Connections

How can we acknowledge our interdependence and reliance on each other?

How do you respond to complexity?

Complexity

Everything is connected. We are mortal. What would happen if we understand chaos and complexity as positive terms, to frame our collective endeavours. and shape our shared futures?

“What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.”  -

“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.” - Michel Foucault

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Challenge the Bureaucrats

The Bureaucrats attempt to standardize systems, but control, restrict and compartmentalize our shared experiences – for whom?

This gang manages our shared narratives and responses to the need to build systems of recognition, to make sense of the chaos through with we hurtle. Or so it seems.  The violence behind the value of regulating safety restriction - or ‘best practice’ procedures - is the attempt to standardize risk. And risky behaviour is at the heart of imagination. It is how we learn, fail, assess and recombine.
The political and environmental quakes are shaking the very ground we speak on – no planet, no play. The new Magic Helpers, the authoritarians and their battalions of enabling Bureaucrats are coming at us fast and steady. We are at a rupture point and the gaps are widening. How effective and relevant are our structures and narratives? We want to play with critical literacy games to bring attention to the risk and joy that are draining out of our shared practice.

Questions

How do we question values in a broken system, when we are stuck in it and addicted to its affirmation and renumeration process?

How do we craft a new poetic beyond it in this co-opted space?