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===== Permaculture ===== | ===== Permaculture ===== | ||
- | The Book | + | These notes form a part of [[xmedk workshop|x-med-k]]. [[Media Ecologies workshop]] |
- | * http://www.holmgren.com.au/ | + | |
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- | An imaginative text based on contemporary travel through | + | ’PERMACULTURE’ was originally coined in the mid seventies |
- | ==== Highlights ==== | + | A research on this topic is currently underway at FoAM. A brief presentation and discussion of the theme was shared at the x-med-k- Media Ecologies workshop in St. Erme, France. In the first half a film by Bill Mollison on // |
+ | * How can we make ethical thinking part of the ongoing design education? Why is there strong resistance to the word, ' | ||
+ | * Permaculture looks at a graceful response towards a 'slow decline' | ||
+ | * An important aspect was that of information ' | ||
+ | * Another issue was that of a gradual realisation of the importance and transformation from an outlook and approach based on ' | ||
- | * The link between forest/ | + | Complete details |
- | * Leper colony, Santhal tribal woman | + | http://libarynth.org/research_report_sanjeev-shankar |
- | * Time and space continuum( numbers , age )the sense of ‘’loss’’ of self in sexual congress, | + | |
- | * Urban forests… urban jungle, | + | |
- | * A mental forest | + | |
- | * Can urban life and wilderness co-exist | + | |
- | * Is the loss of wild an indispensable cost of development, | + | |
- | * Soil as a unifying factor, just as the sky | + | |
- | * Menstrual cycles and primitive tribal woman | + | |
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- | The eastward expansion of the city is causing the fast transformation of the semi rural and rural landscape into highly urban settlements in the eastern fringe of Calcutta. Kalikapur, a densely populated locality inhabited mostly by the people from poorer economic strata, a unique ecosystem with very rich mosaic of original vegetation, with groves of indigenous trees and bushes, swamps with reeds, and number of water bodies, has strangely survived the onslaught and now remains as a refuge threatened by the fast approaching urban expansion. A considerable number of Kalikapur residents have significant dependence on the local wilderness for their dietary supplements, | + | |
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- | A small group comprises of knowledgeable kids from Kalikapur, and kids from the adjacent urban locality, who have operational computer knowledge, would be formed. Kalikapur kids will work as field guides and the urban ones will take charge of the documentation (paper, photographs, | + | |
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- | ====Visit to Chandani-Chowk==== | + | |
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- | moonlight junction.... one of the most dense places on the planet... absolute and complete sense of chaos... people shouting, screaming and jostling ... every third step a group of people is eating ... visit to the 15th century haveli... peepal tree... religious significance... the tree vs the built form... growing forms vs static rigid forms... why can't our buildings... or built habitats grow... and cooperate with the trees they stand next to ... why can't the built mass be built with materials and systems which when fed with water, electricity, | + | |
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- | i walk down the street to see more informal courtyards and smaller, personal touches of green... in front of the temple... the small jamun tree in the court yard... tulsi and kadi patta... gainda flowers... the lady who loves her money plants so much that her daughter in law has also had to fall in love with them and is seeing them as a source of joy, peace, fortune, health ... | + | |
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- | there is just too much fiesty talk and discourse all around... people are brain numb and driven into giving up their interests... awareness is at its bottom most level... it is like a crowd of cows being fed heavily before being butchered... chipko movement... blank noise... silence... tree and plants are mute and remain so... french animation where humans and their greed makes them pigs eventually resulting in their death... not death... death is beautiful... it is immortal since nothing changes once you reach it ... you don't get old, you do not change.... through death one goes beyond | + | |
- | visit to the jain temple... beautiful ambience... one thing which remains in my mind was a statement from the priest ... '' | + | |
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- | today i see trees only in areas where they have been given explicit permission to exist... schools, institutions, | + | |
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- | ====== EUROPE :: ASIA/India ====== | + | |
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- | * There seem to be numerous contextual divides between European and Asian backdrops and settings :soil conditions, native plants, traditional knowledge, type of relationship, | + | |
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- | * At one level, we have approaches and techniques like seedballing // moss graffiti // psychogeography which happens in a bottom up way ... often fragmented till it reaches a tipping point !! This is in my opinion is a great way to approach numerous cities in Europe where the awareness is high and '' | + | |
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- | * Agriculture in urban India is a means of sustenance and earning money... done by the poor/ | + | |
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- | * We have an opportunity here... to design '' | + | |
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- | http://www.worldometers.info/ | + | |
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- | If you see the link above, one sees the shocking numbers we are against_ 17 million humans born every year and if you scroll down you will see the rapid and frenetic pace at which forests are being depleted and the top soil eroded. | + | |
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- | We need to strike at the heart of this problem. To have ubiquitous planting i propose we create a series of green tiles which can be used in a modular manner in the construction and automobile industry. _ **a green brick**_ a brick which breathes and lives like a plant_ you could call it a plant tile too... but a properly designed intelligent green organic modular brick which can have a range of plants/ | + | |
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- | A modification of this brick could go on and be integrated with the design/ | + | |
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- | All this to say that, we will not step back, or we just can not cut back on the scale and pace of growth in urban realms but we can feed life and fertility into that growth and make it a green growth | + | |
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- | --[[sanjeev | + |