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Self-Organized Visual Assembly - 4 July
Special guests will join us starting July 4. They will share their stories of turning chalk ideas into real ideas.Re-imagine New York with us. Every week, we will decide together what’s missing, then bring it into chalky existence. Become Robert Moses’ worst nightmare!(Almost) Every Friday this summer, we are bringing the chalk. All we need […]
Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogues with Michael Hudson | part 2
If one starts poking at the history of debt, what one discovers is not a history of honor, or integrity, but a history of violence, slavery, and war. The world’s great empires were built on debt, and the moral claims of creditors have always been enforced by the threat of force. Graeber insisted that the […]
Visual Assembly: A Playground of the Future / Sigana International Storytelling Festival
Ways of imagining a playground as a space of collectivity and care Every society relies on collective storytelling and social bonds. David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky’s Anthropology for Kids books and workshops inspired the idea of Visual Assemblies, where people come together to collectively imagine the future. One long-standing focus of Visual Assemblies and Anthropology […]
Self-Organized Visual Assembly - 20 June
The theme this week is: PROTEST (Public ReOrganizing To Excitedly Stop Tyranny) What does New York look like after the final big protest? How do we occupy this Wall Street? What do we do with all this space? What goes in all these buildings? Does anything go in these buildings? Food and chalk will be […]
Self-organized Visual Assembly - July 18
Re-imagine New York with us. Every week, we will decide together what’s missing, then bring it into chalky existence. Become Robert Moses’ worst nightmare!(Almost) Every Friday this summer, we are bringing the chalk. All we need from you is your understanding of the city, your doodling abilities, and a desire to use our state-of-the-art chalk […]
Self-Organised Visual Assembly — 13 June
Report From June 13: We started with nature. Wheat fields, canals, islands. Manhattan used to have these things, but they are now hard to find. It was nice to imagine them coming back. As it was one of the first warm days, people thought about putting barbecues on the islands within the canals. Bike paths […]
Visual Assembly at Festival dei Matti, Venice
Between the 23rd and 25th of May, Nika Dubrovsky will hold a Visual Assembly at the Festival dei Matti in Venice, by involving speakers and participants in a conversation around this year’s theme of care and conflict. Held every year since 2009 in Venice, the ‘Festival dei Matti’ hosts a series of debates, lectures, interviews, […]
Spirulina Brainstorming Session / The Survival Kit Collection
We’ve just completed our first spirulina workshop in Saint Vincent, and we’d love to continue this work—not only by creating practical farms or supporting home-scale production across the Caribbean, but also by launching a broader campaign to explain why spirulina matters. Our goal is to shift spirulina from the elite health food market into something […]
Debt, Empire, and the Future: Michael Hudson & Devika Dutt in conversation with David Adler
The first part of this series will take part on May 2, 12pm NYC / 5pm London time. The discussion will be streamed online on the DGI Youtube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe to get a notification when we go live. If one starts poking at the history of debt, what one discovers is not […]
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Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogues with Michael Hudson | part 2
If one starts poking at the history of debt, what one discovers is not a history of honor, or integrity, but a history of violence, slavery, and war. The world’s great empires were built on debt, and the moral claims of creditors have always been enforced by the threat of force. Graeber insisted that the […]
Visual Assembly: A Playground of the Future / Sigana International Storytelling Festival
Ways of imagining a playground as a space of collectivity and care Every society relies on collective storytelling and social bonds. David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky’s Anthropology for Kids books and workshops inspired the idea of Visual Assemblies, where people come together to collectively imagine the future. One long-standing focus of Visual Assemblies and Anthropology […]
Self-Organized Visual Assembly – 4 July
Special guests will join us starting July 4. They will share their stories of turning chalk ideas into real ideas.Re-imagine New York with us. Every week, we will decide together what’s missing, then bring it into chalky existence. Become Robert Moses’ worst nightmare!(Almost) Every Friday this summer, we are bringing the chalk. All we need […]