In the workshop “The Dystopia-Utopia of Akadimia Platonos: From doom to dawn, or do we want to imagine different futures?“ we will talk about Plato, Thomas Morus, the prophets, the poets, and Ethnobiologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, envisioning different ideas for our relationship with the land: at the place/land where Plato, the author of Politeia, one of the first utopian texts, taught 2500 years ago.
Using techniques of awareness, narration, cultural, historical, philosophical background we will narrate or write, draw, perform different futures: for the park, for US and our relation to THE LAND. And understand what it means to be thankful to the what the plants teach and gift: oxygen, carbohydrates, and lessons about how to not extract but immerse.
Bring your ideas, your hopes, your fears for the future of this park to this workshop, where we shall discuss them – in mindful company with all inhabitants of and around the park.
If you want to read before: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass; further, Plato, Politeia; Thomas Morus, Utopia
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Tania Hron studied cultural anthropology, literature, cultural science and media philosophy at Humboldt University, Berlin. She collaborated with the media philosopher Friedrich Kittler. Currently she is working for different contemporary history museums in Berlin, including Memorial Site Stasi Prison, where she performs intense public tours talking about political oppression and persecution.
Tania Hron collaborates with Avtonomi Akadimia since 10 years: She taught media theory on Syntagma Square and shamanic knowledge in the Down to Earth exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin, as well as she was co-hosting an educational program at the Sun Machine is Coming Down, ICC Berlin.