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#Repost @nytopinion ・・・ “Our cosmic backyard is brimming with planets and moons that might be ripe for alien life-forms to flourish,” writes Claire Isabel Webb, a historian of science and the director of the future humans program at the Berggruen Institute. Astrobiologists think Europa, a moon of Jupiter, “is one of the most promising places to find extraterrestrial life, despite its harsh conditions unsuitable to humans.” NASA’s upcoming mission to the icy moon is a refreshing break from humanity’s view of space as something to be conquered and colonized, Claire writes. Click the link in our bio to read more about the mission and the many other worlds out there waiting to be explored. | 🎨 The New York Times #nytopinion

In early 2023, @webbitus and I were chatting and a question arose: How do we construct our future world if we have not yet imagined it? Over the year, we built a partnership between @neuehouse and @berggrueninst to present a range of artistic practices researching forms of material, artificial, ecological, planetary, embodied, ancestral and collective intelligence in the pursuit of crafting future imaginaries. As a programming curator, I wanted to push the series further: How could these programs challenge existing modes of knowledge production and distribution, and the mechanisms that uphold binaries between expert and spectator, insider and outsider? How do they model new forms of engagement, where the structure of the program mirrors the ideas of decentralized or collective intelligence presented within? Might we call these participatory programmatic formats that allow processes of co-creation a form of ‘social carving’? The Future Technê series was born. For the first chapter, @kalladomcdowell presented their book, Air Age Blueprint as an immersive operatic performance with @n_a_l_b_a_n_d_i_a_n. The book, written in tandem with GPT-3 proved itself poetic and insightful: “we come to understand that our psyches possess wisdom: through dreamwork and scrying as well as music and poetry.” And that “artists, singers and musicians – and doctors and healers – may intuit a better future more easily than some scientists. They create a ground for us to discover rather than announce what this is.” Ultimately, the novel and the Future Technê series left me realizing that perhaps in considering the future world, and the potential of becoming ‘more-than-human’, perhaps the real question is: What does it mean to become more deeply human? How do we return to the technologies inherent within us, as creative, spontaneous, playful, joy-filled beings? And how can these technology enable a more healed and just future? Special thanks to our partners throughout the series: @rhizomedotorg, @lucidmotors @vellum_la. Watch ALL the brilliant artists, changemakers and world builders who shared with us their ideas, practices, and Future Technês. Link in bio!

As synthetic biology, artificial minds, and ventures beyond Earth disrupt the category of "the human," what new subjects will emerge, asks Claire Webb? During our Summit 2023, taking place today, Webb – who directs the Berggruen Institute’s (@berggrueninst) Future Humans program – will present her projects that research the histories and futures of life, mind, and outer space. Her book also historically and ethnographically tracks how scientists have investigated extraterrestrial life forms since the Space Age. The World Around Summit 2023 is co-presented with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (@guggenheim) in New York, and takes place on Earth Day, April 22. Tickets are sold out for this year’s event, but signup to our newsletter via the link in our bio to discover all the best content around architecture’s now, near and next. The World Around is a non-profit organization that relies on the support of sponsors and individual donors to operate. We deeply thank everyone who has joined one of our TWA Circles and contributed so far. #TWA2023 #TWAsummit2023 Cover Image: Ernst Haeckel, Public Domain

Biotechnologies, AIs, and ventures to outer space; What Will Life Become?, a Workshop I've organized as a USC-Berggruen Institute Fellow, will explore futures of life, mind, and the extraterrestrial. Day 1 is Thursday, April 21! 🦠🧠🪐 In-person and online: https://www.berggruen.org/wwlb/ Still from Keynote, Planet City and the Return of Global Wilderness, directed by Liam Young, 2021. #futurehumans #wwlb @berggrueninst @nilsgilman @tuipix

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