Notes from Architectures of Planetary Well-being Symposium 2.0
Material Cultures
Resolve Collective
Worofila
Anupama Kundoo
Takeaways/Other thoughts
Material Cultures
https://materialcultures.org/
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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?
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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
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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
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Developing new skills, running workshops to teach new skills, education, and training to transform knowledge cultures
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Skilled labourers, network of highly skilled people working with natural materials

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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
Resolve Collective
https://www.resolvecollective.com/
- Using the site as a resource
- Working with local community
- Design constraints of using materials within a 1 mile radius
- Emotional mapping through the subjectivity of others
- The city in people’s eyes
- ex: bodega or corner shop as sites of culture
- Community Design x Materials
- Works with young people - capacity building with young people
- Loss and natural identities in urban spaces
- We in the Global North have time, stolen time.. how do we redistribute time? Who do we tend to disempower with that redistribution act?
Worofila
https://worofila.com/en/home/