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Links about art projects:

https://nextnature.net/search?q=next-generation
https://nextnature.net/magazine/story/2019/biophilic-design-daniel-elkayam
https://www.jessicadeboer.com/?setups/77Verzilt
https://www.stuyspec.com/science/what-if-humans-go-extinct
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534715003006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikmEL-XQQI&ab_channel=BBCIdeas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUNhqnpiOE&ab_channel=FreeDocumentary-Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJQYSPFo7hk&ab_channel=JonathanPascual
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/studios-moniker-painted-earth-digital-240518

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Chrysanthemum means death/goodbye

What if humans did not exist?
What if our species went extinct by tomorrow 9:14 am?

With our project, we will look at all the influences humans have on the earth and what would be different if we were not there anymore. We want to map out certain aspects of things that are going on right, and take research about predictions of what would happen next if humans are not there. For our research we are looking into the past to the present, to see what has been going on already for different species and how they went extinct and what history can tell us. We are looking into dangered species this present day and all the influences humans have on nature as it is today and small sidesteps into what needs to be done for nature and the ecosystem to regenerate itself to its best form.

But our main question is: What happens when the human species were not there anymore?

This we will map out with different statistics and different events that we think could happen when humans went extinct. This we will present in two specific different ways. On the one hand, we will tell you a story, someone had a dream about this (allowing us to speculate), and in this story, the information we gathered will be presented and in the story, it will have a more positive twist as to what can thrive without us. On the other hand, all this talk about the dreams, this story, will be taken place through a dinner party where two people came together to play chess while having something to eat. These visuals will present all the verbal language of the story and present this in a more negative way by ruining this still life of the chess game, meaning the table will get dirty (with wine spilling, an eaten apple, slices of oranges, candle wax, dead bee) and this creates a contrast with what happens in the dream.

The dream is so beautiful, yet the people are making it into a mess.

Research making the script:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/cars-planes-trains-aviation-co2-emissions-transport
https://www.efe.com/efe/english/technology/noise-pollution-a-threat-to-city-birds/50000267-3596591
https://www.sonova.com/en/loud-louder-loudest-how-birds-are-adapting-city-life
https://qz.com/726926/like-people-birds-that-live-in-the-city-are-louder-meaner-and-more-stressed-out-than-their-country-cousins/
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-voices-of-birds-and-the-language-of-belonging/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikmEL-XQQI&ab_channel=BBCIdeas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUNhqnpiOE&ab_channel=FreeDocumentary-Nature
https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/pollution
https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/
https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/climate-change/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bumblebees-going-extinct-climate-change-pesticides
https://theconversation.com/keeping-honeybees-doesnt-save-bees-or-the-environment-102931
https://www.savetherhino.org/thorny-issues/de-horning/
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/dehorning-standard-practice-dairy-farms/story?id=9658414
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/deforestation
https://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/big-bloom
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/noise-pollution/
https://news.mongabay.com/2011/04/what-does-nature-give-us-a-special-earth-day-article/

All interesting quotes from Decolonisation as Care, Uzma Rizvi.

Once we allow our work to breathe, to reflect, to sense difference, it transforms structures around it or structures created through it. (p.85)
It takes into account systems of oppression within the world that hold marginalized people in place (often at an inferior position) in multiple ways. (p. 86)
All practitioners must first place themselves outside of the system that maintains their work in place. In order to re-conceptualize any practice, the first moments of recognition have to do with recognizing oneself as radically other, not of this system, not of the normalized way of being. That conceptual shift allows one to consider praxis as particular to one’s embodied standpoint—there is no way for me/you/us to step outside of my/your/our body/bodies to create anything. (p.87)
As a person of South Asian heritage, I was often confounded while dealing with crayons that did not have any color to represent my skin tone. I was told by teachers to color in bodies as ‘peach’ because that was the norm in the 1970s, in the United States. But my body was not peach. (p. 87)
The tools (i.e. crayons) and the representation could not align unless I let go of wanting to see myself represented in that image. ... I was not the ‘norm’ in the world of crayons. ... It is important for us to think through how we might make sense of the many different ways we might imagine past bodies, or othered bodies, or any body that is not a normative privileged body. ... In effect, such an approach allows for an epistemic critique in the service of decolonization. (p. 88)
Often we feel trapped in one system, and we feel the system is so much larger than we are; but we are the ones who are keeping that system going. (p. 90)
Every time I touch or excavate the soil, it gives me its own answers; it talks to me through its own composition. Those relationships help me think through how I interpret the past. (90)
To think of the identity of non-humans in the same capacity, on the same ontological plane, provides the possibility of an intersectional subjectivity to the thing itself. (91)
... we continue to understand the world and encounter nature, feel the breeze, look at green leaves, look at the sky, is through that ‘I.’ (91)
Because I could not be represented by the peach crayon, I had to think through how my knowing the world was different from everyone else’s. (91)
By granting myself the ‘I’ everything was granted an ‘I’ and there was an intersectional subjectivity that provided a network of kin and care that went beyond a humancentric approach to the world. (91)
.. we reach across that wide expanse of lived experiences of other individuals and identities in order to create a narrative of what may have been an unfolding of some form of identity. (92)
The moment you touch a landscape, the moment you touch the soil, the moment you think about mudbrick, or work with mudbrick, you know it, and know it intimately. There is a different kind of reflexivity and criticality that enters into our understanding of ourselves. (92)
Once we recognize that we are placed in various systems in ways to keep us moving in place, we stop and then slowly realign our ways of experience, our praxis experiences radical change, one in which we might recognize decolonization as care.

Elske