Seismic Questions

Seismic Questions

Seismic Questions are the ones we rarely dare to voice — let alone live or embody. They shake the ground beneath our certainties. Too often, we stay silent out of fear: fear of losing our safety, comfort, reputation, stories, familiar ways of making sense — even our careers.

But now, we must move beyond the known. Beyond the lullabies of green promises and the illusion of silver-bullet solutions. It’s time to rewrite our past, present, and future — to question everything.

We need radical honesty. Unapologetic curiosity. A gigantic mirror to face ourselves — the humans blinded by the destructive promises of modernity, coloniality, capitalism, and neoliberalism — and to remember what it means to respect and nurture life.

Intentions of the Gatherings

During each open Seismic Question Gathering, we hold space for one question — one that is usually too uncomfortable, overwhelming, layered or uncertain to explore alone.

Together with the co-author who carries this question and is writing their chapter around it, we engage in an open conversation. We listen deeply. We inquire courageously. We let the question move us.

Questions Agenda

• 23 October - What if we learn how to speak whale? Guided by Ghalia Naseer.
• 27 November - What is wealth? Guided by Dorine van der Wijk.
• December - Break
• The questions for next year's gatherings will be communicated closer to the dates.

When?

Every 4th Thursday of the month
12.00 to 13.00 CET

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet