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WHERE TO GET SUPPLIES for this assignment:

U District Farmers Market (Saturdays 9am-2pm) or any neighborhood farmers markets and farm stands near you
Beacon Food Forest
UW Center for Urban Horticulture, the UW Farm, UW Greenhouses and Medicinal Herb Garden
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

2. Donna Haraway Staying with the Trouble - Introduction

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. She has also contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a leading scholar in contemporary ecofeminism. Her work criticizes anthropocentrism, 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

Lecture by Haraway at the San Francisco Art Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYA7sMQaBQ&t=5504s

3. Arturo Escobar Pluriversal Politics

Escobar_PluriversalPolitics.pdf

About Arturo Escobar

Arturo Escobar (born November 20, 1951) is a Colombian-American anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His academic research interests include political ecology, anthropology of development, social movements, anti-globalization movements, political ontology,^[2] and postdevelopment theory.^[3]

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] 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 (2018). Escobar's approach to anthropology is largely informed by the poststructuralist and postcolonialist traditions. He is critical of international development, which in his eyes became a mechanism of control comparable to colonialism or "cultural imperialism that poor countries had little means of declining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)

Discussion with Escobar

Video by The Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC), The Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-o0merYDLA

On Regenerative Agriculture

Common Ground documentary (2023) - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-M4Hq0MKFA&list=PLjjEFvrA7_9t9bsRMbFQeox2lxOumHYV9

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

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/

Bamboo pavilion, Shanghai, China https://architizer.com/projects/bamboo-pavilion-4/

Agnes Denes: Wheatfield http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/works7.html

Michael Rakowitz uses everyday objects https://art21.org/read/in-the-studio-michael-rakowitz/

Sew Liberated The Mindful Wardrobe Project https://sewliberated.com/the-mindful-wardrobe-project

Care Pavilion at the London Design Biennale https://londondesignbiennale.com/pavilions/2023/care-pavilion

Guest Artist Emily Endo http://www.emilyendo.com

Guest Artist Lily Hope https://www.lilyhope.com/

Colin the Chicken (Portlandia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G__PVLB8Nm4