Prologue: What Makes Regenerative Work Last

In this short prologue for Season 2 of Regenerative Artivism, I introduce the guiding question for Season 2: what makes regenerative artivism last. Staying in the Greater China region, the season shifts from landscapes of repair to the infrastructures that make care and creativity durable over time.Infrastructures here does not mean only highways and dams. It means enabling conditions: residencies that treat place as more than a backdrop, neighborhood apartments that become archives and mutual-aid stations, disability-led performance platforms where access becomes part of artistic form, museums that operate like small commons, community theater that turns listening into social ecology, and heritage networks that try to protect local life as development and tourism push in.How to listen this season: three lensesMaterial infrastructure: where the work happens, who funds and maintains it, and what limits shape itSocial infrastructure: trust, routines, accountability, conflict, burnout, and the labor of careEpistemic infrastructure: archives, publications, protocols, and teaching methods that keep minor histories from being erasedSeason 2 episode guideEpisode 1: Xiao Lihong, Bamboo Curtain Studio (near Taipei) — building a residency as a living ecological institutionEpisode 2: Chen Yun, Dinghaiqiao Mutual-Aid Society (Shanghai) — staying with neighbors amid demolition and redevelopmentEpisode 3: Ge Huichao (Beijing) — disability arts and access as creative grammarEpisode 4: Liu Yang (Guangzhou) — the museum as neighborhood commons at the scale of a tiny roomEpisode 5: Debbie Tai, Zero Distance Cooperative (Macau) — playback theater as social repair and ecological careEpisode 6: Zheng Dazhen (Quanzhou) — heritage as a living commons, and the risks of branding and displacementKeywordssocially engaged art; ecological art; disability arts; mutual aid; urban commons; heritage and tourism; Greater China; Taiwan; Shanghai; Beijing; Guangzhou; Macau; QuanzhouMy academic website: http://csun.academia.edu/MeiqinWang