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SUMMARY:Superonda Talks - Starhawk & Isabelle Stengers
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DESCRIPTION:Starhawk & Isabelle Stengers\nArchitecture & Environnement\nSu
 peronda Talks\, Spring 2021\n\nTo Re-enchant the World\n\nStarhawk (EN)\nH
 ow can we envision the world that we want? How did the world become disenc
 hanted—reduced to dead material devoid of inherent value? To address the
  great ecological and social meltdowns of our time\, we need a worldview t
 hat sees all of life as interconnected and interdependent\, sharing a fiel
 d of consciousness. Starhawk proposes frameworks\, ethics and principles t
 hat can guide us in designing a world infused with spirit and founded on j
 ustice\, where we approach nature with reverence\, humility\, and wonder.\
 n\n&\n\nI will life to go on \n\nIsabelle Stengers (FR)\nIsabelle Stenger
 s\, who translated and introduced Starhawk’s “Quel monde voulons-nous 
 ?”\, will emphasise how struck she was by the importance of the word “
 envision” that she uses. There is nothing contemplative\, but a desire\,
  for more than forty years\, to let oneself be guided by the life that mus
 t go on\, and to bring this life to places where conflicts and mistrust th
 reaten or make us forget interdependencies and interconnections.\n \nBiog
 raphies\n\nStarhawk is a writer\, activist\, permaculture designer and te
 acher\, and a leading voice for ecofeminism and earth-based spirituality. 
 She is the author of thirteen books on earth based spirituality and activi
 sm\, including The Spiral Dance\, The Earth Path\, and The Empowerment 
 Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups\, on group dynamics and social p
 ermaculture\, and her novels\, The Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refug
 e.  \nTogether with director Donna Read Cooper\, Starhawk has worked on 
 five major documentaries\, including the Goddess Trilogy for the National 
 Film Board of Canada and Permaculture: The Growing Edge.  \nStarhawk di
 rects Earth Activist Training\, http://earthactivisttraining.org\, which 
 teaches the tools of regenerative design with a grounding in spirit\, a fo
 cus on social permaculture\, organizing and activism. Her website is http
 ://starhawk.org\, and she is on Twitter @Starhawk17 and Facebook https://
 www.facebook.com/StarhawkAuthor/.\n\nIsabelle Stengers\, professor emeritu
 s of the University of Brussels. Her work first focused on the problem of 
 physics confronted with the problem of irreversibility\, (with I. Prigogin
 e La nouvelle alliance\, 1979\, and Entre le temps et l’éternité\, 1
 988)\, then on the question of modern sciences (L’invention des sciences
  modernes\, 1993\, and Histoire de la chimie\, 1993\, written with B.Bens
 aude-Vincent. She set out to escape the role of the dominating model of th
 e experimental sciences by focusing on the diversity of the sciences\, the
 ir conflicting relationships and their social\, economic and political rol
 e. This reflection on the sciences has been extended\, with the notion of 
 practice and the ecology of practices\, to all collective activities that 
 produce knowledge (Cosmopolitiques\, 1997\, La Vierge et le neutrino\, 20
 06). She also explores the possibilities of a speculative pragmatics\, bot
 h in the political domain (La sorcellerie capitaliste\, with Philippe Pign
 arre\, 2005\; Au temps des catastrophes\, 2009) and in the philosophical 
 domain (Penser avec Whitehead\, 2002). Within this same framework\, she pu
 blished Les faiseuses d’histoires with Vinciane Despret in 2011 and U
 ne autre science est possible! in 2013 and Réactiver le sens commun in
  2020.\nIn 2003 she introduced Starhawk to the French-speaking public in h
 er afterword to Science\, magie et politique (since republished under th
 e title Rêver l’obscur) and in 2019 she translated her Quel monde vou
 lons-nous? preceded by an essay ‘Magie et résurgence‘. \n\nSuperonda
  Talks \n\nArchizoom supports this semester the reflections developed in 
 the History and Theory of the Environment course given in Bachelor 1 at 
 the EPFL by Sébastien Marot. A course that invites us to understand to wh
 at extent environmental concerns today lead us to rethink the meaning and 
 principles of architecture and other project based disciplines. This serie
 s of lectures aims to explore how architects and urban planners can unders
 tand environmental concerns today\, and how they can stimulate our imagina
 tion and our responsibilities.\n\nProgramme produced in collaboration with
  Sebastien Marot and Raphael Bach.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/86392394156
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