7000(+) HUMANS Phase 1, 2021-2023 + Phase 2, 2025
7000(+) HUMANS, map with participation clusters (2022). Copyright. Shelley Sacks / 7000(+) HUMANS Global Social Forest, 2022.
We are currently developing the next phase of the 7000(+) HUMANS.
The 7000(+) HUMANS is a call to people across the planet to create SITES OF COMMITMENT that form a ‘warmth body’ of commitments, insights and actions.
These sites of commitment create a SOCIAL MYCELIUM that can nourish the work towards a living future for all.
Using connective practice approaches, partnerships with trees and land, and working in global online forums and local on-the-ground hubs, the warmth body grows and produces SOCIAL HONEY.
7000 HUMANS grew out of reflections in the Kassel21-Social Sculpture Lab on Joseph Beuys’ 7000 Oaks, and ways to integrate social sculpture processes in a giant eco-social sculpture of insights, interspecies partnerships, and commitments to new ways of thinking and being. Phase 2 will be made public toward the end of 2025, online and through invitations to individuals and networks.
To intensify the ‘warmth body’ initiated in the first phase of 7000 HUMANS we are focusing on:
scaling out “moral imagination” practices
sharing new thinking-together methods and ways of creating “social honey”
developing a network of global workspaces and the “field of commitment” with tree and earth partners
offering participation in several “enquiry labs” - including a module exploring ‘intelligence’, the human being and AI.
To find out more about the various initiatives in the 7000(+) HUMANS
email: info@7000humans.com or contact Shelley Sacks: info@shelleysacks.com
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