Design Temples for Modding Worlds

Playful Imagination: We center joy, curiosity, and seek to leverage the imagination in creating new social realities and possibilities.

Hacking: We seek to disrupt oppressive systems that emerge in our everyday activities and relationships and to iteratively design for and dream new equitable, just, and liberatory futures. We believe liberation involves projecting ourselves and our communities in the future, taking up physical, virtual, and metaphorical space.

Glitching: We embrace the complexity of social and political projects by making visible the histories of disturbances emerging across our everyday lives. These are technological canaries in coal mines that reflect larger ideologies. We also seek to exploit these disturbances through forms of counterplay. 

Farming: We create, gather, and share ideational and material tools for dreaming new landscapes, tinkering with ideology, and worldmaking. We continually interrogate the spaces we occupy and cultivate practices that inspire new relationships between technologies, ourselves, our communities, and our greater than human siblings—all of the realms of being. 

Firewalling: We are committed to developing trust across our ecology and to creating boundaries that safeguard our valued practices, relationships, and commitments for community liberation, love, and resistance. Collective introspection and awareness are vital to linestepping and grace as we demolish barriers that restrict community agency, opportunities for an unmitigated existence, and amplification of our collective hopes.

(Re)spawning: We have permission to embrace agency in our everyday practices and to re-imagine our relationships with our worlds, each other, and ourselves. We intentionally create new lives and new relationships within and with our communities, designing for our collective survival—as such, we are modding, transforming, and re-imagining histories of dispossession and cultural erasure.