Braid & Flow is an experimental collaborative seminar organized by the Pedagogies group of the Anthropocene Commons. It was initially devised by a clever group
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Carbondale Seed Swap (year of the ox)
Swap heirloom and open pollinated seeds. Valet service. Masks required. Saturday March 6 from 9- 1 at 214 N Washington St Carbondale
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Chicken Tenders
How might we create a way of life that is really worth living? A short film about chickens triangulating relationships between people. Carbondale Spring is
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Quarantine Chickens and Carbondale Spring
Here is the idea hatched by Carbondale Spring to foster food autonomy in the city of Carbondale and environs and published in Quaranzine, a short
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Naxilandia
Naxilandia is a four channel video installation that features the rural villages of subsistence farmers from the Naxi ethnic minority in China, as they lived along
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Watershed Water School
Watershed Water School was a speculation on learning as something occurring between all species all the time, as an exchange. This learning needs long durations and is done
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Report back from the Zapatista Women’s International Gathering
In early March four of us from Southern Illinois flew to Chiapas to attend the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for
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Making sauerkraut
The Center for Subsistence Research/ Understory community kitchen teamed up with Foodworks, a regional organization that helps support independent small farmers on a sauerkraut making
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Pickles in translation: Autopoiesis and vibration
Salt fermentation is the dirty-delicious- point in the spectrum of fungal-human commensality. The colonies that characterize fermentation begin with logarithmic expansion, leading to a plateau
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Seed Swap 2016
At the seed swap we asked people what they know about subsistence. One man called it a lost art- we like that! Another old timer
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Flyover Library, Social Center and experimental commons
Flyover is an ever evolving space used by people to learn, study and play together; a space where people involved in radical movements and counter-cultures can share information,
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Where you at? A workshop on mapping
This workshop consisted of two approaches to spontaneous map-making; first reflecting an individual’s knowledge and familiar spaces, and then the aggregative knowledge of a collective.
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a Region from below- drifting through Southern Illinois with Compass
The Region from below is a concept we used earlier to expose and map a concealed landscape of energy extraction. Last March we explored this idea
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