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Can there be anything more seemingly neutral than a space of habitation, a container for the body? I often give the example of the Amazonian Indigenous maloca (longhouse) versus the archetypical nuclear-family house in suburban America. The maloca can house several dozen people under a single roof, even if the act of habitation obeys certain rules of behavior and spatial distribution. 

As I jokingly say, paraphrasing, "give me a maloca, and I will raise a relational world" (including the integral and interdependent relations between humans and nonhumans); conversely, give me a suburban home, and I will raise a world of decommunalized individuals, separated from the natural world. Design thus inevitably generate humans' (and other Earth beings') structures of possibility.

Every tool or technology inaugurates a set of rituals, ways of doing, and modes of being. It contributes to shaping what it is to be human.
Arturo Escobar - Designs for the Pluriv

#886 - A Well-Being Center
#886 - A Well-Being Center 

E. F. Schumacher said that in order to turn potentiality into reality, the task of education must be first and foremost the transmission of ideas, of values.

⚘ Marie Cirillo, Stories From an Appalachian Community

O’Donohue: I feel like in the book I wrote on beauty, I was trying to say that one of the huge confusions in our times is to mistake glamour for beauty. And we do live in a culture which is very addicted to the image. And I think that there is always an uncanny symmetry between the way you are inward with yourself and the way you are outward. And I feel that there is an evacuation of interiority going on in our times and that we need to draw back inside ourselves and that we’ll find immense resources there.

Tippett: When you say “symmetry,” I don’t think you mean that there’s an equality, but that they are intimately connected and that when we are putting our energy outward, it’s taking something from inside us.

O’Donohue: It’s taking something; exactly. That’s exactly what I mean, that it’s taking something from inside, and we’re secretly debilitating ourselves. And it’s understandable, too, because if you look at the educational system and you look at most of the public fora in our culture, there is very little time or attention given to what you could almost call learning the art of inwardness; or a pedagogy of interiority. That’s why I find the aesthetic things, like poetry, fiction, good film, theater, drama, dance, and music, actually awaken that inside you and remind you that there is a huge interiority within you.

⚘ On Being with Krista Tippett, with John O’Donohue

pedagogy of interiority
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Emissaries guide to worlding - Ian Cheng
Emissaries guide to worlding - Ian Chen

“the true method of knowledge is experiment”
- William Blake

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“What we cannot imagine, cannot come into being.”

bell hooks, 'All About Love'

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.
Olafur Eliasson

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Shannon Mattern 
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