Avtonomi Akadimia, an Open Air University

A Dragon who either no longer exists, or does not yet exist, in the physically perceivable world lives in the ether — αἰθήρ — in the “upper air,” or in the “fire air”: the element beyond the four elements, closest to air. The Dragon moves among the clouds, gladly escaping all neurotypicalities*, and teaches us to perceive the catastrophes of our time as a process. The Dragon trusts what it cannot yet see. We will become this Dragon by breathing the air of political healing: Vietnamese Qi Gong.

We will be acknowledging the Akadimia Platonos Grove as part of a commons, and as such protected by the communities that live with it. Carried by the air, ideas are born in exchange.
Across two gatherings, Athens-based scientists, indigenous activists, artists and curators will unfold their recent books on care, ecofeminism and animism into a togetherness, forming a transformative educational cloud. 

Further artistic workshops, screenings and discussions with sisters and brothers who defend the air throughout across our world, all described in this journal or on this website, will enrich this day spent in the unique biotope of the Akadimia Platonos Grove.

* the term used by the philosopher Báyò Akómoláfé while speaking of the monsters in positive light: according to him, the monster is every way that neurotypicality tries to adjust for the edges, all the ways it tries to capture something that doesn’t quite fit in into its linguistic frameworks
Báyò Akómoláfé, “May We Live in Interesting Times,” Schumacher Center for New Economics, 2024