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Berlin, Tacheles floor sign, unknown artist, May 2012 / photo:lyne lefebvre
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My former «desk and view» during 510.
My new working space for the beginning of 586.
Choices
Needed Wifi!
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MOVING INTO A NEW COURSE ADVENTURE
EECO586 The Biosphere and Ecological Sustainability [ENVEDCO-MA 2011]
My first post in this blog is dated June 14th 2011. Almost a year now...
It was entitled SECOND LIFE, NOT THE WEBSITE and started like this : «I am happy to be starting this MA in Environmental Education and Communication from the School of Environment and Sustainability from Royal Roads University.» I had prepared it to move into my student shoes, trading my Robert for Collins with 2 conditions in mind for the coming months: crucial access to a very reliable internet connection and secondly, feel as far and destabilized as can be. I started this blog as my journal for our first residency class assignment. I kept it in 510 as well, while I was in San Blas, Nayarit. We are now invited to prepare a blog for this new course, so I thought I should simply pick it up again, and continue right here.
Water Palace, Amlapura Tirta Ayu, Bali, 2012.
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JUMPING IN 586
I am excited and always a little stressed to jump into a new class. Ever since the beginning of the program, this course title has been very appealing to me. The course overview, first lectures (heard with some difficulty, Indonesian internet connection has not been efficient for the past 3 days) and initial reading proposals are quite inviting.
The texts and readings which will be commented or cited along the next posts of this blog, will for the most part, be the suggested readings form our instructors, Pr. Laura Loucks and Dr. Johanna Wolf. This week we start with T.S Kuhn, Steven Johnson, Thorstein Veblen and Bill McKibben's End of Nature, that Sheffa Segal, in a first lecture, warns regarding the dark side it may bare. Similarly, although everything appears being extremely beautiful around here, the dark colors of social, environmental and various worldview issues, are also very present.
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CASUAL JOURNALING
After previous 510 course with Profesor Westra, we had a 6 days break, during which I joined another type of classes : Indonesian cooking, traditional offering making, Gamelan music. Period during which I also tried to fill up with as much as my senses could inhale from the Indonesian culture, incredible environment and people, riding a bicycle down from a volcano edge village, or walking through paddies and plantations. I will share some images throughout.
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COOKING CLASS
We will later reduce fresh ingredients into powder and paste ourselves, but, touring the market, our instructor explains the needed ingredients and spices (Galangal -ginger family-, lemongrass, turmeric (white, black, yellow), saffron, cloves, black pepper, white pepper and more...
Our young chef Desak and modest classroom
work space
tools
Exterior barbecue and its hood
Tadam, results, before...
and after.
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