Raw Food for Thought

The Raw Food for Thought Series transcribes spontaneous confessions and bold conversations on how people relate to our changing world and contribute to creating it everyday. Words from anyone are in the raw, to open new lines of thinking and celebrate all that is.

Art as a healer

Dom-an reflects on how she has nurtured resilience and regeneration through combining the healing powers of music and community. Dom-an belongs to the Kankanaey Indigenous peoples living west of the Chico River in Sagada, Mountain Province Cordillera, Philippines.

Refusal to Heal

“Refusal to Heal aims to reveal the parts of the human psyche that want nothing to do with healing back into society or a life that will not change. […] Resigned to the shadow, these parts of us seek relationality, unconditional being, truth, and a conversation no one dares to have.” Rūta Žemčugovaitė

Wandering Lines

“I feel that my ability to cope with the modern world is slowly disintegrating. I feel a thinning veil between me and the reality of the world: the multi-crisis we are facing, the daily encounters with human and non-human suffering, dying ecosystems, and disappearing species.” Rūta Žemčugovaitė

Art as a catalyst for care

Emily Joy is a socially and environmentally engaged artist, participating in the Re-storying Landscapes in a Changing Climate project. She discusses her recent community art projects, and explores how emotions of loss and grief expresssed in community can serve as a catalyst for care in a time of climate crisis.

Cooking as Love and Life

Cooking for me became a way to connect to happiness and to life – my first conscious exercise. You have to eat to be alive, and if you cook, you can give yourself the things you and other people love. Being very connected to the core of life is what cooking and eating means for me.

How can we stop colonizing the future?

In India, there is so much fantastic imagination about times that are not present times, that are not necessarily past times either, but almost parallel time periods. Now in my expanded understanding of what futures thinking is about, I see all of it as future fiction, if not science fiction…

Shall we fall in love with nature virtually?

Following Satish Kumar, personal transformation comes from the heart and not the mind. How could anyone shift from a consumerist mindset to a conservation mindset without falling in love with nature and recognizing oneself in nature? In other words, having a deep transformative experience is necessary for our hearts to open up…