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"The person figured here is not an autonomous, rational actor but an unfolding, shifting biography of culturally and materially specific experiences, relations, and possibilities inflected by each next encounter (...) in uniquely particular ways." (Lucy Suchman, Human-machine reconfigurations: plans and situated actions, 2009, 281)

Mar 24, 2022

March

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  "The cunning of uncertainty suspends routine. (…) It prepares one for surprises that come with increasing order of complexity in whi...
Mar 22, 2022

March

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"If the past has any significance for the present, here is a strong reminder that technology alone is never sufficient to garantee the ...
Mar 20, 2022

March

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"Creativity, while it needs certain conditions to flourish, refuses to become subject to prediction. The creative process moves from d...
Mar 12, 2022

March

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  "Turning points in a life that seemed set on a predictable path suddendly emerge. (...) a reality check sets in. Once past certaintie...

March

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Call it what you will - futures, utopias, dreams - but remeber they " are imperfect, they are imaginative, they are joyful and wild, th...
Feb 28, 2022

Kindness by default

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As earthling, living in Portugal, I can´t imagine what Ukraine beings are going through in these hours, or what it must feel for Russian bei...
Feb 20, 2022

February

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"(...) I can think of no better form of personal involvement than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden (...) organically...

February

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"A renewable power system is not dependent on foreign energy imports nor vulnerable to fuel price manipulations – which are the main wo...

February

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Feb 5, 2022

February

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"The combination between biometric data and mass surveillance results in an unlawful practice that unfairly treats everyone like a susp...
Feb 4, 2022

February

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  "Emerging trends in adaptation place an emphasis on the need for more transformational changes, which has a distinct logic that diffe...
Jan 20, 2022

Mycorrhizal network

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"Mycorrhizal networks (also known as common mycorrhizal networks or CMN) are underground hyphal networks created by mycorrhizal fungi t...
Jan 15, 2022

January

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"[A]ll this was an ongoing labor of love. The sustainability of nature (...) never just falls into place; it must be brought out throug...
Jan 14, 2022

January

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"I comb through the mess of existing worlds-in-the-making, looking for treasures - each distinctive and unlikely to be found again....
Jan 7, 2022

Role of paper in disruptions

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After being hacked and down for 3 days, the newspaper " Expresso volta a ser feito e desenhado à mão. Como no primeiro dia. " by E...
Jan 1, 2022

Sintra

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).
Dec 31, 2021

Assemblages

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  «Assemblages are open-ended gatherings. They allow us to ask about communal effects without assuming them. They show us potential historie...

December

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"Humans, pines, and fungi make living arrangements simultaneously for themselves and for others: multispecies worlds."  Anna Lowen...
Dec 30, 2021

December

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"Patterns of unintentional coordination develop in assemblages. To notice such patterns means watching the interplay of temporal rhythm...
Dec 25, 2021

December

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).
Dec 21, 2021

December

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"Don't let the beauty of life escape you." Let Nature be " t he temple that is. Marvel at the fact that any of this exist...
Dec 18, 2021

December

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Phenology : "the study of periodic events in biological life cycles and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations...
Dec 8, 2021

December

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“Failure is instrumental in success. We need to fail to learn. It’s only through exploring and figuring out the territory, that the fog sta...
Dec 5, 2021

December

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"Make what you can of what you have been given. Live what can be lived. That's what excellence is." Ryan Holiday (2019) Stilln...
Nov 26, 2021

November

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"Think as carefully about what information you feed your mind as you do about the food you feed your body." Rutger Bregman (2021)....
Nov 25, 2021

Mobilities

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  Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
Nov 23, 2021

Horizon

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"The less energy we waste regretting the past and worrying about the future, the more energy we will have for what's in front of us...
Nov 22, 2021

November

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  "We use brut force reactions to have elements to bond or break apart. Life uses a small subset of the Periodic Table - the safe eleme...
Nov 20, 2021

November

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Nov 17, 2021

November

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
Nov 14, 2021

November

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  « Data protection in EU: Comparative Study of National Reports » "a document aimed to produce a panoramic vision of the legal and eth...
Nov 10, 2021

Success

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"The Natural World definition of success is not keeping offspring alive in a generation. Success is keeping offspring alive for 10 000 ...
Nov 6, 2021

November

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"Fighting to save our life supporting systems isn't radical at all. Believing that civilization as we know it can survive a 2.7 deg...
Nov 1, 2021

November

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"Will the Anthropocene then name a geological epoch when no humans will be around to think it?" T. J. Demos (2016). Chapter VII - ...
Oct 23, 2021

framing Nature

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"If life as we know it is at stake (...) the best approach is to ecologize the economy instead of economizing the environment." We...

October

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"Trees have many values – and their highest value is not as firewood! Trees provide many tangible benefits in terms of shelter, shade, ...
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