Webinar: How do you keep going in spite of everything?

In this second seminar in the New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies series, we map the values, desires and strategies that keep the community academy La Foresta and the multispecies production space Krater (SLO) going despite continued obstacles.
 
During this webinar we invite a shared reflection on what conditions, practices and relations are making our initiatives precarious and which allow them to thrive. We are convinced that the destabilising and anxiety-inducing working conditions many of us experience call us to engage in truly transformative ways of thinking and acting. Thus we propose a mapping session to trace precarising (as well as empowering) aspects and patterns inherent in our initiatives.
 
This session is inspired by the concept of cruel optimism developed by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant: she describes cruel optimism as a condition in which a person’s everyday practices are hooked to an object of desire (e.g. a project, an initiative, a way of living, a way of working, a way of earning money, a career path) even though the presence of this object of desire compromises their well-being.
 
So as we will map precarising and empowering aspects and patterns, we will also probe them: are some of them a double bind? Which ones would it be better to free ourselves off even though they are dear to us? Which ones inspire systemic subversion strategies that are both fair and feral (aka untamed)?
 

Co-funded by the European Union as part of Erasmus+: Small Scale Partnership in Adult Education – KA210-ADU-EBA01025_2. The project is a collaboration between La Foresta – accademia di comunità and Trajna.
 
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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