Wicked Possibilities Webinar.
Thinking about thinking and Dialogue.
These fellow humans are just great. I mean I don't know them very well, they might like mango or other things I profoundly dislike like mango - some of the participants I have only met them through their thoughts disembodied, writing and online this once only- Yet... The presentations prior to the seminar I listened to carefully, making notes which I will add (mañana).
Think think- think again into infinitumm.....
Act reAct reAct reAct reAct into infinitum....
Wicked problems- my son thought we meant they are wicked as they use the word wicked, meaning cool, great problems, rad ‘bro’.
No, no we don’t mean it like that, we mean wicked as bad and evil and shape shifting and impossible - morphing, but yes son, hence the idea of wicked possibilities which for his generation’s slang might also mean the opposite that it does to ours- evil possibilities?
Second order cybernetics and Space travel and emotion and politics and structures- both internals and externals- and passive engament, systemic thinking, how to change the entrenched issues we live with, the shifting goals, all impossibly interesting design dialogues across the planet with Dulmini Perera, Mathilda Tham, Paul Pangaro, Thomas Fischer, Sally Sutherland, Ben Sweeting and Tom Ainsworth. Plus Creative collaborators Ben Peppiatt, Sarah Macbeth, Jack Dodd, and moi. Delighted to participate, excited and already daunting but I dont need to say anything... I can be a silent participant- as if I ever could.
I write notes in ‘morphism’ - even for my art lesson planning, which according to my spellchecking machinery says is not a word. Well, it is now. It is one more solism but not solipsism. It is a word in Spanish and it is a very good word too, it means... according to the Wikipedia entry, which I read with some surprise since it does appear to be a word in English after all:
‘In mathematics, particularly in category theory, a morphism is a structure-preserving map from one mathematical structure to another one of the same type. The notion of morphism recurs in much of contemporary mathematics.’
A map of my thinking and how the line morphs into another shape?
The Wicked Possibilities was brilliant, and far exceeded my expectations as I had no previous experience of what a Webinar would or might be like, not as an attendee, never mind as a collaborator. Nervous... as ever. My body turns reverts to my eight years old self and I need to pee and cant speak just before I need to, evidently.
I am not telling this story in the right order.
It starts with Ariadne’s weaving and my ongoing love affair with all things cosmic, space, below over us, sideways, within. And movement. The ongoing research aspect of the Masters and the space in the vault above us is paradoxically the gravitational element that has kept me grounded through this enforced confinement which I have finally flown from.
Lou Reed’s Satellite of Love is here with me. I would have loved being an astronaut, but being a feral Andean goat, the highest I got was tree climbing. I remain more of a space cadet than an aspiring astronaut.
(image above: The Space for a Conversation)