Applied Ecological Listening
Applied Ecological Listening
A workshop and lecture series in three iterations with Daniela Medina Poch, Yuri Tuma, and Tim Rudbøg respectively, facilitated by Bureau for Listening.
Organized by Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE) and Bureau for Listening as part of the The Listening Biennial programme in Copenhagen running through September and October.
Applied Ecological Listening (noun) (a possible definition)
A practice of attunement that unsettles human-centered ways of knowing, leaning into the thresholds where bodies, environments, and temporalities entangle, shifts, and become. It resists capture and control, embracing a poetic of uncertainty, fragmentation, and the unfinished. Applied ecological listening is less about decoding meaning than inhabiting resonance — sensing vibrations, silences, and relational flows that exceed the self. It invites a radical reorientation: from mastery to reciprocity, from possession to participation, from knowledge as certainty to knowledge as care.
Choreography
While each session will be situated differently, proposing and practicing Applied Ecological Listening in its own way, they will all evolve from a shared, repeated choreography.
Landing and Arrival
Upon arriving at the site of the session, we will begin with a slow reading of THE BIG WELCOME for Applied Ecological Listening. This will serve as a way to properly land in the landscape — arriving as visitors, with openness and attention.
Framing
For each session, we will share the latest updated version of a possible Applied Ecological Listening Manifesto. This will offer a conceptual framing of Applied Ecological Listening: what it can mean, what transformative potentials it carries, what lingering questions arise, and what complex relations it may attend to.
Presenting and Exploring
The invited presenters will unfold their own Applied Ecological Listening practices and research. Together, we will encounter new insights and experiences — attempting to practice and embody Applied Ecological Listening, rather than ‘simply’ proposing it.
Sharing and Outro
We will close each session with space for both individual and collective reflections. Sharing one’s experiences and questions becomes an invitation for others to listen and receive. The form of this sharing will be facilitated differently from session to session, attuning to how different ecologies invite — and sometimes require — different modes of reflection, exchange, and departure.
Documentation
All sessions will be documented in ways that propose new paths forward, rather than merely recording where we have been. The intention is not to provide proof or definitive answers about what took place. Instead, we will offer new questions, inspirations, and poetic material — contributing to the evolving threads and practices of future Applied Ecological Listening.
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A Good Listener Knows That Knowledge is Everywhere, And. –– A Spiral Lecture in the Context of Applied Ecologies
with Daniela Medina Poch and the winds of Amager Fælled
