This workshop open to all empowers you to better understand climate change impacts and choose your own future in our uncertain world. We will let you know when the next session led by Loes Damhof and Laureline Simon will be organized!
The United Nations Development Programme is currently forming a ‘Conscious Food Systems Alliance”. One Resilient Earth was invited to take part, co-design and help facilitate this participatory process. More to come!
Rocks are my main staple in my work and for me they contain so many possibilities. You never really know what’s going to be inside when you crack it open – how it will behave, smell, look, and sound. There’s a whole world just waiting to be revealed.
Be part of the change led by Rwamwanja Rural Foundation, in collaboration with the Permaculture Education Institute, Ethos Foundation, Permayouth, Mutera Global Healing and One Resilient Earth, to scale up regeneration efforts for long-term resilience among refugee populations in East Africa.
“A scull (group) of Harps seals swimming on their backs is a common sight where I live, but revealing their patterns and movement from an aerial perspective provides an entirely new level of intrigue and appreciation.” Eldred Allen
The Earth is reflecting back to us that it is reaching certain limits and that the path we have been taking has no future. But I don’t see a kind of breaking point, more of new relationship patterns emerging here and there, connecting and forming new resonance fields. At some point it will have become a totally different system.
“Now that we have this climate crisis on us, there’s so much human and other-than-human loss. So we need new skills and we also have to change our understanding of the power of grief and see it as a politically mobilizing force…”
To me community is our human re-enactment of the forest. Together we intertwine and grow, creating our own micro-climates and connections that can nurture and support each-other as well as create space for a rich ecosystem of others to find their place within.
“My eyes are fixed to the distant point where the mire and the forest meet, I can see the blue silhouette of Oratunturi Fell arching behind them. Crooked birches stand on peat islets running through the mire, I feel the rich smell of the mire in my nose. The sky is wide, and the earth. And the mind.”- Kaija Kiuru
Our arts-science lecture series on “Ecology and the Metamorphosis of Modern Society”, in collaboration with the University of Bonn, was organized virtually from November 2020 to February 2021, so as to shift perspectives on ecology and open new dialogues through art.
Storytelling from the perspective of ice, or a stone, a tree, a branch, a ray of light, for me is such an intense way to build a relationship with the Earth. And language becoming a thing that doesn’t separate us from the natural world, but a way of entangling us in its system of exchanges.
“Caribou ribs separating from the cage is the same sound as tundra cranberries separating from the vine. When you are open to the land, it speaks to you.” says Inuvialuk artist Maureen Gruben, from her hometown of Tuktoyatuk in the Western Arctic.
The emotion driving my work has changed several times throughout my practice, initially, it used to be healing, and even at some point reconciliation. Now I think it’s more a desire to share, to spark curiosity, and start a conversation about the natural world.
STATE Studio collaborated with One Resilient Earth around the thought-provoking work of Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, ‘Designing for the sixth extinction’, as part of Hypertopia, an exhibition and decentralized program held in Berlin, from October to December 2020.
Our pick of the most hopeful, inspiring and engaging documentaries about the central role of food, Indigenous foodways, regenerative agriculture, and… mushrooms in addressing the climate emergency and so many other global crises. Enjoy!
A big part of our struggle seems to be aligned with intentional amnesia, or a community or society choosing not to acknowledge or see even the tribal communities as existing…