In order to better understand the foundations of today’s political and ecological crises, the artist collective set out to meet researchers, theoreticians and activists, and collected an archive of stories and operational concepts in the form of video interviews. These proposals seek to encourage the prototyping and envisioning of radically different modes of living in relation with our environment. [+]

Focusing on notions such as planetary limits, the rebound effect, ecosystem services and the seventh-generation principle, these videos are published online to help cultivate a community and a set of theoretical and narrative tools that re-examine the utilitarian vision of nature conceived merely as a standing reserve for human industry, delegitimizing the logic of resource optimization, and technological solutionism.

Video Interviews [Full playlist]

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Video Interviews [Selection]

• Bio-diversity

• Collapse Informatics

• Downgrading

• Ecosystem Services

• Energy and Extremity

• Environment vs Ecology

• Extreme Environments

• Failure

• Geo-diversity

• Ideology of Growth

• Indigenous Economics

• Intergenerational Learning

• Internal Growth

• Interspecies Wealth Transfer

• Knowledge Preservation

• Knowledge Resilience

• Knowledge Transfer

• Managing Extremity

• Negatechnology

• Reduction of Complexity

• Regeneration

• Resource Management

• Rethinking Kinship

• Self-obviating Systems

• The 7th Generation Principle

• Survivance

• Terraforming Earth

• The ANT Manifesto

• USA as an Experiment