rallis.

EventDISTRACTION

DISTRACTION plugs into the streaming torrent of content and the places our brains go when we want to focus on anything but the thing. You know… the thing you’re supposed to be doing right now? Your distraction of choice might be scrolling, daydreaming or exploring a digital universe. Where are we escaping to? What are we missing in the process? Confusion reigns, disinformation spreads and the truth is called into question. Attention becomes profit-driven, and it is hard to know who is really in control.   Yet we are creative and connective creatures, alive with an incalculable capacity to surprise. Look through a playful lens at the ways we devote our time and find space for ourselves in an increasingly nonsensical world. When we are bouncing around the whirring, flashing, pinball machine of existence,  is our wayward attention a way of coping with the  chaos?   Through local and international experimental projects – some developed in conversation with scientists and researchers – you are invited to participate in your own way. The time here is yours, what do you want to do with it?

EventHAK.io workshop 1: Science Gallery Bengaluru

EventHacking the Anthropocene: Climate stories between art and science

At the intersection of creative and scientific inquiry lies innovative ways to approach and understand climate change. The Speculative Wanderings in Space and Place (SWISP) Lab has created a climate curriculum by working with young adults across the world—be it in Atlanta, Melbourne, or Bengaluru.Come and hack the Anthropocene and reflect on your relationship with art, science, climate change, and interact with other young people to share your hopes and fears about the Anthropogenic event we are living in.

EventHacking the Anthropocene: Climate stories between art and science

At the intersection of creative and scientific inquiry lies innovative ways to approach and understand climate change. The Speculative Wanderings in Space and Place (SWISP) Lab has created a climate curriculum by working with young adults across the world—be it in Atlanta, Melbourne, or Bengaluru.Come and hack the Anthropocene and reflect on your relationship with art, science, climate change, and interact with other young people to share your hopes and fears about the Anthropogenic event we are living in.

EventHacking the Anthropocene: Climate stories between art and science in Bengaluru

SWISP Lab and Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) in partnership with the University of Melbourne facilitated two workshops at Infosys Science Foundation to hack living in Anthropocene. We invited young people aged 15-28 years old to join us at the intersection of creative and scientific inquiry and explore the ways that we become scicurious together in a creative atmosphere to explore our climate stories.

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CollectionHAK.io Method 0 - Off-piste

Let’s hack the Anthropocene: This learning with the landmethod challenges ways of knowing, being, doing by‘going off-piste’.

CollectionHAK.io Method 13 - Performance

Let’s hack the Anthropocene: This learning with the land method challenges ways of knowing, being, doing through tiny activisms we think of as performance, or ways to devise, interpret, manipulate and control elements of narrative and structure. This could be done using different performance styles and conventions and/or performance skills and design elements.

CollectionHAK.io Method 12 - Collage It

Let’s hack the Anthropocene: This learning with the land method challenges ways of knowing, being, doing through tiny activisms we think of as collage. This low-fi yet interdisciplinary practice juxtaposes multiple fields of knowledge and positions the practitioner and their collage in the middle of it all, for example: in the middle of art and science or art and technology.

CollectionHAK.io Method 11 - Let’s Get Quizzy

Let’s hack the Anthropocene: This learning with the land method challenges ways of knowing, being, doing through tiny activisms we think of as ‘getting quizzy’. Composing questions and then sequencing them in a way that provokes thoughtful responses about pertinent issues is a great way to guide a group conversation.

CollectionHAK.io Method 10 - Digital Play

Let’s hack the Anthropocene: This learning with the land method challenges ways of knowing, being, doing through ‘digital play’.

CollectionHAK.io Method 9 - Badges

Let’s hack the Anthropocene: This learning with the land method challenges ways of knowing, being, doing through tiny activisms we think of as resistance badges. A resistance badge is a personalised, wearable item that communicates an idea in a way that is quick and easy to understand. People have been wearing badges for centuries. They’re a very old form of identity making and allow you to show who you are. They’re kind of like wearing a mini billboard. Maybe you have one of your favourite sports team or band or pop culture character?

CollectionHAK.io Method 8 - Photography and Film

Let’s hack the Anthropocene: This learning with the land method challenges ways of knowing, being, doing through writing in the form of ‘documentary photography and film/video’ and begins with a VoxPop viewing of young climate activists in Hungary, Czech Republic and Australian in 2022.