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Anne Bonny seemed a good enough name for the starship, actually for the Ark. The Ark infact was going to carry out an exploratory function out in the universe but also sort of ambassadorial function too. Human, Animal, vegetable, mineral species from the planet earth would be collected and preserved in the ark. Surely for experimentation but also for purely historical reasons. This was who and what we were when we left in 2050 AD…. | Anne Bonny seemed a good enough name for the starship, actually for the Ark. The Ark infact was going to carry out an exploratory function out in the universe but also sort of ambassadorial function too. Human, Animal, vegetable, mineral species from the planet earth would be collected and preserved in the ark. Surely for experimentation but also for purely historical reasons. This was who and what we were when we left in 2050 AD…. | ||
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Some say there is a strong distinction between the emergent third culture rafts of shared responsibility and generalisation / multispecialisation, | Some say there is a strong distinction between the emergent third culture rafts of shared responsibility and generalisation / multispecialisation, | ||
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Where do we see ourselves in this scenario? Either on a raft or in the ark. | Where do we see ourselves in this scenario? Either on a raft or in the ark. | ||
Tim: as the oldest, a role as meditator and mediator. I take regular periods as a hermit, whether in seabubbles below the surface, on top of masts or towed behind the raft, or on the gardens, on the exterior or towed behind on the ark. But how did I get here? Possible tangential reference: | Tim: as the oldest, a role as meditator and mediator. I take regular periods as a hermit, whether in seabubbles below the surface, on top of masts or towed behind the raft, or on the gardens, on the exterior or towed behind on the ark. But how did I get here? Possible tangential reference: | ||
- | “This is not my beatiful house,..” | + | “This is not my beatiful house, |
- | And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here? | + | And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here? \\ |
- | Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down | + | Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down \\ |
- | Letting the days go by/water flowing underground | + | Letting the days go by/water flowing underground |
- | Into the blue again/after the money' | + | Into the blue again/after the money' |
- | Once in a lifetime/ | + | Once in a lifetime/ |
A series of events from the simple start in the technologies and systems we have for the work we do (here and now, Times Up and all that), then visiting friends and family between Europe and Australia gets slower until I end up on one of these slow boats. As issues arise, I change boats to get to different places, but never in time, so I realise that most “urgent issues” are not really that urgent and we wind up on the first big raft, making stuff up as we go along, maintaining a mixture of engineering and entertainment, | A series of events from the simple start in the technologies and systems we have for the work we do (here and now, Times Up and all that), then visiting friends and family between Europe and Australia gets slower until I end up on one of these slow boats. As issues arise, I change boats to get to different places, but never in time, so I realise that most “urgent issues” are not really that urgent and we wind up on the first big raft, making stuff up as we go along, maintaining a mixture of engineering and entertainment, | ||
- | Tina: I learn to cook - even learnt to enjoy doing it, much to my surprise, as well as I occasionally join the film-crew on the ark, either documenting what is happening on the “madeira-seized” ark or re-interpreting and visualizing the fake news from the journalist team. But, mainly I’ll be occupied by strolling through the ark, observing and enjoying what I see and get carried away with my thoughts. | ||
- | Valentina: i was a psychologist | + | Tina: The context in my earlier days (being with Time's Up) gave me the opportunity to develop a broad spectrum of interests. One of them, amongst others, has been into migration and nomadism of all sorts, triggering smaller and bigger social changes and impacts. I have been aware and interested in the formation of "the raft", slowly growing and turning into floating villages, populated with all kinds of people with different educational and cultural backgrounds, |
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+ | The moment the first Ark was about to leave I decided to join. Credible rumors said, that the " | ||
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+ | Shortly after I arrived at the Ark, I developed an - to my own surprise - interest in food-supply which was/is a big issue at the Ark, due to restricted space and resources. There was a growing group of mixed experts and non-experts, | ||
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+ | Due to the recent glitch we lost a huge amount of both, our knowledge and stock of seeds. Research being documented to manipulate without destroying the natural structure of seeds disappeared. | ||
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+ | Apart from finding people who help regaining this knowledge I'm also here at this cocktail party to find people helping our chefs to collect ideas for dishes mainly consisting of our momentary staples, being loads of algae and mushrooms, tiny pumpkins and rice-extract which through heat gains its known texture and form. We still have a varied stock of herbal and spice essences left. | ||
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+ | Another passion, I carry out on the ark seems noteworthy, too. It is my passion for simple strolling and observing, searching for " | ||
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+ | Mara: Chief editor of the Ark's newspaper (oscillating between fiction and reality) | ||
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+ | Alkan: A schizophrenic gonzo journalist with manic-depressive tendencies, Alkan came to the Ark hoping to regenerate his career through a dramatic scoop on the third culture, which he attempts to investigate through interviews with the Ark's crew and prospective recruits. Due to insider contacts, and with the slimmest demonstration of actual ability, he somehow managed to scrape his way into working for the Ark's newspaper. However, an intrinsic lack of social graces and complete inability to communicate with other humans, coupled with a near-total obliviousness to his surroundings, | ||
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+ | Istvan: role-shifting stowaway with links to the hobo signing network | ||
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+ | Julian: I made the mistake of following my flaky girlfriend onto the Ark, blinded by love. (We broke up soon afterward and she returned to land.) While at first I was skeptical, I made it through my initial period of self-imposed isolation and found my place on the Ark writing press releases and setting up a spontaneous translation system. When I met Ann Bonny I realized that I had met her before - as an undergraduate in the 2030s, when she was a charismatic and iconoclastic visiting professor. We renewed our friendship on the Ark and have been close ever since. During our many recruitment efforts, I help by seeking out those people who seem least suitable and least willing to join - because I see myself in them, and I believe they offer the most potential in the long run. | ||
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+ | Nik: Oscillating fluid dynamics wrangler: from physics and plumbing, to streams of consciousness and inebriety. Sometimes functioning as a barman. | ||
+ | Maja: I'm the rafters ambassador on the Ark and first-contact person for non-human sentiences, as well as travellers from other times. Currently xCoAx liaison. In 2014 I was facilitating a futures workshop at xCoAx as a member of FoAM, that back then was a network with studios in different countries. When it was time to set-off and live on water, we floated towards each other and actually spent more time together than while living on land (with thanks to our dear anonymous ship magnate @traintoextinctification for providing the boats). We continued our work with prototyping possible futures. One of the early prototypes was in fact a generational starship we called the Ark, another one The Flotilla, that very much resembled our contemporary raftizens. The story started as a scenario in xCoAX 2014, and we developed it into a 10 year pre-enactment in 202Os - way before cold fusion was possible. I loved the idea of a living lab for Third Culture, and I worked with the team on its detailed designs, especially when it came to designing spaces and situations where people from all walks of life would gather, live and work. The pre-enactment was a success, and gave rise to many floating villages. When cold fusion became possible, the Ark was built for space travel and about to embark on its first journey, I became skeptical. I experienced the damage that humans can do to our living environment and each other, so I didn't believe we should leave the planet until our culture evolves beyond conflict and unhealthy competition (we're on our way, but far from there yet) and we develop our vegetal mind to be at least as prominent as our bestial. | ||
+ | It was Ann Bonny who convinced me that I should join the crew as an ambassador of Earth-bound Third Culture, a living example of intertwingularity and an early warning sign in unproductive (or dangerous) conflict situations. Since then I have been training in connecting everything (and everyone) with everything (and everyone) else, often working with [[:/ | ||
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+ | One of three Third Culture storyworlds developed at the [[xcoax_workshop]] | ||
+ | * [[Humanalia]] | ||
+ | * [[Springfield]] | ||
+ | * [[AnnBonny' |