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==== Memory Code ====

A term coined by Lynne Kelley. Ways of encoding environmental, ethological and cultural knowledge directly into the environment (or objects)

==== Hiking with Monsters ====
Notes an a student program run by Theun.

== Session1 Fieldwork ==
  * Intro fieldwork practice
  * Assignment: what place would you like to explore, how would you do it?
  * Assignment 4th year: How do you share that exploration with others?

== Session2 What lives here now. ==
  * Intro Nederlands landscape.
  * Set up whatsapp (or otherwise)
  * Field assignment: find a creature that interests you, how would you design a way to communicatie with it? Give it a name that is based on how you communicate with it.
  * Research assignment: What lived in your area before? What do you think is missing now? What qualities are missing?


== Session3 Regeneration ==
  * Regenerative practices
  * What would your area need? How do you create habitat?
  * Assignment: what natural cycles are missing, disrupted? How to reconnect. (Any size, tiny ant tunnel)
  * Assignment 4th year: How can local people become active participants in that reconnection?

== Session4 Rewilding ==
  * What would your area need? Which organisms can regenerate it?
  * (Coral, trees, wolves they all create opportunities for biodiversity to boom)
  * Assignment: find three spots in your area where you see potential for rewilding.
  * (What timescale do you design for?)

== Session5 Team work ==
  * Based on previous lesson, work in groups on one organism. Who are the experts?
  * assignment: Design a research team: what kinds of expertise are needed? (What is in it for them?)
  * assignment 4th year: Design a research week. Location. Team. Question.
  * (Don’t design the team sitting in your classroom. Do it on location!)

== Session6 Animals as guides ==
  * What qualities do animals need to thrive? (Elephants memory, bioindicators, animals/plants as messengers)
  * Ecologist can see this area needs… wolves. (Trophic cascades)
  * Assignment: (I give 5 animals and plants) in groups: what are the qualities of those animals?
  * Assignment after class: translate those qualities into a human being a character.
  * (In what ways does that help to think about the role of animals, in what ways does it hinder?)

== Session7 ==
  * Qualities of animals and plants in the long now. 
  * Australia and aboriginals. Tending the wild.
  * Assignment: memory walk

== Session8 ==
  * Memory walk field test together.
  * Assignment: design a multi generational knowledge system. How can our understanding and experience of the environment be shared across time?
  * (Floppy disc vs. songline)

== Session10 ==
  * Discuss the multigenerational knowledge systems.