Resources for Assignment #1: Feeding the Body,...
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WHERE TO GET SUPPLIES for this assignment:
- U District Farmers Market Links to an external site. (Saturdays 9am-2pm) or any neighborhood farmers markets and farm stands near you
- Links to an external site.Beacon Food Forest Links to an external site.
- UW Center for Urban Horticulture, the UW Farm, UW Greenhouses and Medicinal Herb Garden Links to an external site.
- Grocery stores focused on specific ethnic or regional foodways often have plant, animal, or fungi ingredients which are less processed than those in mainstream grocery stores. Many neighborhoods around the city have their own focuses of particular types of stores -- for example, the International District has a wide range of stores which cater to cultural traditions from around the Pacific Rim, and Rainier Valley has a variety of both South Asian and Latin American focused grocery stores. Check around, you may be surprised by the materials you find for this first project, but also the materials you learn about for future projects in this exploration.
- Any ordinary grocery store, fruit stand or supermarket that you regularly use
Readings and further research for this module:
1. Margaret Atwood on Speculative Fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sETy7giC4AE
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2. Donna Haraway Staying with the Trouble - Introduction
Haraway_Staying_with-the_trouble_Intro.pdf Download Haraway_Staying_with-the_trouble_Intro.pdf
About Donna Haraway
Donna J. Haraway is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies Links to an external site.. She has also contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory Links to an external site., and is a leading scholar in contemporary ecofeminism Links to an external site.. Her work criticizes anthropocentrism Links to an external site., emphasizes the self-organizing powers of nonhuman processes, and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway Links to an external site.
Lecture by Haraway at the San Francisco Art Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYA7sMQaBQ&t=5504s
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3. Arturo Escobar Pluriversal Politics
Escobar_PluriversalPolitics.pdf Download Escobar_PluriversalPolitics.pdf
About Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar (born November 20, 1951) is a Colombian-American Links to an external site. anthropologist Links to an external site. and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Links to an external site. at Chapel Hill Links to an external site., USA. His academic research interests include political ecology Links to an external site., anthropology of development Links to an external site., social movements Links to an external site., anti-globalization movements Links to an external site., political ontology Links to an external site.,[2] Links to an external site. and postdevelopment theory Links to an external site..[3] Links to an external site.
Escobar is a major figure in the post-development academic discourse and has been described as a "post-development thinker to be reckoned with".[4] Links to an external site. He has authored influential books criticizing development practices championed by western industrialized societies and exploring possibilities for alternative visions of development, including Encountering Development (1995) and Designs for the Pluriverse Links to an external site. (2018). Escobar's approach to anthropology is largely informed by the poststructuralist Links to an external site. and postcolonialist Links to an external site. traditions. He is critical of international development, Links to an external site. which in his eyes became a mechanism of control comparable to colonialism Links to an external site. or "cultural imperialism Links to an external site. that poor countries had little means of declining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist) Links to an external site.
Discussion with Escobar
Video by The Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC), The Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-o0merYDLA
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On Regenerative Agriculture
Common Ground documentary (2023) - Official Trailer
From the filmmakers of ‘Kiss the Ground’ (Netflix) comes the follow-up documentary ‘Common Ground,’ recipient of the Tribeca Film Festival 2023 Human/Nature Award. Coming to select theaters in the US starting September 27th. https://commongroundfilm.org Links to an external site.
Sobering yet hopeful, ‘Common Ground’ exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health, by sharing stories of destruction and healing across the United States and beyond, and how regenerative agriculture and soil health plays a vitally important role in changing these systems for the better. At it's root, it explores how people from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different places share one thing in common – the very soil beneath their feet. The film is directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, it features celebrity actors, activists and philanthropists Rosario Dawson, Laura Dern, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Jason Momoa, and Ian Somerhalder, along with interviews with Gabe Brown, Jonathan Lundgren Ph.D, Mark Hyman M.D., Leah Penniman, Ray Archuleta, Toby Kiers, Ph.D, Allejandro Carillo, Carey Gillam, Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott, Kara Boyd, Robyn O'Brien, Rick Clark, and many other farmers, ranchers, scientists, educators, allies and beyond.
Other stuff of interest (for fun):
Biotechnology in Building Material https://parametric-architecture.com/how-biotechnology-in-architecture-is-bringing-buildings-to-life/ Links to an external site.
Bamboo pavilion, Shanghai, China https://architizer.com/projects/bamboo-pavilion-4 Links to an external site.
Agnes Denes: Wheatfield http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/works7.html Links to an external site.
Michael Rakowitz uses everyday objects https://art21.org/read/in-the-studio-michael-rakowitz Links to an external site.
Sew Liberated The Mindful Wardrobe Project https://sewliberated.com/the-mindful-wardrobe-project Links to an external site.
Care Pavilion at the London Design Biennale https://londondesignbiennale.com/pavilions/2023/care-pavilion Links to an external site.
Guest Artist Emily Endo http://www.emilyendo.com Links to an external site.
Guest Artist Lily Hope https://www.lilyhope.com/ Links to an external site.
Colin the Chicken (Portlandia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G__PVLB8Nm4
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