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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)

Apr 9, 2023

April

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"(...) black locust produces a fruity and fragrant honey, and its blossoms are used for cooking." More about this tree in Sitzia,...

April

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Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
Mar 20, 2023

March

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"Depth We must be still  Heart breaks  Soul Fire  Flood lines  Earthquakes  Depth over distance  Deep roots  And charred ashes  Hard...
Mar 18, 2023

March

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"The word integrity means moral consistency and commitment, but it also means something whole and unbroken, uninjured, and it's a ...
Mar 15, 2023

March

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"A garden is what you want (and can manage and afford), and what you want is who you are, and who you are is always a political and cul...
Feb 25, 2023

February

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"The order that matters most is not spacial but temporal. Sometimes pictures convey this, but the habit of seeing in pictures encourage...
Jan 20, 2023

January

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[MP] What is your view about the myth of eternal growth? [ChatGPT] As a machine learning model, I don't have personal views or opinions....
Jan 15, 2023

January

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"You are beautiful not because you are better than others, but because there is only you who can smile like that." Haemin Sunim (2...
Dec 21, 2022

December

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"Only by altering our habits, and by endeavouring to live less exploitatively, can we prevent the changes to the environment from beco...

December

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" As we notice more and more in the present moment, we come to a deeper realization that a silent observer is within us. In the primord...
Dec 12, 2022

December

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"Extinction bursts through that web, breaking connections and threatening its integrity. Sever one strand, and it wavers, reshapes, but...
Dec 11, 2022

December

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And this light  Still won't shine bright  But there'll be enough to see right  A thought that's handed down  Old torn and frayed...

December

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"An unplanned exercise in cooperation is taking place, with animal and plant, fungus and microbe, competing and collaborating in comple...

December

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Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
Nov 25, 2022

November

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"Long distance dispersal may be rare, but in a world where enough attempts occur, only one attempt needs to succeed. What is remarkable...
Nov 22, 2022

November

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"Even in the stormiest sea, there is a calm that comes with staying true to your convictions." Harvard Business Review (2022). Ene...
Oct 28, 2022

October

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

October

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"Weaving is a transformative process with many functions. It involves clearing thought, and organizing personal energy and emotion. A h...
Oct 13, 2022

Foodscapes

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"The scale of the problem is so vast, complex and interconnected that inertia has plagued the issue. But, a foodscape-scale approach to...
Oct 10, 2022

October

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"The earth system reacts henceforth to your action in such a way that you no longer have a stable and indiferent framework in which to ...
Oct 5, 2022

September

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"Cloth can come from plants (cotton, linen), animals (sheep, silkworm), and, since the nineteenth century, from synthetic material and ...
Oct 4, 2022

October

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"(...) it's not really about technology, but instead more about the quality of your life. (...) you'll come to realize that dig...
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 ).
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