“Merely assuming that information and communication technology (ICT) would foster the spread of democracy was clearly a failed strategy. (…)...

«A shift towards an economy of care, craft and creativity (...) is not just about the quality of public services or the possibility of creat...

"(...) bear in mind that garden design as it is studied by the one nation which really understands it - the Japanese - takes many years...

“ The will to touch reality ” and all the “ beings within it was as simple as the urge to breathe, and breathe together ”. The Tree was righ...

A new cycle begins. “ (…) it’s about as full circle as it gets. (…) One day at a time, and suddenly you realize life is brighter, life is li...

“(…) my story bleeds through from my cover into the real world, a message from a parallel universe revealed through graphic design and visua...

" Because it is always tempting to over emphasize autonomy and independence, these helpless creatures are here to remind us that no one...

I've been discovering more affordances for the materials that nature (and people) offer me. At this time of the year there is an abundan...

« Biodiversity is the driver of the farm. If I'm asked "What do you grow?", I say "Biodiversity". The vegetables are...

"When you tape into the arts to foster a meditative state, the places in your brain responsible for judgment and personal criticism are...

"When you can see yourself from outside, you contemplate existence with more humility and perceptiveness than when (...) you imagined y...

"There are certain fundamental rules that all ecosystems must follow. Energy, usually harnessed in from sunlight or, rarely, from the b...

"Cloth can come from plants (cotton, linen), animals (sheep, silkworm), and, since the nineteenth century, from synthetic material and ...

"Because digital minimalists spend so much less time connected than their peers, its easy to think of their lifestyles as extreme, but ...

"Whereas labour involves care and sustenance, work is the domain of creation and creativity. It calls on craft and skill and vision. It...

" Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, ...

"Uma imagem, pintada, esculpida, fotografada, construída e emoldurada, é igualmente um palco, o local para uma encenação. O que o artis...

"The spaces in which we can enjoy privacy have shrunk. We need consciously to create privacy zones in order to claw back some areas in ...

"Some big tech became big by plundering our data without asking for permission (…) we were told that it was necessary for our gadgets ...

"The history of rights is, to a large extent, the history of progressively recognizing that human beings are not resources to exploit,...