Restoring the LA Basin
David McConville and Dawn Danby are the co-founders of Spherical. In conversation with Matthew Monahan.
Spherical: https://spherical.studio/
Start Seeing LA’s Water Differently: https://vimeo.com/670304734
Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive: https://www.gaian.systems/cybernetic-countercultures-intensive/
Spherical Labs Resources: https://labs.spherical.studio
TOPICS
00:00 Introduction
03:08 About Spherical
04:38 Personal Journeys
11:56 Origins of the Name
16:18 Spherical's Work in Los Angeles
29:01 Navigating the Grants Process
36:12 The Hubris of Colonial Infrastructure
42:00 Localizing Technology for Regenerative Processes
47:52 Ontological Repair
49:34 Limits of Technology
EPISODE RESOURCES
Elumenati: https://elumenati.com
Worldviews Network: https://worldviews.webflow.io/
On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres (writing): https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/foahb-theses-other/108/
On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres (visuals): https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/On-the-evolution-of-the-heavenly-spheres-:-an-to-McConville/ea593de5dae8f377560f84480618aff74889250d
Regenesis Group: https://regenesisgroup.com/
Accelerate Resilience Los Angeles: https://acceleratela.org/
Tree People (Andy Lipkis): https://treepeople.org/
CORO Climate Fellowship: https://corola.org/crln/
Safe Clean Water Program: https://safecleanwaterla.org/
The Aqueduct Between Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3xwN3nKDUg
Hospicing Modernity book: https://www.amazon.com/Hospicing-Modernity-Humanitys-Implications-Activism/dp/B09GZ7GLTH/ref=sr_1_1
The Nutmegs Curse book: https://www.amazon.com/Nutmegs-Curse-Parables-Planet-Crisis/dp/0226823954/
Becoming Animist: GPT-3 and the Ontology of Relations: https://www.gaian.systems/becoming-animist-gpt-3-and-the-ontology-of-relations/
Making Kin with the Machines paper: https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lewis-arista-pechawis-kite/release/1
Distributed AI Research Institute: https://www.dair-institute.org/
Gaian Systems: https://www.gaian.systems/
Bruce Clarke at Texas Tech: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/scholars/bruceclarke.php
Gaian Systems book: https://www.amazon.com/Gaian-Systems-Neocybernetics-Anthropocene-Posthumanities/dp/1517909120/
End of You art exhibit: https://endofyou.io/
James Lovelock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock
Earth: Our Living Planet: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/earth-our-living-planet/
Lynn Margulis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis
Janine Benyus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_Benyus
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