Earthas a paradigm for architecture questions languages of design drawing/thinking.Studying Odawa pastures’ potential to challenge national building codes and worldviews revealed the return of repressed design processes made of metaphysical, cosmological, and socio-political strings woven from rhythm and movement in hybrid realities. A proposal to unify agriculture/architecture policy, pedagogy, and practice through product/labour creation manifests in liminal negotiations within residential building envelopes surrounding the Tunney’s Pasture post-war government campus.
Speculative fabulation/feminism and radical Indigenismsupport intersectional justice by working with architectural methodologies founded on nondualism.Advocacy for ancestral practices, neo-materialism, Place-Thought, and care-workexpands ontologies centered on unity to unsettle Archi-tecture’s dualisms. Adopting a transcendent viewpoint towards polarities dissolves the boundaries of Earth/Architecture across time, scale, space, and the pluriverse. Flowing between ways of knowing/being presents growing(++), harvesting(-+), living(- -), and rooting(+-)into geo-cycles througharchetypal mythologies of place, culture, bodies, and folds.
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Glossary
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Architect =
Nature = good natured
Earth = Earth, dirt, land ksááhkoni personified ksaahkommna
Home = a day midway between summer solstice + winter solstice aahkiáapiksistsikoni
Place-Thought
An Indigenous philosophy:
the earth is alive and thinking
humans and non-humans
derive agency from the land
Vanessa Watts. (2013). Indigenous Place-Thought & Agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European World Tour!). Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education + Society, Vol 2. No 1, 21.
EMBODIED ENERGY = 1/3 of global carbon emissions, energy consumption + waste1ORa soul
UN: material extraction causes 90% of global biodiversity loss, 90% of global water stress and 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions 2