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       title: November 28th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-11-28, 09:33:12 -08:00

     

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       link: https://ukaiprojects.com/pages/about

     

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       Very inspired learning about [[UKAI]], who are hosting some [workshops](https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/ukai-projects-26425493607) at [[Z-Space]]:

     

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       > "Our mission is 'culture for what’s coming'"

     

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       > "…we seek and test out approaches to culture that make sense of the world we are creating and handing down to future generations. 

     

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       > We call this work cultural research and development, and just like R&D in other fields, we are trying to make things better. In our case, we are trying to build resilience to massive volatility and change."

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         - UKAI Projects

     

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         - organization

     

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         - nonprofit

     

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         - Canada

     

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         - Toronto

     

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       link: https://ukaiprojects.com/

     

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       UKAI Projects is a federally incorporated non-profit cultural organization based in Canada and operating globally.

     

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       Our mission is “culture for what’s coming”. 

     

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       ## About

     

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       From the [About page](https://ukaiprojects.com/pages/about)

     

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       Although often invisible, culture shapes the ways in which we perceive and interact with the world around us. Culture includes:

     

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       - beliefs and values

     

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       - customs

     

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       - symbols and language

     

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       - objects and spaces

     

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       - institutions

     

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       - art and literature

     

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       - technology and tools

     

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       - rituals

     

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       <mark>…we seek and test out approaches to culture that make sense of the world we are creating and handing down to future generations.</mark>

     

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       We call this work <mark>cultural research and development, and just like R&D in other fields, we are trying to make things better. In our case, we are trying to build resilience to massive volatility and change.</mark>

     

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       Different groups will insist that they hold special, privileged knowledge of what these changes mean. Social media encourages us to take sides. But we shouldn't confuse these maps with the terrain.

     

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       As human beings we can't help but make meaning out of the experiences of our lives. We can allow for pre-existing ideologies to do the work of telling us what’s going on. Or we can do the work ourselves of assembling from events some coherent picture, and then become answerable for what happens next.

     

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       Life is simpler when there are two or three stories to choose from. However, there are infinite stories we might tell, as varied as we are.

     

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       The risk is letting things get rigid and this rigidity is what we are responding to.