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- | The insights and lessons through this journey go beyond farming. The project started out with specific focus on urban farming and permaculture. Since, the nature of farming and land is highly interconnected, | + | The insights and lessons through this journey go beyond farming. Since, the nature of farming and land is highly interconnected, |
* The first step is to bring out the connection which exists between a fertile soil and healthy crops, healthy animals and healthy human beings. Land must be safeguarded from the operations of finance and our needs have to be more clearly streamlined. A gradual approach for recovering the land is needed and the benefits of this shared with everyone. | * The first step is to bring out the connection which exists between a fertile soil and healthy crops, healthy animals and healthy human beings. Land must be safeguarded from the operations of finance and our needs have to be more clearly streamlined. A gradual approach for recovering the land is needed and the benefits of this shared with everyone. | ||
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* In cultural contexts, links with tradition should involve the use of past processes of change rather than the maintenance of past structures and patterns. We have to constantly reevaluate and revalidate our responses and ideas of ' | * In cultural contexts, links with tradition should involve the use of past processes of change rather than the maintenance of past structures and patterns. We have to constantly reevaluate and revalidate our responses and ideas of ' | ||
- | * Constantly striving to create fertile diverse systems which bring culture and nature together. This could be through technology, media or traditional mediums. An important example is the use of science and technology through ' | + | * Constantly striving to create fertile diverse systems which bring culture and nature together. This could be through technology, media or traditional mediums. An important example is the use of science and technology through ' |
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* Analysing the attributes of community based approaches in countries like India and how can we create such initiatives in western societies. | * Analysing the attributes of community based approaches in countries like India and how can we create such initiatives in western societies. | ||
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- | * Creating tangible manifestations of human plant interaction to nudge it out of the speculative zone. How would a new relevant design practice emerge through observation of and cooperation with natural systems? | ||
* Rethinking our relationship with other life forms in an infinitely interconnected atmosphere. | * Rethinking our relationship with other life forms in an infinitely interconnected atmosphere. | ||
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* Finding appropriate ways and methods to bring ' | * Finding appropriate ways and methods to bring ' | ||
- | * Creating an **International Platform for Growth and Resilience**, | + | * Creating an **International Platform for Growth and Resilience**, |
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+ | * Creating tangible manifestations of human plant interaction to nudge it out of the speculative zone. How would a new relevant design practice emerge through observation of and cooperation with natural systems? The researcher envisions the emergence of a new field of research which merges aspects of urban ecology, design ethnography, | ||
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+ | * Ultimately thinking of ways in which we can create conditions that make independent ingeniuos ideas inevitable. | ||
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