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The 3 Ecologies project is an autonomous organization dedicated to participatory experimentation in research-creation. research-creation. It operates at the intersection of artistic practice, philosophy, and community engagement, building on the nearly two decades of experience of its former parent organization, SenseLab. Its aim is to catalyze the emergence of new forms of creative collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, and to disseminate the resulting “techniques of relation” for adoption by artists and social actors, for adaptation to their needs. …
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Spring Residency Retrospective
July 2025
Mid-summer is almost upon us already, as we look back on a busy spring. Starting in March, we tried out a new format for 3E activities. Danish 3E participant Mie Natius organized a rolling residency that lasted three months, through maple syrup season and the Plant Movement event into planting (and black fly!) season. Participants came and went, staying for periods from a few days to several weeks. Mie did a fantastic job of organizing the house, orienting arrivals, and helping orchestrate activities. In total, nearly 30 participants rolled through, making for a very animated season, with many new connections made. Generous contributions from participants, the largest sourced from grants, supported the guest house financially through this period, enabling us to remove it for the duration of the residency from the short-term rental market that is its usual means of sustenance. The maple season was a fruitful one. We produced 265 liters of some of the highest quality syrup we’ve made…
Land Defenders Mobilize Across Québec
June 2025
The Quebec government has submitted to the National Assembly a legislative proposal that will decimate Quebec’s public forests, which cover 92% of the province, or an area of 761,000 sq. km. (one and a half times the size of France). The bill, called Law 97, hands almost complete control over the forests to the lumber industry, which has overexploited the forests for decades, leading to the near eradication of old growth forest and the near extinction of the woodland caribou. To get a sense of how extreme the measure is, check out the list of some its provisions here…
Plant Movement Event
May 2025
The 3E land and its reawakening spring flora hosted an event that ran from May 17–22, 2025. Fifteen people came together on-site, periodically joined by a larger number online, around the questions raised by plant movement. The impetus for the event was seeded by the cinematic and theoretical work of filmmaker and 3E participant Oana Suteu Khintirian, in dialogue the burgeoning field of plant philosophy around issues such as agency, intelligence, intentionality, and the distinction between the plant and the animal. Following our usual 3E approach, the event combined philosophical readings with on-site activities growing out of emergent “pop-up propositions” launched by participants during the event…
3Ecologies Books – New Release: On the Trail of the Morning Star: Psychosis as Self-Discovery
by Dorothea Buck, Edited by Susanne Antonetta, Translation by Eva Lipton
Published: May 15, 2024
In 1936, at age nineteen, Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island in Germany…
3Ecologies Books – New Release: Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice
by Naomi Ortiz
Published: August 15, 2023
Disability justice and ecojustice are rarely considered together but are in constant conversation in our world. Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice, combining poetry and the lyrical essay, doesn’t contain just one point of view but encompasses dialectical perspectives which often exist in contradiction to each other…
3Ecologies Books – New Release: Open Book in Ways of Water
by Adam Wolfond
Published: July 14, 2023
In Open Book in Ways of Water, poet and artist Adam Wolfond explores the synaesthetic quality of autistic perception, the way in which water in its different materializations shapes and channels language. Building on notions such as “wetness,” “streams,” and “currents,” Wolfond constructs a linguistic universe in which writing and perception merge, move, and “pace to gether”…
fuit.es
fuit.es is a space for online composition that proposes to bring contrasting elements into play, into relation. Since 2019, it has grown into a transdisciplinary project involving many different artists working to create a space for collective artistic practice. This motivation has stemmed both from the urge to see more shared spaces for online dissemination of art and to develop asynchronous techniques for sparking and proliferating the individual and collective artistic practices of all those involved…
Reading Groups
Reading groups are a staple of ongoing 3E activities. 3E reading groups study a great variety of texts, but our main emphasis is on process thought (broadly understood, approaches that ask “how” rather than “what,” and begin from notions of event and activity rather subject or substance). There are currently three long-running reading groups meeting regularly. Details can be found here.
EN
The 3Ecologies Project is an autonomous organization dedicated to participatory experimentation in research-creation. It operates at the intersection of artistic practice, philosophy, and community engagement, building on the nearly two decades of experience of its parent organization, the SenseLab, based at Concordia Univerisity, a pioneer in the theory and practice of research-creation (senselab.ca). Its aim is to catalyze the emergence of new forms of creative collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, and to disseminate the resulting “techniques of relation” for adoption by artists and social actors, for adaptation to their needs. It seeks to operate as a “process seed bank” disseminating seeds of creative practice that can impart self-organizing momentum to outside artists, collectives, and organizations. The 3E Project operates as an extra-university research and learning environment, according to the principles of a processual gift economy. It is dedicated to an ethos of radical openness. A nonprofit organization registered in Quebec, all of its activities are open to all and free of charge. 3E places special emphasis on creating a welcoming environment for neurodiversity, not only supportive of but positively learning from the normally undervalued experiential and perceptual worlds of pathologized and racialized communities. The perspective is ecological, in an expanded sense adopted from philosopher/activist Felix Guattari. The “three ecologies” are the social, the environmental, and the conceptual, as they enmesh in every event. 3E poses the question of sustainability in that expanded framework. 3E operates as a node in the international network developed by the SenseLab, which includes over 800 participants worldwide, with active local groups in Montreal, Australia, Brazil, and several locations in Europe, and formal partnerships with more than two dozen university and art-organization partners. Distance collaboration tools are used to cross-pollinate ideas and approaches between network members. Activities cycle between online collaboration and live participatory research-creation events of experimental format. The development of new digital tools for cycling between locally embodied and networked online interactions as part of an integrated “creative process engine” is a long-term goal of 3E.
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Projet des trois écologies a pour mission d’établir et de développer un milieu d’apprentissage autonome et collaboratif, dédié à l’invention d’entrecroisements nouveaux entre la philosophie, l’art, et le milieu écologique. À cette fin, le Projet expérimentera des techniques d’enquête innovatrices catalysant l’émergence de pratiques collectives autogérées.
Ces objets seront atteints par la pratique active de la recherche philosophique et de la création artistique en offrant un accès libre et gratuit au savoir par le biais d’activités variées, axées sur la mobilisation, la diffusion et la circulation des techniques expérimentales développées au sein de l’Institut, le tout sans intention de gain pécuniaire pour ses membres.
Les objets mentionnés ci-dessus ne permettent toutefois pas d’offrir des services d’enseignement.
Dans le but de procurer un support financier à l’atteinte de ces objets, les moyens d’action suivants sont employés : présenter des demandes de subventions gouvernementales, recevoir des dons, legs et autres contributions de même nature en argent, en valeurs mobilières ou immobilière et administrer de tels dons, legs et contributions, organiser des campagnes de financement dans le but de recueillir des fonds pour fins charitables.