The SymPoiesis Tech provides us the power to open-up windows of public perception around the urgency of the climate crisis pretty much everywhere. When people are sensory-confronted with the animated lives of non-human species - and plants in particular - we have the opportunity to bring into surface the threat our model of civilization imposes to these other life forms, and actively discuss how we - as citizens - can engage with climate solutions policies and projects.
The SymPoiesis Tech provides us the power to open-up windows of public perception around the urgency of the climate crisis pretty much everywhere. When people are sensory-confronted with the animated lives of non-human species - and plants in particular - we have the opportunity to bring into surface the threat our model of civilization imposes to these other life forms, and actively discuss how we - as citizens - can engage with climate solutions policies and projects.
This has been happening in the location where the SymPoiesis Tech is incubated. The community of Rio Sagrado, in Morretes-PR (Brazil) is under the threat of a destructive railroad project that aims to cut through (and pollute) more than 100 water springs and their surrounding vegetation. SymPoiesis Tech has been an ally of a bottom-up community mobilization against such a project, giving "voice" to the local animalia, flora and funga to "speak" for themselves against such devastation. Sympoiesis impact on this manifested via the animatino of the "Festival de Celebração do Rio Sagrado e suas comunidades (Humanas e mais que humanas), which led to the development of the "A manifestação do Sagrado" short (https://vimeo.com/850179762) and the creation of a digital avatar for the "Rio Sagrado", one of the main rivers in this region, giving this local entity a voice to manifest against its impressions in face of threats to their health (http://sympoiesis.xyz/rio-sagrado/). The SymbioDome is an extension of such work, with the hopes of the taking the community's voice (humans and non-human) to other places.
