17–18 November
Symposium
Architectures of Planetary Well-Being 2.0 Imagining the relational change needed to move beyond extractive paradigms.
Photo: Mishael Fapohunda
rearc institute invites you to join the second iteration of the biannual symposium program dedicated to exploring architectures of planetary well-being, which we understand as ongoing practices of custodianship and care towards our socio-ecological environments. Architectures of planetary well-being offer an approach to understanding the frameworks that connect these systems, in turn allowing us to imagine the relational change needed to move beyond extractive paradigms.
The in-person gathering will be a program across two evenings, in collaboration with practitioners from a range of disciplinary perspectives—including architects, designers, environmental organizers, and artists—to consider themes that have emerged through and since our first symposium in February, particularly in regard to material realities and processes and our collective understandings of well-being and grief.
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Program/Schedule
November 17
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18:00 Doors Open
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Four practices from the UK, Senegal, and India to speak about the material realities and processes that inform local planetary practices, as well as our connectedness around them. London-based and interdisciplinary Resolve Collective and post-carbon design and research practice Material Cultures; Worofila, a Dakar architecture studio considering the future of local, climate-considerate design; and Anupama Kundoo, a Berlin-based architect working through time as a modality.
Anupama Kundoo 
Resolve Collective 
Material Cultures 
Worofila -
19:30 Food & Drinks Served
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Conversation with architectural writer, historian, editor, and educator Shumi Bose and Anupama Kundoo reflecting on temporality, research-based processes, and the provocations offered earlier.
Anupama Kundoo 
Shumi Bose -
Sonic meditation and groove from Touching Bass, a South London-based musical movement/curatorial platform led by Errol and Alex Rita.
Touching Bass
November 18
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18:00 Doors Open
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Breathwork experience led by Lina Salih Didi, a trauma-informed practitioner working in various modes of somatic embodiment, accompanied by a performance from Austrian-Ethiopian harpist Miriam Adefris.
Lina Salih Didi 
Miriam Adefris -
"Rehearsing Freedoms,” a keynote by Farzana Khan of Healing Justice London, introduced her practice of visionary organizing, and emphasized the importance of carving out the time and space to actively practice for the futures we wish to create in the present.
Farzana Khan -
Conversation between climate justice organizer and writer Tori Tsui and artist, curator, and publisher Georgina Johnson.
They addressed some active practices for collectively expressing and processing emotions around planetary connectedness and our climate futures. We ask how we process grief can help us move away from fear to practices of hope and possibility.
Tori Tsui 
Georgina Johnson -
Plant-based meal over a set from broadcaster, writer, and DJ Zakia Sewell.
Zakia Sewell