listeningaca@gmail.com

We’re interested to research and test listening as an emergent strategy, and how it may contribute to manifesting the just and liberated worlds we long for. This will integrate a number of key concerns and directions, including: exploring ways of listening to and through conflict (witnessing and repair); attuning and re-tuning sonic sensitivities (navigating multi-agent awareness); listening as a path to creative-collaborative embodiments (feelings of interdependency); acoustic justice and the language of listening (becoming a listening-citizen); and using collective listening as a tool for imagining possible future communities (noticing and sensing otherwise).

Through collaborative sharing, reflection and investigation, we’ll follow these and other directions in order to map listening as an emergent strategy. This will include material testing and creative methodology, involving ourselves in experiences and experiments in listening as well as relating to our environments. Through the exchange of individual and shared knowledges, we aim to deepen understanding of listening’s role in shaping change.