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Local Alternatives
re-imagining urban histories and futures with children and young people
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sensing strata
a brief history of the
Earth told in layers
Anthropocene epoch
"anthropos" is Greek for "human"
the human population has
trippled in one generation
deep time
BOOM!
human strata on top
of Earth strata?
children and young people
as co-researchers
can we think
a hundred million years?
doing science by making art?
art in public, art in the street
architectural strata
co-producing art as research
unearthing oil from the strata
concrete processes
of lived abstraction
because children have a different perception of climate change
buildings covered up
by future strata
digital strata
strata to make strata
have humans taken over the world?
art and life become indistinct
(epi)genetic strata
poetry as strata
strata as data
water/colour/salt/ink/spray/fingers
paper/brush/gravity/movement
compos(t)ing
strata
strata mix, separate and ferment like a yogurt culture
last week we counted 70 rings
on a split tree in Chorlton
our strata are
becoming unstratified
our compositions are
becoming uncomposed
collaborators
David Rousell (Biosocial Lab, MMU)
Suzanne Smith (Z-arts)
Z-artists (age 11-14)
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