Check in on Tick Tack Garden
Check in on Mycelium plastic tests
Sharing community you wish to serve and what their needs are. Who are primary users and secondary users of system issue? (share from your journal)
What is Circular Design? Thoughts?
Where is circular design and sustainability design in culture and Indigenous practices?
Maize was revered to such an extent that Nahua women BLEW ON MAIZE BEFORE PUTTING IT INTO THE COOKING POT SO THAT IT WOULD NOT FEAR THE FIRE, & any maize that was dropped on the ground was picked up rather than wasted. Chronicler Bernardino de Sahagún explained the practice in the following way: "Our sustenance suffers, it lies weeping. If we should not gather it up, it would accuse us before our Lord. It would say: O our Lord, this vassal picked me not up when I lay scattered on the ground. Punish him. Or perhaps we should starve." Florentine Codex
“It reminds me of how as kids whenever we dropped something on the floor we would "kiss it up to God" & then we'd eat it thinking that whatever blessing we're evoking would protect us from coming into contact with some crazy-ass microbio!” --Xago
What does this image say about the Mexica intimate relationship with food? How do we relate to our food & food waste today & what can we reclaim from our ancestral practices?
As materials depleted during former mesoamerican epidemics, the indigenous codex artists reserved color for stories deemed the most important. As we find ourselves in the midst of a novel pandemic, what stories remain important to us?
These images are from pages from the “The General History of the Things of New Spain” — better known as the Florentine Codex. “It is a massive 2,000-page compendium of Nahua (a.k.a. Aztec) life in the Valley of Mexico, where Mexico City is now located. In both Spanish and Nahuatl (the Nahua language), the codex is composed of 12 handwritten books featuring almost 2,500 illustrations. The last two books were created during a smallpox pandemic. As the contagion took its toll and supply lines for pigments fray, color disappears from the illustrations partway through Book 11. By Book 12, it’s as if all life has been drained out of it." La Times
These images are from book 11. 90% of indigenous populations throughout the Americas died from disease in the 16th century — so many it cooled Earth’s climate for a number of decades as untended fields were taken over by carbon dioxide-absorbing overgrowth. It’s an event referred to as “the Great Dying.”
“It reminds me of how as kids whenever we dropped something on the floor we would "kiss it up to God" & then we'd eat it thinking that whatever blessing we're evoking would protect us from coming into contact with some crazy-ass microbio!” --Xago
What does this image say about the Mexica intimate relationship with food? How do we relate to our food & food waste today & what can we reclaim from our ancestral practices?
As materials depleted during former mesoamerican epidemics, the indigenous codex artists reserved color for stories deemed the most important. As we find ourselves in the midst of a novel pandemic, what stories remain important to us?
These images are from pages from the “The General History of the Things of New Spain” — better known as the Florentine Codex. “It is a massive 2,000-page compendium of Nahua (a.k.a. Aztec) life in the Valley of Mexico, where Mexico City is now located. In both Spanish and Nahuatl (the Nahua language), the codex is composed of 12 handwritten books featuring almost 2,500 illustrations. The last two books were created during a smallpox pandemic. As the contagion took its toll and supply lines for pigments fray, color disappears from the illustrations partway through Book 11. By Book 12, it’s as if all life has been drained out of it." La Times
These images are from book 11. 90% of indigenous populations throughout the Americas died from disease in the 16th century — so many it cooled Earth’s climate for a number of decades as untended fields were taken over by carbon dioxide-absorbing overgrowth. It’s an event referred to as “the Great Dying.”
Biomaking Exercise 3: Algae String (cooking show format we will do together) You have materials in your kit.
COME TO THE NEXT MEETING WITH:
- Your Algae yarn dried and ready to share!
- Interview a family member or someone who has been involved with agriculture. What is their experience with pesticides? What were the most difficult things about it. Take notes in your journal.
- Decorate you morralito bag
- Watch Climate Smart Agriculture video below. Come ready to discuss.