Your understanding of the world and your idea of reality are shaped by everything you know, all explicit and implicit knowledge, mediated by stories that surround us every day. You and I, we are not only listeners and readers, we produce, shape and form our reality. How do you understand our world? And how do you want to live?
In our imagination exists Gaia. Gaia is earth, she is "maker and destroyer" at the same time. A dynamic system, boundary-maintaining and contingent. Self-sustaining and stable only under certain circumstances. For many years we have lived in harmony with Gaia and understood ourselves as part of her. But over the years a typology of separation has been established. Exploitation and exclusion often prevail over connectedness, togetherness and integration. We destroy our livelihoods and thus make ourselves our own refugees. The root of all these problems is found in the relationship of modern societies to nature. In a society that sees nature as a resource and strives for constant. Infinite growth in a finite world? Does growth mean an increase in gross domestic product or an increase in human connectedness and ecological well-being? Let's go outside for a change. We humans and all parts of the animate and inanimate environment become co-authors, co-producers, . through new forms of interaction and intermixing. Do we think in dynamic assemblies of hybrids, and interrelations and understand ourselves as part of the same system, the question of and anthropocentric exceptionalism arises. But how can we think of non-human entities as integrated elements of our production of thought and knowledge? Defamiliarize our habits and think differently about the 'we'? The art of togetherness as a global survival strategy asks us to turn against established dichometries. We make distinctions and understand them as opposites, defining ourselves from a demarcation rather than commonality and focus. We want to produce spaces that overcome these problematic dualisms and tell stories of an expanded and more open society. Nature is culture. A network of natureculture constructed by human and non-human agents. Nature is transformed from something external to an umbrella term for all that is culturally produced. What role can we take in this new world and what access can we create? How does an idea, a thought construct, a conception manifest itself as physical, materialized space? We understand space as relational, as a processual set of relations, as a carrier of meaning, as something that puts things in relation to each other, as a medium. Through space we can rethink relationality, perspective and reality. We assume that our relationship to the world is determined by two factors - the passive experience of the world and its active appropriation. Spaces thus generate situated histories; they nurture, invent, and discover versions of living with one another and form communities. Spatial practices create a basis for connective practices. These lead us down new paths and create encounters we did not ask for. Walking becomes a pedagogical practice. Means empowering yourself to give answers. It helps us to better understand what it means to be responsibly to be. How are you today? Come along on a journey.