{"id":19631,"date":"2024-09-24T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/making-kinships-un-atto-intenzionale-e-creativo\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:11:08","slug":"making-kinships-un-atto-intenzionale-e-creativo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/making-kinships-un-atto-intenzionale-e-creativo\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Kin*: an intentional and creative act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">\u00abGenealogies are not only about tracing lines of descent; they are also about recognizing the interconnections, the friendships, and the alliances that we forge in the world.<br>[&#8230;]<br>We will have to learn to live in the cracks of things. In the broken places. It is there, in the seemingly inconsequential and the overlooked, that life thrives. And it is there that we must learn to cohabit with the earth, to share space with what is other than human, to be undone in each other\u2019s presence\u00bb.&nbsp;<br><br>\u2014 Bayo Akomolafe, These Wilds Beyond Our Fences (2017)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:24px\">In 2025, BASE will focus on \u201cmaking kinships\u201d as an intentional and creative act, moving beyond biological connections to build meaningful relationships among humans, non-human beings, and more-than-human entities.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">This exploration aims to rethink relationships from an ecological and intersectional perspective, fostering coexistence and collaboration, where interdependence and alliance replace division and exclusion.&nbsp;<br><br>Anna Tsing writes:<br>\u00abwe are never static individuals; from the beginning, we have lived in collaboration with all sorts of beings\u00bb\u00b9&nbsp;, emphasizing that our existence is interwoven with others. This prompts us to view kinship as a network of new connections that include other-than-human creatures and entities with whom we share our ecological space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:24px\">This reflection evolved from a year-long program on conviviality, exploring how we inhabit the city, the body, and the planet.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The course on \u201cconvivialism\u201d stemmed from a direct connection with Milan\u2019s housing emergency, which mirrors global instability and social fragmentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Worldwide, social ties have frayed, while biological kinship has fueled ethnic and religious conflicts, stressing the need for relationships that transcend historical and ideological \u201cothering,\u201d which dehumanizes the perception of others in society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:24px\">Making kinship represents an invitation to rethink how we relate across generations and genders.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">BASE will explore alliances based on shared choices, affinities, and mutual sensitivities rather than familial or speciesist ties. This approach builds <strong><em>kinships<\/em><\/strong>\u00b2 on care and the recognition of differences, forging intergenerational and intersectional networks to challenge traditional hierarchies and oppressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The new kinships BASE proposes are acts of creative resistance, aiming to dismantle the exclusivity of biological ties and create bonds of choice and co-creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">\u00b9 Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, <em>The Mushroom at the End of the World. 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