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Call for applications: UCIRA Desert Residency Program

UCIRA Desert Residency Program - Call for applications:
Applications are currently being accepted for the UC Institute for
Research in the Arts/UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center Joint Residency
to be held February 13 - 16, 2009 at the Boyd Deep Canyon Research
Center in Palm Desert.

About the UCIRA/UCR Palm Desert Residency Program:
The program will take place at the UC Riverside Palm Desert Research
Center and the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center in Palm Desert.
and will be facilitated by members of the Luminous Green Collective
http://www.luminousgreen.org/. The first portion of the residency
will focus on issues relevant to the Sustainable Desert Gardens
Initiative (a joint UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center/CSU San Bernardino
project). Locative mapping and sensing of the area will be processed
in an Open Space Technology workshop designed to encourage interaction
and commitment between participants. A core group of Luminous Green
veterans will work with participants in the definition of potential
futures for the project. The second day will be devoted to reflection
and planning of a proposal for the Desert Sustainable Gardens
Initiative. Participants in the workshop will move to the Boyd Deep
Canyon Desert Research Center
http://nrs.ucop.edu/Boyd-Canyon-Desert.htm for dinner, encampment
and the continuation of the gathering, that will, among other themes
explore:
- future desert ecologies
- native desert knowledge systems
- sustainable design strategies for a world without water
- desert soundscapes
- desert navigation
- the new desert social order
- desert food and waste cycles

We encourage applications from artists, scientists, activists,
academics and any other interested parties. Full information and
application instructions can be found at:
http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu/Desert%20Residency%20CFP.html

The gathering in the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center will take
place over two days and will be designed as an Open Space workshop.
Using Open Space Technology, a pro-active facilitation technique, the
gathering aims to encourage the reciprocal exchange of information,
knowledge and experience in a non-hierarchical manner. Participants
will camp in the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert research area and will share
the responsibilities of organization, cooking and discussion. All
participants share the responsibility for creating a dynamic
environment of ideas and connected passions, while each of the
participants is asked to act and contribute as they see fit.

Please contact ZouZou Manos, UCIRA Program Coordinator, for further
information emanos@ucira.ucsb.edu. The application deadline for the
desert program is February 7th 2009.

About Luminous Green
Luminous Green is a series of gatherings about possible futures, about
a world of culture and creativity that is enlightened, imaginative,
critical, reflective, electrified and living in a fertile symbiosis
with the rest of the planet. The gathering in the Palm Desert and the
workshop at UCSB are part of a series of events that were initiate by
FoAM (http://fo.am) in Belgium, calling on the creative sector
encompassing arts, sciences and engineering to enrich the public
debate about environmental sustainability, ethical living,
eco-technology and design. The workshops aim to encourage
transdisciplinary discussions between artists, designers, academics,
engineers, activists, social entrepreneurs, tactical media workers,
economists and policy makers whose practice is informed by ecological
thinking as a core value or major concern. http://www.luminousgreen.org/

More about Open Space Technology:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace
http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-Openspace.html

This project is supported by UCIRA, UC Riverside Palm Desert Graduate
Center, UC Santa Barbara Arts Research Initiative, Ministry of Culture
Republic of Slovenia, Zavod Projekt Atol, FoAM

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