Emerging Strategies for Interdependence
November 3rd, 2023
📍Somerset House – Lancaster Rooms, New Wing
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To get involved in shaping the future of this project please head over to the Beyond Cultures of Ownership: Emerging Strategies for Interdependence main page.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRSN8YLge0
Starting from an understanding that ‘ownership’ is one of the underlying (and surprisingly under-examined) power dynamics of our times, the first Beyond Cultures of Ownership gathering kicked off with a day-long exploration of how art and culture can offer vectors for intervening into the structures of ownership in creative and experimental ways. By bringing together a group of highly motivated and visionary artists, activists, technologists, policy-makers and researchers, the goal was to set the foundation for a growing community that enables transformative ideas and practices about value, mutualism, and power-sharing to evolve and come to life.
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Gathering
By running the day in (un)conference style, we are inviting you to collectively create a space for sharing and deep exchanges. Following a set of inspiring provocations in the morning by Indy Johar, Hilary Cottam, Divya Siddarth, Sam Sivapragasam, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, we will spend most of the day in self-organised break-out groups, sharing and connecting on the things that you are most passionate about. There is no need to prepare – we are simply asking for your maximum presence, openness and initiative on the day! We will close the day with reflections and a fireside chat with Adrienne Buller, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and invite everyone to join us for pizza and drinks hosted by our friends at Reference Point next door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfxAYvMHfQ4
All keynotes and flash talks of the gathering have been recorded and are accessible here.
Over 40 sessions have been held and organised by participants, exploring the concept of ownership in art and culture from angles such as mutualism, decentralisation, public-interest AI, governance, civic infrastructures and many more. You can find the index and notes from each session here: Open Space Session Index