Reinventing the Wheel: A Conversation in Future Retrospect

Reinventing the Wheel: A Conversation in Future Retrospect is a participatory art/community activism project that will involve multi-modal efforts over the past 25 years to change paradigms of climate inaction. It will reinvent the conceptualization of technology to incorporate a wide array of tools, discourses, networks, methods. The project will inform a nuanced approach to public interest technology, featuring storymaps, videos, artmaking, small agriculture, urban concepts, children’s lessons, counter-narratives, video game designs, eco-parks, citizen science, and permaculture, as systems to imagine more equitable social relations.

The installation will include interactive elements as well as workshop-based “happenings” intended to challenge previously unexamined concepts related to the human-earth-technology relationship. It will draw from numerous interventions, from the classroom to community organizing and from political advocacy to law.

Reinventing the Wheel: A Conversation in Future Retrospect is presented by Jason Michael Leggett, Center for Civic Engagement at Kingsborough Community College.