Cocooning: Dreaming Adaptation

Cocooning is a 3-hour workshop dreaming (climate) adaptation through embodied methods.

Impetus to Gather

In a time of ecological instability, climate adaptation is often organized through techno-economic solutions that map protection onto some geographies while leaving others exposed. These approaches frequently reproduce colonial cartographies and patterns of environmental racism.

This gathering opens space to question those limits. Together, we will dream adaptation as a relational, embodied, and collective practice — a process of re-membering frayed relations and re-mapping how we live with one another across borders and boundaries, between human and more-than-human worlds.

No prior artistic experience is required. Light snacks and coffee will be provided.

What to Bring

Participants are asked to bring one item they are willing to part with, to be woven into the installation:

• A small meaningful object (e.g., a shell, old necklace, small keepsake), or
• An old natural fibre in neutral tones (fabric scrap, clothing, lace, sheet, etc.) to contribute to the collective cocoon

Objects will become part of the installation.