Take-Home Guide for Navigating the Ecosystem

April 14th, 2021

Downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat that offer an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment.

(Participatory Ecology Seed #8)

Imagine the kind of boat you would want to build and how it looks in your mind. These downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat and using it to name a new constellation of stars in the sky ask us to perform an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment. Poet, maker, and participatory ecologist Michael Swierz and interdisciplinary artist Maureen Walrath offer participants a test run in experiential reworlding: a future-facing transformation that may only be activated through the actual fact of doing.