Take-Home Guide for Navigating the Ecosystem
(Participatory Ecology Seed #8)
Imagine the kind of boat you would want to build and how it looks in your mind. These downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat and using it to name a new constellation of stars in the sky ask us to perform an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment. Poet, maker, and participatory ecologist Michael Swierz and interdisciplinary artist Maureen Walrath offer participants a test run in experiential reworlding: a future-facing transformation that may only be activated through the actual fact of doing.
Linear thinking is the root of invasion:
it may matter more how we do what we do, than what we do.
Can you feel what it would feel like to be a living part of the ecosystem?
Here you will find an assembly kit for you to follow, which will guide you in an act of experiential knowing.
The lessons it holds for you lie in its doing.
It is a seed—a hypothesis-less experiment—in the science of Participatory Ecology.
