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
co-creating just climate futures through elemental consulting
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 these existential times. This creates more possibilities to reach for the divine resources of climate syncretism.
The earth element helps us take the next best step on paths of safety and solidarity. This embraces value alignment and a reorientation to ongoing climate migration.
The changing water element cascades into essential areas of life. Glacier and permafrost melt, sea level rise, extreme flooding, mudslides, drought and many more local precipitation patterns influence the availability of safe drinking water.
The changing air element attracts the atmosphere toward new chemical conditions. Stronger winds produce intense tropical cyclones, while pollution, mold, bacteria and wildfire smoke are carried on currents of shared air.
The changing fire element feeds back into a haze of hot temperatures and deadly humidity. Extreme wildfire seasons lengthen, aquifers dry and vegetation withers while bodily systems experience prolonged stress living with fire.
The changing earth elements tips this planet into realms modern humans do not know. Soils die, diseases spread, biodiversity is lost, while food becomes harder to grow and transport. Sovereignty, movement and freedom shift in relation to earth.