WORLDING GROUP
"To world, we relate. To world, we enact our relations. To world means living up to the practices and responsibilities that operate with or without us, in the dynamic systems of law, art, culture, and language that are always ongoing." - Joseph Pierce
"A “world” is always a world-in-the-making – it is an ongoing activity: worldmaking. And for this reason, “worlding” is perhaps a better way of presenting the concept of a “world” — as it emphasizes that a world is never static or fixed but always actively in-the-making, always a process. While "worlding" does sound odd, it is preferable to "world" precisely because it resists the impression that a world is a noun, a container, a given." - Emergent Futures Lab
"Worlding is a particular blending of the material and the semiotic that removes the boundaries between subject and environment, or perhaps between persona and topos. Worlding affords the opportunity for the cessation of habitual temporalities and modes of being." - Helen Palmer and Vicky Hunter
local people
co-creating climate futures
by consulting elemental roots
Principle Strategist: Jessica Wrenn
Land: Wabanakik
Scale: Bioregion Adaptation
historic patterns
complex potential
spiritual presence
embodied pathways
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The water element helps us map patterns of power throughout society. This generates awareness around the layers of our relations to inform climate reparations.
The air element helps us explore the potential of complex systems science. This supports the sites of our resistance through novel and rebellious climate organizing.
The fire element helps us find presence within uniquely existential times. This creates more possibilities to open up to the divine resources of climate syncretism.
The earth element helps us embody the next best step on paths of multi-layered solidarity. This encourages a reorientation to the dynamics of climate migration.
The changing water element cascades into many areas of life. Glacier and permafrost melt, sea level rise, oceanic circulation shift, flooding, drought and many more local precipitation patterns influence the reliability of water.
The changing air element shifts the atmosphere toward new basins of attraction. Stronger winds produce intense tropical cyclones, while pollution, bacteria, illness and wildfire smoke diffuse along currents of shared air.
The changing fire element feeds back into an expanding haze of temperature and humidity. Wildfire seasons lengthen, heat domes stagnate, aquifers dry up while vegetable and mammal bodies stress in a warmer world.
The changing earth element tips this planet into realms unknow. Soils die, infections spread, biodiversity is lost, food becomes harder to grow and local sovereignty slips through the cracks of our common earth.