Our 2019 Summer Institute is off and running, bursting at the seams with 22 participants! Week one was busy with biomimicry, book-binding, Octavia Butler, and lots of community building.
![Team building outside](https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RMQLQTK8Nw1W5yFjCvJah5oUhDXxK2QDHAvqyGIslGihMH7qU-sdQ9SdROA4SBRCSJOfgwwQWQnEzoINwdziiBXJDZihiqzl9T9PdM6q7VBMcLRcrMrFvz86YxMwFNMlXSesOOOAb6YJm4Ufc8cUhpKe8pimXaTbarw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7a06374868b767f09472fc663/images/cafa7ee3-1b79-4a27-91fd-559fd657ac83.jpg)
Our first guest teacher, artist Miatta Kawinzi, led us in a day of speculative design.
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In week two, we extracted DNA with scientist and writer Ekaterina Sedia.
![Science experiments](https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/ja0TcVvxs1aM-UaTJ4cwHVQLgGG4jV8ZqkSX5yFOmNbY5ho10-YecD2AD2hE7Qh6chhzqnwaY9GaDTI2i6CV80uhBy8255J5lgyJ1Lpwm51exlpnQDZ5H3r_u9y-z3ZR74SLXPkJSwAE8E5v25FmVvVSk7Iw7ZfSir4=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7a06374868b767f09472fc663/images/e9e87aae-3ffe-4d62-8b08-e115c2973aff.jpg)
We embodied urban planning with guest teacher Daphne Lundi, planning for climate risks in NYC hundreds and thousands of years in the future.
![Building a city](https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/VU2tZprbX861-xD4YyHeJyo_VotbLVde0Iq8NjadDNb44J_ru26_TM4WPHbpH2l7e0mAi298mHAqIi0RdXX3w1x9nLmRW0E29k6f46t3k1IN3nDKQ8miI0-16KOnIQMjGwkEfdbOXitzJoyc4Ez2hcWuELAohcgnvKs=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7a06374868b767f09472fc663/images/3a44751a-56a6-4b5a-85e3-fa46f913d0df.jpg)
Then we created emergent maps of future imaginary cities.
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The rest of week two was filled with Curanderismo and healing, book club, branching narratives, and collaborative story-building.
![Collaborative story-telling](https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/k7Q29RUQ5ywFfniC0Jso_paIR504AgtfCyrqwH68rjF2_vLvkfdgHCsl5CQI_ZHK1eKJsaTKQQA69XWBMQn5d9vk5MoTZyqM6BgymgzvAgTooO7_jz7xGW6mojPyj-qtN7RrSLX_RvrYj6PP7A9qcjWSbPCXmZdCd8o=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7a06374868b767f09472fc663/images/bbadd5e5-cb20-4700-9092-945bda6bedfe.jpg)
There’s still so much more to come this summer–look out for our next update in two weeks!