What is Experience? (2022–2024) reflected on, refracted through, and diffracted across six years—two trilogies—of the What is…? Series. Experience has a long history in philosophy and more recently in systems, intersectionality, networks, criticism, dialogue and debate, organizing, responsibility, care ethics, sociology, critical cybernetics, globalization, sense-making, planning, critical advertizing, and ecofeminism. Some areas of exemplary inquiry include autopoiesis, feminism, flow, activism, politics, organization, peace and justice, economics, relational ethics, science and technology studies, ecological futures, democratization, multimodal communication education, social ecology, transformational change and justice, as well as fusions of art-science-design, recognizing patterns in the world, and interplays of change and continuity in the 21st century.
Dedicated to the experience and memory of
• And, All Those We Remember •
2022-2024 marked the twelfth annual What is…? and recognition of collaborative transdisciplinary research networks cultivating experiences as the heart of culture, nature, and pluriverse. What is…? returns to the analogue!
UO Portland • 2016
NW Film Center/Portland Art Museum
UO Portland • 2017
Portland Japanese Garden
UO Portland • 2018
Newmark Theatre • Portland Center Stage
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
UO Portland • 2019
Oregon Museum of Science & Industry
The Harry C. Kendall Planetarium
UO Cyberconference • 2020
Oregon Historical Society
UO Remote • 2021
Speaker Series • Virtual Screening