Conscious Design for Life
Day 21: The winter solstice invites us to pause. What changes when your design intention shifts from imposing engineered order to cultivating biodiversity and tending relationships?”
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Day 20/31: What if microbial literacy, teaching about beneficial bacteria, became standard curriculum?
How would this transform our approach to creating healthy school environments?
Shifting our understanding of nature connectedness
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Connecting with the unseen microbial nature world, beyond letting nature in to living with nature …
Day 19: Imagine redefining ‘clean’ as a healthy balanced microbial ecosystem rather than a sterile environment.
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Day 14: What if your building was actually a garden, cultivating beneficial microbes the way you’d grow herbs on a windowsill?
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Buildings as Living Microbial Ecosystems
Day 11: Imagine the space you are in as a thriving space for the billions of microbes that live there, some harmful, most neutral, many beneficial. Is this invisible community thriving or starving?
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Day 10: Where are the pinch points where a single pollinator corridor or chain of gardens could reconnect severed networks?
Regenerative #livingbuildingsdaily sort of adventure calendar
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A #LivingBuildingsDaily (sort of advent) Calendar ... Each day invites a sense of emergence...
'soil specifications still written as if soil biology of last 30 years never happened, still designing dead environments, wondering why they need life support'
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Let’s tread lightly here, there’s asking and listening with the land and its community.
What whispers, what heals, what reciprocates?
Take this slow emergence, not rushing, not seeking tidy cosmetic
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Day 8: How could parks be designed to support mycorrhizal connections rather than isolate each tree in sterile soil?
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… The in betweens planners overlook because they refuse to stay one thing, those awkward path ‘next fence slices, triangles where roads meet, gitties that refuse to be correct … and the cracks where soft light rises.
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Liminal edges, feral thresholds, longing to blur into micro meadows, berry corridors, mini forests, moss bedding and herb understories …
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Day 6: What would it mean to map soil life with the same detail we map utilities?
Stepping gently with soil as cartographer, mapping carbon history,
rainfall memory, fire intervals, species migrations, colonial scars and our footstep echoes
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Day 4: Could stormwater systems double as wetland corridors, purifying water through living chains of soil & roots?
... What imagery, feelings, questions, words, interventions rise for you in letting cities and towns breathe? #LivingBuildingsDaily #Symbiogenesis
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Day 3: What if *every* street became a pollinator pathway connecting fragmented ecosystems?
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
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Day 2: How have pavements cut off underground mycorrhizal networks that once connected trees in mutual support across miles?
Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar
"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
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Day 1: Look at your town or city from a bee’s perspective: where are the flowering corridors and where are the dead zones?
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Mycelium and Masonary
… going beyond the advent calendar to finish 2025 with a series of daily reflection Symbiogenesis prompts (for contemplation, sketching, or conversation) that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be.
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