Permaculture as a model to redesign our relationship to disabilities (Part 2)

Description

Technology has populated the relationship we have with our health. We can now monitor it and alter it via technological interventions, and through our phones. Medicine, AI, and robotics merge in elaborate ways to improve our quality of life. But this cannot be done till there is nothing more than our brain left, as we are embodied brains and embrained bodies in a fluid relation with our environment. Bearing in mind the developments that occurred in health sciences due to its partnership with technology, we can assume that in a near future we will all be assemblages of biological matter, electronics, robotics, and metal.

Chronic pain is a disability, and as such, it is not a given condition but one that depends on how much society is built on the concept of ableness. It places its bearer in a liminal place by dismissing their agency and displacing them to a state of unrecognition. As shown by inspecting chronic pain, it is apparent that secluding our vulnerability from the rest of society, the world, and the matter results in complete
degradation. The elimination of differences is a way to bring societies towards monoculture, where diversity is seen as unproductive and as a threat to the integrity of the system.

Monocultural plantations are not sustainable. Therefore, we need to rethink our relations to technology when it comes to assisting us.

Period	14 Sept 2022
Event title	FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology
Event type	Conference
Location	Évora, PortugalShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International