We Are Not the Only "Who"

our imaginations shape the experiences we design, and the experiences we design shape our imaginations.

And language is a fundamental tool in architecting both. The details and specificity and intention of it constructs our beliefs about how the world is, and can unlock all of the new ways we might hope it to become.

Language can be a gift, and language can be a tool of colonialism.

The western point of view, the dominant materialist worldview, holds that land is the source of ecosystem services, land as property, as capital, as natural resources. Sustainability defined as how we can continue to use and to take. Whereas the indigenous perspective honors land a

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