Sublime

Putting Native Americans back in the picture meant radically redefining what nature means and what the human place in it might be (another undoing of a dichotomy, the nature–culture divide, with profound implications for the environmental movement, which has not yet altogether come to terms with this revision of meaning).

Indy had founded an organisation called Dark Matter Labs as an architecture-practice-meets-think-tank- meets-innovation-consultancy (my summary) when he realised that the kind of housing projects he wanted to develop – projects that prized community and human connection – were virtually impossible within the framework of contemporary property right

Transition imaginaries, Escobar points out, are different depending on the history and circumstances of where you live. In the Global South, one of the ways they are framed is Buen Vivir—or “Good Living” and collective well-being (sumak kawsay in Quechua). Emerging from the struggles of Indigenous communities, people of African descent, peasants, a

Also, in my own research on Tewa Pueblo origins, I’ve found that imagining the community as a garden, with women as corn plants and men as clouds, was central to the emergence of an intercommunity ceremonial system that supported permanent villages and community-level specialization

To decentralize, in this context, means to empower and grant agency equally to every actor and assemblage in the more-than-human world, so that none may have dominion over any other.