Seminar: Consensus Building

November 26th, 2020

With myriad different perspectives, tools and methods for describing the planet in transformation, how is it that consensus and verification can be established?

How can standards and contentions for truth be consented upon? With myriad different perspectives, tools and methods for describing the planet in transformation, this seminar, which took place during The Shape of a Practice, asked: how is it that consensus and verification can be established? Who gets to decide? Also, how are these decisions shared and made through different technologies and how does this affect the outcome? Seminar participants explored how to reconcile between origins and processes of forming planetary knowledge and universal ideas, and the continuous unfolding of local practices and specific experiences.