Public Ecology: Day 4 - Waste ecologies and radical futures

ABOUT

‘Our current global “story line” isn’t working. With accelerating technological growth and access to collective knowledge revolutionizing everyday life, the zero-sum-game mentality of capitalism is unsustainable. As massive social, technological, and economic changes continue to unfold over the coming decades, our single greatest challenge will be to compose a new civilizational story line that will guide the evolution of our species.’ - Julie Friedman Steele

The films in this pivotal screening session map out points across a (mostly) speculative terrain in response to the question: what might these storylines be? For there is no doubt that our futures contain multiple narratives, taking place simultaneously perhaps over different times and scales.

To contend with the vast proliferation of waste that consumerism and linear growth models have produced, requires a radical act of imagination - and one that we will all need to continue making - as we come to grips with the ongoing systemic impact of our actions thus far, and our need for resources within the limits of the biosphere.

What agencies could these acts of imagination release? and how might we move beyond the catastrophic towards the emergence of environmentally sustainable futures?

Films::

Reclamation - Thirza Cuthand

E-Wasteland - David Fedele

Core Dump (Dakar) - Francois Knoetze

Future-World EXV - Wilfred Ukpong

Pumzi - Wanuri Kahiu

Planet City - Liam Young

DIRECTIONS