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- | ====== Permaculture | + | ===== Permaculture ===== |
- | //Book link:// | + | These notes form a part of [[xmedk workshop|x-med-k]]. [[Media Ecologies workshop]] |
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- | * The link between forest/ | + | |
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- | * Time and space continuum( numbers , age )the sense of ‘’loss’’ of self in sexual congress, | + | |
- | * Urban forests… urban jungle, | + | |
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- | * 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 | + | |
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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 | + | |
- | 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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- | 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... | + | |
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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 the idea of death... Mrityunjay... | + | |
- | 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, | + | |
+ | 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 ' | ||
+ | Complete details of the research can be found at the following link. | ||
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