Part 1: A truthful conversation with my younger self Photo: Me’s telling a story, art installation by Eva George (2012) This week I was in a conversation with Michele Holliday, writer of the book ‘the age of thrivability.’ We discussed the importance of storytelling and being able to share livid experiences to help people see another perspective. A perspective…

A long time ago I was sitting at a long dinner table. At the head was the director of a children’s theatre. The subject was religion. She recalled a young girl in her class who’s parents were fanatically atheistic. Upon being asked about god, the girl presented the most wonderful…

This summer has definitely brought home the message that water is the most pressing climate issue we currently face. Rising temperatures and extreme drought have send wild fires across the globe while floodings are threatening the subcontinent. But while water management is one of greatest challenges, it may also hold…

Mycelium is difficult to spell That’s all very well Mycelium is a noun And now I have a bit of a frown A verb would be more fitting As it is always moving and shifting It is ever growing outside of our view Its’ reach so wide if only we…

I walk through the forest in my city. It rained yesterday and today and like they are answering to a call from the skies, fungi in different shapes and colours have popped up their heads. This is their season, fall. The season of letting go, of decay, a necessary step…

Co-evolution in the Mycelium age Mycelium: the mass of interwoven filamentous hyphae that forms especially the vegetative portion of the thallus of a fungus and is often submerged in another body (as of soil or organic matter or the tissues of a host) If it wasn’t for mycelium, life as we know it would not…

The space in the middle of a polarizing world Take a rubber band and pull it in two directions it will either break or snap back. The widening gap between hyper capitalism and post-modernization is creating an ever increasing centrifugal power that pushes the marginalized to the extremes. We live in a world of extremes, the question is how…

When I design a garden creating relations is the way and the goal combined. When I work with people I adhere to the same credo. Especially in the beginning of a group process it demands active facilitation so that we start to grow a collective responsibility for it. With this…

Four Dutch Hospitals take on Big Pharma Revolutions have always fascinated me. When we were students we imagined them to be glorious with people overthrowing dictators and breaking down the walls of privilege and palaces. And then of course the Arab spring came and the Orange revolution …and they went…