Creating a practice that:
- Centers the land as the main protagonist
- Reintegrating architecture and agriculture
- explores natural materials x construction technology
- Decarbonised construction industry:
- framework of resource extraction without continuous harm, environment & social impact
- Resilient tree scales with regenerative land use practice
- Work to build capacity in people too
- Developing new skills, running workshops to teach new skills how to build with natural materials
- Working towards more local
- More political power and economic power within bioregions
- Utilising local biodiversity
- Shifting from a mosaic alternative to a monoculture = No resilience in the face of climate
- To release from the extractive → transforming our relationship to land
- what does the land need?
- How do we create around the needs of soil vs. needs on industry?
- how do we consider landscape legacies? what the land will become afterwards?
- framework of resource extraction without continuous harm, environment & social impact
Without land, there is no self-sufficiency
- There is a lack of land ownership for the local people, thus 50% of the land is then exported
Exploring new alternatives: For example, hemp crops is effective at carbon sequestering (it absorbs CO2 while it grows, making it a carbon-negative crop)
- Hemp returns to the soil and earth, as compost
Developing new skills, running workshops to teach new skills, education, and training to transform knowledge cultures
Skilled labourers, network of highly skilled people working with natural materials
Agroecology
- Agroecology is sustainable farming that works with nature. Ecology is the study of relationships between plants, animals, people, and their environment - and the balance between these relationships. Agroecology is the application of ecological concepts and principals in farming. (Source)
- About re-imagining a reparative relationship with the land
- Making the land a stakeholder