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 […]
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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 […]
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Project 2 – Journals
Feb 3rd 2021 – Memorial South Park My project 2 started with me going to the neighborhood park. Now that I was away from Vine street, I wanted to explore the new “green” area close to me. I was alone and had about 20 minutes to spend there. I tried to observe, listen and pay […]
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Vine St. 350m
New semester, new town, new home. This semester started while I was in my mandatory BC quarantine in a hotel. I moved twice before settling down in my current home. After finally being able to go outside, as I had predicted, I was mesmerized by the abundance of greenery and nature that Vancouver offers. For […]
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Talking without words
After Action 10, I was left with all of these papers. I was thinking: now what? What do you want to do with them? Just putting them away didn’t feel right. Then the idea of turning them into a notebook came into my mind. I had zero knowledge about bookbinding, so I had to watch […]
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Flowers and beyond
This action started with a flower bouquet that I had gotten a few weeks ago. As a plant/flower lover, having flowers has been always a blessing and a curse. I obviously enjoy their lively presence in my space, but when they dry out I feel like they’ve gone to waste in a way. This time, […]
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Shifting Realities
In Action 8, I was exploring a nonhuman-centered perspective and played around with the assumption that we are in power. By the end of it, I had a vision in my head. But I only could visualize it in a 3d software. (not so much of a low-fidelity action!) I initially wanted to create some […]
After my last action, I watched the documentary David Attenborough: a life on our planet, because I had to. (**Personal obligation**) At the beginning of quarantine, I had watched the series Our Planet (Netflix) which was also narrated by David Attenborough (what a lovely man) and it moved me a lot. It was the time […]
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Nature’s ministry of defense
For the weekend, we decided to go to my grandpa’s garden which is about 2.5 hours away from my home in Tehran. I really needed a break from my screen and digital life so I decided to do my action there. My grandpa’s garden (aka Kalfoor) has many apple trees, berries, and plums, all of […]