Spiral Congress of the Americas
Amplifier’s Spiral Congress of the Americas proposal for the Mextrópoli competition argues that movement between all countries in the Americas should be open to all.
Post-American World: Toward Planetary Governance
Amplifier presents a three-day symposium offering transformative and practical visions for near-future ecological governance of the world.
World Governing Bodies
Amplifier has convened a group of artists, designers, architects, cultural theorists, critics, ecologists, and thinkers to imagine a new system of hyper-local and planetary governance that makes use of contemporary technology, social research, scientific knowledge, worldviews, and assumptions.
Responding to the Emerging Challenges of Media and Governance
Amplifier will propose a series of initiatives that aim to use emerging ideas, media, design, and aesthetic strategies to raise the visibility of alternative political and economic frameworks, and advance institutional transformation.
Worldbuilding References
An ongoing collection of references shared during Amplifier worldbuilding discussion
Declaration of Right to Movement of Indigenous People
Indigenous people have suffered from historic injustices due to colonization, dispossession of their lands, and deprivation of resources. For thousands of years before the creation of sovereign states by European migrants to the Western Hemisphere, indigenous people traded, traveled across, and lived throughout the lands now divided by international borders. Amplifier calls for official recognition of the right of indigenous people to move across the borders which they traversed historically.
Propositions for a Planetary Layer
As the animal Homo sapiens came to dominate the Earth’s terrain over the course of its history, the planet experienced accelerating extremes. Every kind of natural ecosystem suffered degradation from its activity: ocean, forest, lake, plain, river, mountain, valley, wetland, tropic, desert, semidesert, permafrost. Extinction of plants and wildlife increased the velocity of violent changes already underway to the point where Homo sapiens came to threaten its own existence as a species.
Worldbuilding Curriculum
The Worldbuilding curriculum is the intellectual foundation of a global imaginary that transcends existing physical, political, and ideological boundaries. It seeks to respond to the question: what must all people know and how can we lay the groundwork for a new episteme of global future-flourishing.
Flint Public Art Project
The project documents and amplifies the many ways local residents, businesses and institutions are transforming Flint.
Press
“Amplifier spun off the Flint Public Art Project as a separate group in 2018. Its board has been meeting since just before the Covid crisis to determine how to proceed. The problems it identified have only been exacerbated by the pandemic — a failure of institutions, disinformation, and distrust that calls even basic facts into question.”