Regenerative futures
Regenerative futuresRHIZOMATIC THINKING AND ARCHITECTURE
1-6/10/2024
theme
Rhizomes are horizontally growing structures. For example fungae mycelium has a rhizomatic growing priciple. Rhizomatic thinking is a term widely known through the writings by the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. As they presented the core of this tool is to examine and learn from non-hierarchical systems of rhizomatic networks by recognizing connectivity, diversity and symbiosis. The ideas of rhizome- like connectivity however are something that has always existed in various worldviews and thinking systems. However the current capitalistic system based on competition, exploitation and extractivism does not function according to these principles. We want to recognize different ways of understanding what rhizomatic structures could mean also outside the Eurocentric academia. We aim to listen and learn.
In our program we want to examine how abstract ideas and ideologies are transformed into physical realities. In addition to studying rhizomatic thinking as a theory we aim to follow it’s principles in the way we build the program in the events. The program will touch on topics such as growth dependent cities, biodiversity loss, care and our relationship to the more-than-human world.
In October 2024 we focus on how rhizomatic thinking relates to change and loss.