🆘 SOS 8 — RIVERBANKS & Imagining Ecoarchic Institutions
🆘 SOS 8: RIVERBANKS & Imagining Ecoarchic Institutions
This session of SOS will be a deep dive into the ongoing RIVERBANKS flagship climate fiction initiative (for both Seapunk Studios and Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026).
Session agenda:
RIVERBANKS project background and context
Impressions & Imaginations of the Mekong (selected takeaways from our RIVERBANKS Mekong Studio last month)
On Banks & Institutions As (Ecoarchic?) Social Technologies — a talk about the institution-design research and ideas underpinning the RIVERBANKS project
Preview of upcoming RIVERBANKS PLAYSHOP and open invite + Q&A (Sep 5, Sat, by Chao Phraya river in Bangkok)
Seapunk & community updates
Seapunk @ APFN
Riverbanks Playshop
Seapunk Cosmolocal September @ Chiang Mai #SC7
Cosmolocal CNX, Nomad Futures Lab, Riverbanks Studio, Cosmolocal College, Seapunk Scrapshop, etc.
Riverbanks Exhibition & Symposium @ BKKCAW Oct '26
Come learn more (and maybe consider joining the adventures)!
🌉 What is RIVERBANKS?
What if our most modern banks were owned by our most ancestral rivers?
RIVERBANKS is an open climate fiction initiative exploring the idea of ecoarchic, or nature-first, institutions, where nature is not just a resource or a stakeholder, but the boss.
Specifically the project imagines river-banks, or banks that are owned by and thus work for rivers (however / whoever we might imagine rivers and their interests).
What would these banks' missions and mandates be?
How would they organize?
What instruments and technologies would they employ?
What kinds of societies would they seek to infrastructure?
RIVERBANKS will culminate in an exhibition and symposium this October at Bangkok Climate Action Week.
Interested? Check out (and maybe join) our RIVERBANKS PLAYSHOP this coming Sep 5 by the Chao Phraya River (in Bangkok, not far from the oldest riverside bank!)
🆘 About SOS
SOS is a fortnightly online series at the spine of Seapunk Studios' 2026 season, offering an accessible yet live way to plug into the year's research, co-imaginations, and programs as they unfold.
Each SOS will feature a mix of thematic research discussion (talks, panels, etc.) and community updates.
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Seapunk Studios is an open roaming research-and-imagination collective interested in solarpunk ideas for Southeast Asia and the Global South, inspired by our historical open common sea and the emergent thriving ‘punk’ worlds it fostered.