Community Portal is an open-source decolonial collaborative technology for listening with your more-than-human community and local watershed. Engaging with practices of ancestral imagination (Petra Kuppers) and recuperation (Marlon Jiménez Oviedo) this workshop will explore the potential for urban computing and pervasive media to allow for a re-sensing of your own ancestral ties through the adaptive re-use of public space, art and infrastructure. Participants will engage directly with the Atlantic Ocean watershed by temporarily becoming part of a liquid antenna created with water from the Concordia University campus. This antenna will be used to process local FM radio signals in real-time through customized software-defined radio programs, and will guide short solo and collaborative improvisatory acts of ancestral imagination and recuperation. No previous experience of any kind is required. The full manual and necessary code for Community Portal can be viewed, downloaded, executed and forked at anytime at: https://codeberg.org/Diaconfn/community-portal 

Keywords: Ancestral Imagination, Recuperation, Decoloniality, Affective Media Technologies, Urban Computing