It’s weird to be gushing over AI while everyone else seems to hate it…
Continue reading “A note on Claude”Holding structures and scapegoating theory … or something. A wobbly.
While working on the AquaCurious proposal, I had a wobbly. This happens, I pour myself into my work completely and so it gets tangled up with all the emotions and undercurrents and things. So I just poured it into Claude. I don’t know if any of its responses are factually true, but the feelings were BIG and the conversation helped.
Don’t you think this whole application is just naive? Too much of a pipe dream?
Continue reading “Holding structures and scapegoating theory … or something. A wobbly.”AquaCurious
I’m applying to the MSCA fellowship again, sucker for punishment. My current draftsummary as of 10 august is:
| AquaCurious: Cultivating Curiosity-Driven, Gameful Coalition Culture for Sustained Civic-Led Water Partnerships. I ask what capacities let civic and intermediary actors contribute to, rather than draw down, the care that sustains coalition-based water governance, and then work to design gameful approaches to nurture these capacities. AquaCurious bridges three fields: polycentric governance, gameful design, and feminist ethics of care, treating care-laden coordination labour as a design principle rather than a diversity problem to legitimise afterward. The design of a pocket park in Tampere serves as vehicle, anchoring the development of a design framework through iterative, workshop-tested engagement, using deep canvassing and behavioural coding of curiosity and cognitive labour. Gameful approaches that inspire the design include parkrun, already studied elsewhere as a coalition-governance actor and World of Warcraft guilds as holding structure. Outputs include a practitioner toolkit, ritual-template infrastructure recommendations, and a specific policy recommendation aimed at municipalities to pre-institutionalize mechanisms for intermediary and civic-actor participation. This proposal is aimed at converting my demonstrated but institutionally unrecognised leadership into sustainable, fundable independent practice. |
Danish Tiny Houses
Backstory: I bought my first physical Etsy thing! (previously only digital files for papercraft): the Miniature Tiny House made by Turkish company Terrarium Stories. The seller and I started chatting (because I am now also intrigued by Turkey) and I asked if they have considered making the Klein A45, you know, the tiny house I am obsessed with. They said not yet, but they are taking a short trip to Denmark soon = The Bjarke Ingels Group, who designed the A45, is Danish. This conversation reminded me of when I got to see the A45 up close during a tiny house exhibition in Denmark in 2022.
Fever duck dream
I dreamt a lot last night, take that for eating roast duck just before bed!
Update: the song for this (not in the dream, but it captures the zeitgeist): Don’t Take the Money by the Bleachers:
Building an eco-feminist metaverse
This is chewing through the philosophy of the biosphere metaverse project. It’s still messy, and trigger warning, it involves mention of patriarchy and ecofeminism. In more developed framing it won’t mention these to avoid the hangups around the words. Probably won’t mention metaverse either for the same reason.
outline:
- Background: why does patriarchy persist
- Pathological defences against loss applied to our relationship with nature
- Repairing relationship through association, ways of listening
- A globally accessible ecosystem of integrated data
- Case study: UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)Â
- Funding
Care-giving, care-taking, and the feminist metaverse
In the past week, friends have had intertwining conversations that I want to try weave together here. The overarching theme is the power of information to make care, visible. To make the connections and relationships between everything visible. If this in turn has the power to change anything, well, that is another thing and where the post unravels towards the end.
Continue reading “Care-giving, care-taking, and the feminist metaverse”Personal logo
I’ve been meaning to update my logo for a while. I am no longer in Africa, I am no longer focused on mainly water, and the x in the bubble, while one could argue is still relevant, related to TEDx which is also long gone. It’s part of a whole personality re-sync (to quote tim). I like my old logo, I like the elements in it, it still inspires me. It just needs to grow.
Continue reading “Personal logo”Sci-Curious – final
A month ago I submitted this project to the MCSA-PF fellowship call. It is a very competitive call, the chance of success is about 9.6%! I really enjoyed the process of unpacking my idea to the core essence so I consider it a win anyway. (but man I want the fellowship so bad!)
Cultivating scientific curiosity: Digitally-mediated approaches for enhancing engagement and behavioral transformation.
The overall aim of Sci-Curious is to develop a method that cultivates scientific curiosity in
participants, leading to better engagement in and between contributor groups who deal with politically charged scientific questions. This will be achieved through developing a digitally mediated deep canvassing method that incorporates scientific challenges through digital knowledge infrastructures. This method balances a feminist ethic of care with critical accountability. By bridging scientific rigor with transformative societal engagement, this project promises to unlock new pathways for addressing intractable scientific challenges and affecting societal transformation.
Project 6.0: Sci-Curious
Cultivating scientific curiosity: Digitally-mediated approaches for promoting societal transformation through scientific curiosity and capacity.
