Finding Seeds
The benefit of looking at seeds is that it gives rise to really concrete, interesting examples, but in this exercise it has its limits as well. You can find all the seeds we found together at the bottom of this page. When we sort them into certain typologies we lay bare what is missing:
When we categorize the seeds by what they try to do, what their main goal is, we can easily see that the found examples are mainly things that already explicitly position themselves as being in touch with mystery, depth and sacredness, or connect mystery to an existing practice. We miss the things that have similar power, but don鈥檛 frame themselves as having it. The focus on the radical and alternative (character of seeds) might be the limiting factor in this, since it seems to favour things that explicitly rally against the status quo, which here coincides with being explicitly for depth.
Alternatively, when we apply Cassie Robinson鈥檚 existing typology for imagination infrastructures, we notice that most of the seeds mentioned are actually not infrastructures at all, but rather the practices that require them. To get to the infrastructures we then need to ask what the conditions are that enable the seed to exist. Moreover, there is a focus on the sites of practice and the communities that exist in them or emerge from them, but other conditions that do the interpreting, visualizing and supporting are not that well represented. The infrastructures that are here are very often temporal, physical en man-made as well, we don鈥檛 see as much attention for the long-lasting, mental or meta-physical and natural.