Sep 23, 2022

September

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"Because digital minimalists spend so much less time connected than their peers, its easy to think of their lifestyles as extreme, but ...
Aug 29, 2022

August

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“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it, and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You’re just talking.” Wangari Maathai....
Jul 18, 2022

The last layer

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

July

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"Beyond our material limits (...) lies another world. A place worth visiting. An investment worth making. A destination worth reaching....
Jul 15, 2022

A Day Later set

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Jorge Queiroz (2020). A Day Later 1, 2, 3, 4 e 5 (not in this order). Exposição « to go to », Calouste Gulbenkian. 
Jul 14, 2022

June

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Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use it if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

February

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"Love appears as the most unlikely pinnacle in an entire universe of improbability. It's the most spectacular victory in our ongoin...

July

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" 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, ...
Jun 21, 2022

June

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"Craft makes us human, and in doing so, it can provide deep satisfactions that are hard to replicate in other (dare I say) less   hands...
Jun 15, 2022

June

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"What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself."   Dreams   by Nuag...

June

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"From the point of view of the network, mycelium is a single interconnected entity. From the point of view of a hyphal tip, mycelium is...
May 27, 2022

May

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"Uma imagem, pintada, esculpida, fotografada, construída e emoldurada, é igualmente um palco, o local para uma encenação. O que o artis...
May 26, 2022

May

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Photo by Monica Pinheiro (STP20220526). License CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
May 25, 2022

May

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Photo by Monica Pinheiro (STP20220525). License CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
May 24, 2022

May

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Photo by Monica Pinheiro (STP20220524). License CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
May 22, 2022

May

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"Love offers perhaps the highest example of human flourishing. An ultimate expression of human prosperity." Tim Jackson (2021). Po...
May 21, 2022

May

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Photo by Monica Pinheiro (STP20220521). License CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
May 3, 2022

May

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Photo taken May 2, 2022, by Monica Pinheiro. You are free to use it if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
Apr 18, 2022

April

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Dangerous developments that seem interesting in 2007 described in a paper by Wild A. Crabtree et al (2006) «Supporting Ethnographic Studie...
Apr 10, 2022

April

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"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 ...
Apr 9, 2022

April

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

April

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"The history of rights is, to a large extent, the history of progressively recognizing that human beings are not resources to exploit,...
Apr 1, 2022

April

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"Ser brava é a gente firmar-se naquilo que está a fazer, no que está a dizer e naquilo que quer ser." Written on the wall of « As ...
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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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
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...