Infrastructural Rehearsals Drop-In: Queering Damage

Abstract

This drop-in situation is happening alongside the Observatorio de la luz ("Observatory of power") programme, and focuses on energy communities in transitional times. Inspired by the Queering Damage* system of formulaic/speculative writing, we propose a two step method. First, we will start by 'interviewing the situation' through thinking-attuning system: literature/text fragments, questions, stickers and other graphic elements together with participants in the Observatory. For this, we will develop this system in the form of a set of cards that hold these provocations. The system will be arranged around concerns about energies in place, political economies, specific community set-ups, time spans, calculation systems. Second, we'll gather the elements that emerged in step one and organise a writing/analysis session in which we operate with the elements in the form of formulas.

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