Facilitator
Open Instagram for ten minutes. Notice what happens to your body.
You didn’t log on hungry. But now you want a better apartment, a different body, a trip you’d never considered. Nobody forced you. You just saw a few images…
This is the most underexamined form of influence in modern life: the image that tells you what contentment looks like, what satisfaction looks like. And because it is visual, it bypasses argument entirely. You do not disagree with a picture; you simply feel lacking. Wanting is not a problem, until it gets hijacked: engineered for urgency, designed to never satisfy, optimised to keep you starving.
This is a small-group workshop for the curious. Using drawing, writing, and mind-mapping, you will learn to slow the machinery down and look at it directly. Where do your wants actually come from? Which ones are yours?
This workshop has limited capacity. Please register your interest only if you are able to stay for the entire duration of the event. Participants will be selected based on responses to the RSVP form, and will receive an email confirming a spot.
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Facilitator
Aastha D
Aastha D is a writer, critic, educator, and cultural strategist working across art, architecture, culture, and design. She has a background in architecture and its critical practices from Columbia University, New York. Alongside writing, she teaches ethics, critical thinking, and design theory at various institutes. Aastha is the Founding Editor of Proseterity, an independent international literary arts magazine, and Critiqala, its education vertical dedicated to fostering critical thinking in the public sphere.
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