With Kris de Decker and Hypercomf
(in English)

What is considered today as low-tech and what can slow practices bring to a time of hyperproductivity and overconsuption? What does it take to change pace and what are the costs? How can art, design and technology contribute to building a more sustainable society? The speakers of this panel will respond to such questions with examples from their own artistic practice and way of living. Kris De Decker will discuss the possibilities of embracing low tech solutions and approaches that respect primarily and horizontally needs and not wants, highlighting the relation of time to energy, and of speed to resources’ exploitation. Hypercomf will refer to artworks, prototypes and objects that take into consideration human and non-human worlds, turning also to local and situated knowledge. Finding time to observe, to notice, to experience and to get to know how systems operate, is proposed as the way to learn how to become self-sufficient and to save time and energy for the generations to come.