---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gediminas Urbonas <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:47 AM Subject: FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT in Folkestone on Sept 3 To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Dear Michel, I'm writing to send you the details of the Sept. 3 *FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT*, to be held at the Folkestone Town Hall from 11AM - 6pm. Future Energy Summit engages the emerging field of energy humanities, and the discourses of the future of energy and post-fossil fuel transition, to explore multidisciplinary approaches to energy, including non-human energy production by organisms such as bacteria or fungi, and the forms of energy in an expanded field, from psychotropic plant or mushroom induced altered states of mind to hybrid infrastructures. According to Imre Szeman, one of the contributors of Future Energy Summit, the narrative of fossil fuel based modernity is already a fiction that made the expansive use of energy invisible for the sake of exhausted models of ‘progress’ and ‘freedom’. Therefore, the key question raised on the occasion of this Summit is: how can we “rewrite” these fictions, unearthing our relation to energy production processes that are already part of natural systems and reprogramming our relation to our own and other human and non-human bodies? The *FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT* program can be found here: http://www.zooetics.net/lectures/ or here: http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk/events/event/future-energy-summit/ *Folkestone QuarterHouse is handling reservations here:* https://www.quarterhouse.co.uk/whats-on/future-energy-summit Free entry, though registration required. *Poster of the Summit is in the dropbox:* https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y8vyvohsa6sye5n/AAA8aQdegNLp2p8ijXpgMEjwa?dl=0 *Please help to communicate the Summit to your networks, friends and colleagues!* Just to let you know of the Triennial’s opening events. On the 2nd of Sept. all the works will be open to public, including the *Folke Stone Power Plant*, our work commissioned by the Triennial. The Stone Power Plant is sited in front of Folkestone Museum, in the ancient Market Place. It was inspired by the writings and drawings of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th Century polymath whose studies in geography and the environment initiated the science of ecology. The 'stone' contains innovative organic batteries (storing electricity capable of powering the adjacent lamp-post. As part of the opening events there is a symposium titled *On the Edge: Time and Truth:* http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk/learning/symposia/on-the-edge/ we are speaking on our work in that symposium on the panel titled Geological Time and slated from 4:30PM other events on the 2nd: http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk/events/ Sorry for the short notice! with warm regards, Gediminas *Gediminas Urbonas* Associate Professor and Director * MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology * School of Architecture and Planning [email protected] Office: (617) 324-6471 Fax: (617) 253-3977 M.I.T., 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. E15-238 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA ACT: http://act.mit.edu Zooetics: http://www.zooetics.net Public Space? Lost & Found: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/public-space-lost-and-found *Exhibitions and Conferences* *Folke Stone Power Plant*, commissioned by the Double Edge - *Folkestone Triennial in UK* opening Sept.1, 2017 URL: http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk *On the Edge: Time and Truth,* Conference, Folkestone Triennial, UK Sept. 2, 2017 URL: http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk/events/event/folkestone- triennial-2017-opening-day-symposium-on-the-edge-time-and-truth/ *Future Energy Summit,* Conference and Workshop, Folkestone, UK Sept. 3, 2017 URL: http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk/learning/artist-led-events/ future-energy-summit/ http://www.zooetics.net *Zooetics Pavilion*, commissioned by the largest contemporary art event in Baltics - *Survival Kit 9*, *in Riga, Latvia* opening Sept.7, 2017 URL: http://www.survivalkit.lv/en/news/ *Survival Kit 9*, conference, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Latvia Sept.7, 2017 URL: http://www.survivalkit.lv/en/news/ *Het Nieuwe Instituut*, *Rotterdam*, The Netherlands Sept.14, 2017 URL: https://thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/activiteiten/protest *Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy, and Engagement,* the *A2RU* - *The Alliance for the the Arts in Research Universities* National Conference, Northeastern University in Boston. November 1 - 4, 2017 URL: http://a2ruevents.wixsite.com/a2ruboston *European Forum for Advanced Practices*, *WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels*, Belgium November 3-4, 2017 *Tuning Earths, *the *Whitechapel Gallery and Goldsmiths, University of London*, London, UK Nov. 30 - Dec.1, 2017. *Druzba*, commissioned for the Baltic Material Assemblies *exhibition at AA and RIBA in London, UK* opening March, 2018 *The Baltic Material Assemblies*, conference at* AA and RIBA in London, UK* March, 2018 *The Swamp Pavilion*, Urbonas are commissioned to curate the *Lithuanian National Pavilion* at the *Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition 2018* opening May 25, 2018 -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens