Anne Marie Willis (2006) argues that “We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.”[1] Attitudes to feeding, motherhood, parenting and intimate caring practices are embedded within the world around us. They manifest in objects, tools, devices, clothes, architecture, rituals, systems, education, paradigms and prejudices.
During Feeding Futures, I asked...
What could our future feeding worlds look like?
What would the messages be?
What are the new codes and practices of caring and feeding that we need to see in our futures?
What happens when we do this together and we put this out into the public realm?
What do we see when we take up space with these thoughts and actions?
What if we begin to give form to alternative futures?
Inspired by the work of Annetta Pedretti who used everyday improvisations towards possibilities, participants responded to these questions and made flags. On the opposite page are images of a few of the many flags created at the event.
‘Feeding’ can mean to supply with material or power. Therefore, I am curious about how we can collectively feed the future with alternative ideas of what feeding futures we individually or collectively want or need.
Let us make more flags and share them everywhere.
[1] Marie Willis (2006) ‘Ontological Designing’, Design Philosophy Papers, 4:2, 69-92
Photos by Fiona Finchett