Imagine a collectivity with the capacity to precipitate a more symbiotic urban landscape

Dear creatures, there are four ideas that I would like to transmit to the future practitioners in practice for the care and preservation of the commons. In the book, Lo—TEK, Julia Watson talks about it in a direct quote to anthropologist Siegfried Beckus to address the emergence of the exemplary landscapes through the sustained and beneficial interaction of communities with the environment, that can be summed up in four qualities. The first is the comprehensive knowledge of plants, animals, soils and landscapes by the communities involved. The second, the management of resources through accessible practice, tools and technology to foster diversity rather than deplete it and creatively deeply interrelated these resources. The third is the emergence of singular governance institutions, flexible and distributed to enable the system self-correction. And the fourth is the emergence of artistic manifestations, ceremonies, rituals that transmit and actualize these links in the community. Considering the capacity of these collectives to interweave apparently unlike resources into driving ecosystems, we could venture that the scarcity or abundance of the reality, also the bond on our capacity to establish creative and sustainable relationships with presences that are not always completely contemplated visually. Through the cultural program of Seville, ‘Luces de Barrio’, we will launch a joint proposal ‘Gardens in the Air’ in Los Pajaritos neighborhood, where designers, landscape architects, performers, musician, composers, voices and writers work together with young people of the Candelaria community to improve the neighborhood by lighting its resources. It was formalized in three works—and more. But we talk about three: a device that recycles the water discarded by air conditioners to cultivate a new ecosystem for plants, birds and humans in a vertical garden; a singular perfume with the remains of the pruning of aromatic spices around, and a vocal concert to transmit the learning through a ceremony in the public space. From this process, imagine a collectivity with the capacity to precipitate a more symbiotic urban landscape through the gradual alignment of more seen, situated and sustainable knowledge, practices, institutions and cultural expression. Thank you so much.