Warm Data Labs

WE NEED ANOTHER KIND OF INFORMATION

The way we look at systems up to now is mostly by decontextualizing them. But the data that we put into excel sheets and databanks is stripped of contextual information, of warmth, of information about the interdependencies of these very systems we are looking at and we’re part of. What happens then is that we externalize all sorts of things we don’t understand about the system, or don’t even see, whilst pretending the system we’re looking at is doing fine.

If we want to get anywhere near a healthy planet for all living beings, we need another kind of information and another process of in-forming ourselves.