Living Definition Transformative Design in its most explicit terms is a practice in which an object, system, or relationship is made with open, authentic, and accountable dialog that invokes intention, takes stock of emotional engagement, and the residual consequences and feedback loops of production on the finite and animate landscape. Origin Point: Viewing Culture as an Emplaced Phenomenon 1969 […]
Read more "TRANSFORMATIVE DESIGN"Unbelievably proud to announce that the project I’ve been working on for Warrior Films has come to fruition. The short film [11 min] and supplemental guides/curricula that seek to offer invitations to begin dialog surrounding the need and incorporation of meaningful and intentional rites of passage and mentorship in families, communities, schools, organizations, etc are available […]
Read more "MENTORING THE FUTURE IS HERE!"Without using explicatives every other word to express our excitement [which verges on spontaneous combustion] we are deeply jubilant to announce that Make Trybe and For Strange Women Perfume are holding hands. For those of you living on another planet [aromatically speaking] For Strange Women is the brainchild of the modern day alchemist Jill McKeever, […]
Read more "GETTING STRANGE"What is it to live the examined, emplaced, and initiated life? No matter where you are in it, beginning, end, or in between, creating time away to take inventory of who you are, what is serving you and shedding the extraneous is a vital part of a functioning and flourishing existence, to go up to […]
Read more "SPRING PROGRAM OFFERINGS"The school is proud to announce the addition of D. Shattuck to its band of bleeding hearts, rogue scholars, and cultural alchemists. D. has come on to co-lead and develop the Queer Quest program, a 7 week vision fast offering geared specifically for LGBTQ youth and adults, as well as collaborating on the Saved By Fiction Literary Meditation […]
Read more "WE WELCOME D. SHATTUCK TO THE TRYBE"I dreamed that I woke up and found you standing on the beach. A storm was coming in purple and you watched it. Your back to me, your matted hair stuffed with sand. Then I knew it was a dream. You were caked in it, as though buried and unburied. As though an animal, rolled […]
Read more "SAVED BY FICTION: KOCHMAN"Pretty powerful short on a collective of badass women that came together for a project called ‘Deep Lab’ in which they investigate surveillance, power structures on the internet, digital identity, and the rational dilemma of freedom vs cultural engagement. Definitely worth your time. Deep Lab from Deepspeed media on Vimeo.
Read more "DEEP LAB: AN INQUIRY INTO DIGITAL IDENTITY"Dear teachers, parents, professors, friends, colleagues and human beings, As some of you know, we have partnered with a company called Warrior Films out of Oakland on what we call the ‘Mentoring the Future Initiative.’ This consists of a 10 minute short film detailing the need for meaningful rites of passage for our young people in […]
Read more "MENTORING THE FUTURE INITIATIVE: CALL FOR REVIEW"All I know is that I’ve wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I’d get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don’t want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless […]
Read more "SAVED BY FICTION: ISHIGURO"A few years ago I wrote a thesis that explored art and wonder in western culture. The central claim was that Greco-Roman and Native North American traditions and practices were two branches of a central river that needed to be understood holistically as “kin” or coming to delta and disseminating into the greater ocean of […]
Read more "THE NINE-FOLD PATH: STORY AS A TOOL FOR DEEP COMMUNITY"
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