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North by Northeast NXNE August 2025
Stuart MacAlpine
Ben Mardell
Kate Higgins
Nicolina Rea
Katie MacCracken
NXNE was a three day immersive hosted event focused on posthumanism and the energy transition in the North Atlantic Rim. We explored key post humanist ideas such as kin-making, sympoesis, entanglement, the ontological turn, notions of cyborg and companion species, ghosts & monsters and the philosophical genealogy of post humanism in the context of asking what should education look, feel and sound like as we transition from industrial to regenerative practice.
The sessions included policy makers from Education Scotland, academics from Cambridge, Harvard Project Zero, Aarhus university, Melbourne University, NGOs and the International School of Aberdeen and Newtowne School in Cambridge Massachusetts, alongside students who are still experiencing school. The event was supported by a partnership with the Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen, and the artist Ade Adesina.
A ‘zine to capture insights will be published shortly.
The event is one in a series of events held in relation to the International School of Aberdeen as it navigates the energy transition in Europe’s former oil capital and the future heart of the UK’s transition to renewable energy, a move mirrored in the school’s transition from industrial to regenerative education.
Day one
Nature monsters and ghosts in the landscape
Day two
Energy ownership and flow of energy
Day three
Relationships regenerative education
Material entanglements and agential realism
