Published in WeavingLab·Feb 28Weaving and scaling: two forces of nature combinedA 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…Weaving5 min readWeaving5 min read
Published in Age of Awareness·Sep 5, 2022Cooling the planet drop by dropThis 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. …Water6 min readWater6 min read
Feb 3, 2022Member-onlyWe myceliumMycelium 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…Mycelium1 min readMycelium1 min read
Published in Age of Awareness·Nov 9, 2021Member-onlyLetting go of illusions, without losing hopeI 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…Climate Action5 min readClimate Action5 min read
Published in CounterApocalypse·Oct 29, 2021Member-onlyLearning from the transformative capacity of fungiCo-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…Regenerative Design6 min readRegenerative Design6 min read
Aug 15, 2021Building zeppelins from trainsThe 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. …Mwc Space5 min readMwc Space5 min read
Jul 15, 2021Member-onlyTo all my relationsWhen 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…Community Development3 min readCommunity Development3 min read
Jul 13, 2021Member-onlyKeep an eye out for the silent revolutionsFour 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…Big Pharma3 min readBig Pharma3 min read
Jul 8, 2021Member-onlyThe importance of pollination in eco-networksA brief encounter with pollinator Lauren Minis and others — Our world is moving ever faster, we have ever increasing connections and yet we feel detached. Detached from each other, detached from nature, detached from ourselves. In trying to repair my own feeling of detachment there was a time I steered away from social media. I felt that networking was…6 min read6 min read
Jun 28, 2021Is weaving the new scaling?In my previous article I suggested that a more symbiotic relation between humans and nature might be possible. Here I’ll go a step further and argue the ‘symbiocene’ is already here. You just have to know where to look. In the coming weeks I will write a series to show…Wellbeing5 min readWellbeing5 min read
