Celestial Wayfindings - A Sign in Space Workshop with Willi Lempert

Zoom Workshop Recorded on May 26, 2023

Celestial Wayfindings
Host: Willi Lempert

This hour-long workshop focuses on non-Western perspectives that understand the celestial as neither alien nor outer. In reflecting on the A Sign in Space project, we will engage in activities that explore how intelligent extraterrestrials might imagine language and spacial mapping in radically different ways. The workshop is grounded within anthropologically-informed aspects of Polynesian wayfinding, nomadic spacial orientation, and how language itself structures what can be communicated. Throughout, these discussions will be related to examples from science fiction stories that bring speculative possibilities of SETI to life.

References:
Star Trek: The next generation episode Darmok in under 8 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ8_F6jYWv4

Willi Lempert's Blog:
https://medium.com/space-anthropology/navajos-on-mars-4c336175d945

Willi Lempert's Works:
https://bowdoin.academia.edu/WilliamLempert

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