TTF 2021 - Terra-Collar Work

Terra-Collar Work / Терра Работа
terracollar.work/
Juaniko Moreno Cabeza (CO) | Gregg Tendai Mudhuwiwa (ZW) | Nastia Volynova (RU)
The Terra-Collar project provides a different view on the future of work, one that responds to the goal of staying below 2°C degrees by 2050. The project departs from the discussions about working hours reduction, nonwork advocacy and transition of the entire labor force to coding and data science. Instead, it argues that future work will be tethered to the very material processes of climate change mitigation and adaptation. This new type of work necessarily strides away from the white and blue-collar distinctions and emerges as a new category of its own: Terra-Collar. Scaling up to the amount of produced carbon emissions and limiting global warming will require an effort equivalent to the largest terraforming project in human history. It will demand mass labor mobilization as well as new knowledge, skills, and jobs to appear and disseminate across the globe. The end of time narratives that describe the climate crisis have demonstrated their inability to instigate effective actions against the problems that become more tangible every year. A new story is needed for the times we inhabit, one that motivates action with the tools at our disposal.
Credits:
The project was developed during The Terraforming 2021 at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, Russia
theterraforming.strelka.com/
Project team: Juaniko Moreno Cabeza, Gregg Tendai Mudhuwiwa, Nastia Volynova
Program Directors: Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev
Additional Credits:
Sound design:
Nelson Sanchez
Special thanks:
Angelina Davydova
Holly Jean Buck
Liam Young
Nick Srnicek
The TTF faculty and speakers
&
Kristina Shalygina
The TTF 2021 researchers