Aberdeen

 Aberdeen was really good - it made me realise how embodied experiential ways of doing things actually work best. Johan said a very wise thing which I quote from: 

These days encapsulated a vision of the project as a whole that begins to articulate the meaning of “voices of the future”. I very much liked your remark, Kate, at Bennachie that this IS the project and the way of working. I also very much liked seeing the emergence of the project’s own unique theorisation of what we are doing, along the lines of relationality, embodied and distributed cognition, language and communication and concrete utopia. Starting from “archaeology, ontology and architecture” I feel we are developing our own framing that may even contribute to a further development of that frame, as we discover ways to think beyond the Greek heritage that still marks (and mars) those terms: archaeology: the account (logos) of the archè (origin), ontology: the account of being (not becoming) and architecture: the laying down of the foundations upon which to build. Our time together has helped me to see that the project might provide the means to further enhance utopia as method by envisioning these three concentrations in a more relational way than they perhaps appear in Levitas. To me this is extremely exciting. Here is my iconic image of the retreat:

I loved the road trip and the intensity of going up the hill. 

I also liked how we spiralled in and out of other projects, other worlds and other groups to create something together.