Walk About It
Field Trip
This event series by Deep Time Chicago aims for a scientific and artistic approach to nature which is based on lived experiece. The guided excursions lead the participants through different sites of the anthropocenic landscape.
The Anthropocene calls for something unheard of: first person science. It means deriving the most abstract theorems from lived experience. Drawing on phenomenology, the biologist Francisco Varela made that his ideal.
Today, who could deny that the most determinant truths of Nature are created in the first person plural by humans? Not just the urban sourround, but the entire global ecology has become an artefact of society.
The call for an ethics and aesthetics of scientific practice isn’t just a matter for specialists. To explore the urban realm with both senses and sensors is to grapple with the worls-creating powers of contemporary civilization.
For reports of the past events and further information about the ongoing series Walk About It please klick here.
Walk through Red Gate Woods Forest Preserve guided by Jeremy Bolen and Brian Holmes.
