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Season for Change: The Cultivation of Self and Surrounding

Part 2 Project 2024
Rhiannon Flack
University of Plymouth | UK
Society currently finds itself in a crisis-era; faced with constant news of war, injustice, climate emergency and economic stress. Our generational saecula has been taught to hold a perspective of, and a desire for, change. With this comes a responsibility to navigate the given futures that lie ahead of us. We hold potential for great and revolutionary change, but this necessitates actualisation in how society partners itself with the earth; cultivating the self and surrounding.

When understanding and conceptualising theories of change, it is proposed that the substance of self and surrounding is constituted from a constellation of events which are informed and structured in terms of entanglement, reciprocity and contradiction. Events span scales, temporalities and moods; each presenting a unique experience, scenario and thickness.

Season for Change explores and reifies this substance through a device-led temporal mapping which enables visualisation and interpretation of past and present events. Extrapolating this data across time allows us to predict the potential of future events, rendering ourselves resilient through actualised actions, whilst being the catalysis of systematical shifts in perceptions of change and agency.


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