This Project started with a question about nature accessibility. Coming from an urban city with limited green space, I saw myself immersed in nature after moving to Vancouver. This made me happy and thankful at first but also slightly uncomfortable, thinking about my past living conditions and how many people throughout the world also may […]
Month: March 2021
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Readings & Notes
Excerpts below are from the book “Losing Eden” by Lucy Jones “Around that time, I read about a depressing concept, coined by the American author, ecologist and lepidopterist Robert Pyle: the ‘extinction of experience’. As fewer children connect with nature, it will follow, he argues, that if they become parents, their children will in turn […]
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Project 2: Conversations
Thinking about different ways of knowing nature and after a discussion in our class, I decided to incorporate others in this simple activity. In my action 1, I had tried “drawing” as an activity to know a natural element. However, drawing is just one of the many ways we can interact with them. I created […]