“Regeneration can only begin when we understand the life and connections of our own place.”
—Damon Gameau
Throughout this first year of co-creating how we move our neighbourhood into the safe and just space of the doughnut, we continue to learn about the practices that help us to bring the ideas to life together in our places.
The doughnut consists of two concentric rings: a social foundation, to ensure that no one is left falling short on life’s essentials, and an ecological ceiling, to ensure that humanity does not collectively overshoot the planetary boundaries that protect Earth's life-supporting systems. Between these two sets of boundaries lies a doughnut-shaped space that is both ****ecologically safe and socially just: a space in which we can all thrive.
“Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses – especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
In this third co-creation week, we are hoping to explore a number of key enquiries questions and begin our neighbourhood fieldwork together:
Janine Benyus talks about the power of learning from what nature teaches can teach us in problem solving, so:
How might we unleash the intergenerational, creative, research and sense-making capacities of our local neighbourhood to understand what our local wildlands can teach us, where we are thriving, and where we are breaching the boundaries?
How can all species, human and more than human, thrive in the neighbourhood?
*“Science can be a way of forming intimacy and respect with other species that is rivalled ***only by the observations of traditional knowledge holders.”
—Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
