Facilitating transdisciplinary and interspecies communications to co-create circular, nature-inspired innovations.
When I decided to go back to graduate school to get a masters, I had no idea where it would lead. I felt the need to do it for various reasons, many of which were accentuated when they announced a program that was created and taught by one of my all-time plant neurobiology idols: StefanoContinue Reading This is what Graduate School is teaching me about Modern Living
Have you ever had the feeling that your whole life is changing and you are no longer in the driver’s seat? This month, this is exactly how I feel. In March, I packed a few things and moved down to Florence to start graduate school… After all these years, why would I subject myself againContinue Reading How To Use Urban Planning to Create Urban Plantasy
In prehistoric times—science is finding—affluence was abundant. Affluence was not in the way we think of it today—with an almost compulsive need to have many things either because we “like” them or because we fear we may need them. The paleolithic human didn’t need to have everything, or even less, duplicates of things. There wasContinue Reading The Need to Complete the Cycle
It’s always nice to come back to “home” to Damanhur, especially when I can bring people with me. After months of planning, Michael Pawlyn and Pietro Laureano — two rockstars of the architecture world — came to see the temples of Damanhur and discuss how nature and ancient knowledge can be integrated into the physicalContinue Reading What I Learned about Architecture and Nature
Professor Stefano Mancuso often starts his talks with a slide and asks, “What do you see?” The slide is simple: a meadow surrounded by trees. The response? Almost always, “nothing”. Then he shows same meadow with two deer. “Now what do you see?” The public cries, “deer!” That “nothing” is the base of one ofContinue Reading Plant Blindness, Working on a Cure