Category: nature
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Seeing like a Stoat
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A list of links between various recent things which expand our sense in ways that help us see the world from perspectives.
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Making green spaces visible for communities
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Today I quickly put together a timelapse video using Google Earth Pro, a free-to-download piece of software from Google. This was for our local nature group, to visualise not just the housing development that has happened around here, but also to what has actually happened to some of the farmland that has been rewilding over…
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Towards a regenerative design toolkit
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I have been working on a side project in the moments where I get the chance; a regenerative design toolkit called Where the light gets in. It’s a corruption of the Leonard Cohen lyric “There are cracks in everything, that’s how the light gets in”. I am less interested in the how, and more interested…
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How to rewild a new garden
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You may be thinking you’ve stumbled into the wrong blog. And I can understand why. Smithery is a strategic design practice, which admittedly encompasses many things. But never gardens. What follows, however, is a documentation of our personal experience of a nature-based design intervention, and then some broader systemic thoughts on what might have worked…