WORLDING
"To world, we relate. To world, we enact our relations. To world means living up to the practices and responsibilities that operate with or without us, in the dynamic systems of law, art, culture, and language that are always ongoing." - Joseph Pierce
"A “world” is always a world-in-the-making – it is an ongoing activity: worldmaking. And for this reason, “worlding” is perhaps a better way of presenting the concept of a “world” — as it emphasizes that a world is never static or fixed but always actively in-the-making, always a process. While "worlding" does sound odd, it is preferable to "world" precisely because it resists the impression that a world is a noun, a container, a given." - Emergent Futures Lab
Worlding is a particular blending of the material and the semiotic that removes the boundaries between subject and environment, or perhaps between persona and topos. Worlding affords the opportunity for the cessation of habitual temporalities and modes of being. - Helen Palmer and Vicky Hunter
co-creating just climate futures through local elemental consulting
Strategist: Jessica Wrenn
Land: Wabanakik
Scale: Bioregion Adaptation
historic patterns
complex potential
spiritual presence
embodied pathways
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The water element helps to map patterns of power throughout society. This generates awareness around the layers of our relations to inform
climate reparations.
The air element helps to explore the potential of complex systems science. This supports the sites of our resistance through novel and rebellious climate organizing.
The fire element helps to find presence within these existential times. This creates more possibilities to reach for the divine wisdom of climate syncretism.
The earth element helps to take the next best step on paths of safety and solidarity. This embraces value alignment and a reorientation to ongoing climate migration.
Changing water cascades into essential areas of life. Glacier and permafrost melt influence sea level rise, heavy rainfall, extreme flooding and drought. Local precipitation patterns influence the availability of safe drinking water.
Changing air attracts the atmosphere toward new chemical conditions influencing pollution, smog, and wildfire smoke. Dust, mold and pollen are also carried on the wind. These make it hard to catch the breath.
Changing fire feeds back into a fury of hot temperatures and deadly humidity. Extreme wildfire seasons lengthen, as vegetation dries out. Nervous systems reach new levels of prolonged stress and rest is hard to come by.
Changing earth tips this planet into realms modern humans have never known. Here, soil dies out, diseases spread while food becomes harder to grow and transport. Sovereignty, movement and freedom are not guaranteed.