Pedro Parrachia
@parrachia
Tending to the Gardens
of digital-native
regeneration
floristic.xyzPedro Parrachia
The End of a World and its Pedagogies | By: Patricia Reed | Making & Breaking
Patricia Reedmakingandbreaking.org
"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence"
- George Saunders
(good advice in general)
Andy Weissmantwitter.com“It became clearer and clearer that disasters are a problem for everyone , and when a disaster doesn’t get enough help that’s bad for everyone , not just the people immediately affected.”
Malka Older • What humanitarian aid might look like in 30 years time
You’re talking to a person at a party and his or her attention is elsewhere, annoyingly. How do you get their attention back to you, and then hold it?
For me, that’s the essence of my approach to writing.
For me, that’s the essence of my approach to writing.
On Success
Solarpunk and
Decentralised technologies are resilient when a phenomenon that I term ‘self-infrastructuring’ occurs. ‘Self-infrastructuring’ is when people are able to participate in designing, owning, operating, governing, and/or maintaining their own infrastructure for resilience. It is the boundaries people place around their own actions in relation to
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"We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning."
Sandra Cisneros • The House on Mango Street
In the world building and worlding eras, when the inhabitants of a world misbehaved and tried to smuggle their own narratives into the worldthe creators have been policing them to reestablish order. In the World Weaving era, rather than working with scripted storylines we should create lore-pills and origin myths that can be sewn together and
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