UFƟ DARK SKIES

​Join us for UFƟ DARK SKIES, and meet a pool of speakers all contributing to new perspectives. UFƟ engages with the unknown, treating encounters not as problems to solve but as opportunities to rethink how we perceive and relate within an interconnected world. Through ‘Drifts’, open, exploratory gatherings, we invite playful, embodied learning and research as attunement.

​UFƟ DARK SKIES _ 0% Illumination marks the new moon, a time of darkness and renewal. Coinciding with “Blue Monday,” it reframes gloom as a chance to meet darkness as a living, vital space. As light pollution grows, we lose nocturnal life and stories that once honoured the night. This event calls for rediscovering darkness as a space of balance, imagination and connection.

​The session is set up with 8 speakers for short presentations and an embodied activated session for our online audience to explore and share back via image, text and improvisation.

​Sophie Austin (UK): What effort is it to sit in the light or sit in the dark?
Judith van den Boom (UK): How can we design for darkness to support ecological conditions?
Fabrizio Cocchiarella (UK): Para-Design as a space for imagination and connection in the unknown.
Nick Dunn (UK): Dark Sky Thinking / Dark Design Lab.
Tori Hydra (CA): Translation between mysticism and social context.
Emily Luce (CA): The Centre for Retrofitting and Failure Techniques (C.R.A.F.T.). qʷicčiƛma (the sky opened up).
Jessica Riquetti (CA): How do living things respond and navigate to light and the absence of it?
Tess Wehmeyer (NL): Shape-shifting as navigational practice when clarity disappears.

UFƟ centres phenomena because it seeks to engage directly with the unknown and the experiential processes that shape our realities. We treat these encounters not as mysteries to solve, but as opportunities to rethink how we perceive, relate, and design within an interconnected world. 

​Through initiating Drifts - whether online or situated - we resist predetermined outcomes and allow our events and gatherings to explore environments, ideas, and relations with openness. By drifting, we create space for playful and provocative encounters and embodied learning, transforming research into an act of attunement rather than constraint.

More information visit our website https://www.unidentifiedfacility.org/

With dark greetings,
Judith, Tess and Fabrizio