ama-teur: one who loves
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we never create alone
Like a musical jam session or a multi-ingredient soup, workshopology is the collective and experiential process of togetherness, creating spaces and temporalities where knowledge unfolds through experimentation, inter-disciplinarity, anti-coloniality and negotiations across pluri-versal visions. It opens our methodologies into a participatory practice of shared world-making, where creation becomes a collaborative process rather than an individual act.
The term originates from an open-source bio-art network called Hackteria, where knowledge is shared non-hierarchically, authority is distributed, and process is valued above predetermined outcomes. It builds on the concept of public amateurism, defined by artist Claire Pentecost as the process of learning, doing, and failing in the public sphere. More poetically said, workshopology is where we learn what works and doesn’t work under an ethos of love and care.
# the three cores of workshopology needed for relation-making and entangled transformation
seeds of awakening
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the action dimension
Workshopology is a service to the planet, where we enter into the dimension of awakened action. It grounds itself in the recognition that we are beings of the earth, enmeshed in its joys, wounds, transformations, and political ecologies. Despite centuries of colonial thinking that has created the illusion of separateness, to be is to inter-be with everything else. We inter-are. Collective and participatory structures of workshopology can nurture attunement, repair, and new forms of co-creating with the more-than-human. These methodologies channel our experiences into medicine for the world, addressing contemporary conditions of alienation, erasure, scarcity, and uncertainty.
Workshopology invites us to trust that what we need is already present among us, waiting to be activated through the alchemy of collective process. When we workshop together, we not only share knowledge, but we tend the conditions from which new worlds can take root.
# the sword that cuts through illusion to reach the shore of enlightenment