sentient cities - how to cook a magic soup?
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Presentation for Culture Lab, Newcastle upon Tyne. Given 30/09/2011www.fleetfootstudios.comTRANSCRIPT
How can animate, inspire and involve the populations ofWhole Cities in the shift to an Ecological Culture?
Answer?
Cook a Magic Soup
Magic Soup Recipe(a work in progress)
• Community Owned Renewable Energy
• Ecological Food Production
• Community Web TV
• A Radical Practice based Learning Community
• Web Based Platform for Participation
• Urban Interventions
• An interactive web series which invites a questioning of the Culture at Large
Stir over a medium heat until the city starts to buzz.
Magic Soup Recipe: A Platform for Participation
COMMUNITY OWNED RENEWABLES
Magic Soup Recipe
COMMUNITY OWNED RENEWABLES
Magic Soup Recipe
COMMUNITY OWNED RENEWABLES
Magic Soup Recipe
COMMUNITY OWNED RENEWABLES
Magic Soup Recipe
Magic Soup Recipe
Magic Soup Recipe
ECOLOGICAL FOOD PRODUCTION
Magic Soup Recipe
ECOLOGICAL FOOD PRODUCTION
Magic Soup Recipe
ECOLOGICAL FOOD PRODUCTION
Magic Soup Recipe
ECOLOGICAL FOOD PRODUCTION
Magic Soup Recipe
Magic Soup Recipe
Magic Soup Recipe
Magic Soup Recipe
Magic Soup Recipe
Magic Soup Recipe
Magic Soup Recipe
Can these three ingredients create a Magic Soup?
Perhaps not…
Perhaps we need to create a sense of mystery and possibility in the City…
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Interventions of all kinds begin to emerge throughout the City…
What if each intervention had a way of linking you to a website…
A website that invited you to participate in conjuring mystery
A website that invited you to participate in bringing forth a satisfying and sustainable future
Enough to make a Magic Soup?
Final Question…
What kind of skills, knowledge and environments do we need to become facilitators of an ecological culture?