Most importantly, we are learning that making collective and collectively making is like building a qanat, it is like digging a hole together. With enough effort, that hole can be extended into a tunnel, possibly connecting to other holes, becoming a channel, gradually intersecting with others to form a network, now open to flows of new relations and different ideas, forming an imperfect and ever changing whole. We could then sediment together, forming collective habits, rhythms, and motions. This means preparing together and training together to tunnel under whatever may come. We can always dig a little further, but we cannot fully predetermine, or even less own, the spaces e have dug.

“Learnings from the Underground Waters,” Francesca Masoero for QANAT.