In this conversation, Prof. John Byrne and PhD candidate and curator Alessandra Saviotti discuss some new content and intentions for Decentralising Political Economies at the horizon of the exhibition Economics the Blockbuster at The Whitworth in Manchester.
They refer to the text 'From Decentralising Political Economies to Economics The Blockbuster', a text that launches the next phase of the research that is going to be published on this platform.
In this video, co-editors of dpe.tools Alessandra Saviotti and John Byrne analyse some key concepts and questions that emerged after the first week of workshops and panel discussions as part of DPE: Roaming Symposium.
Even though the topic of being in the midst of a pandemic has been always in the background, it was the first time that it was discussed over both sessions. It emerged the idea of the pandemic as a portal to perhaps reconsider our won locality. It also emerged how seriously it should be taken the 'space of encounter', being either virtual or in real life as a possible way to generate new forms of collaborations or support structures.
Co-editors of dpe.tools Alessandra Saviotti and John Byrne analyse some key concepts and questions that emerged after the first week of workshops and panel discussions as part of DPE: Roaming Symposium.
Words such Dreams, Post-scarcity, Immediate Intimacy, Tequio, Power of Assembly and Power of Storytelling are some of the concepts emerged as a pattern across the different sessions.