Week 10: Looking Back

Resilience Definition

At the start of the semester I wrote out this definition and example of resilience:

re·sil·ience /rəˈzilyəns/————— noun

the ability to not only survive unexpected or extreme events but to continue to grow positively through and beyond these experiences 

• Tools/techniques: community connections, self-reliance in regards to the production of goods and services (food, clothes, power, shelter, tools), foraging, survival skills, self-defense, sustainable reliance on local/naturally occurring resources, a strong sense of self, rest

I largely still stand by this definition, but I think this class has largely expanded my ideas of where to look for inspiration around how to practice resilience. The readings and discussion around systems thinking and mycelium were really impactful for me as frames of reference for how to envision and create resilience.

Topics to Revisit

I’m interested in revisiting and diving deeper into a couple of concepts that we read about: mycelium networks, living sensing systems, and solar power and art. For this week I’m going to take some time to work more on the “seasonally affected” bot concept I shared last week as a way to dive deeper into solar art and save my revisit of mycelium and live sensing systems for the summer.

Research for Final Exploration

Ikea grow cabinets. Indoor growing products and sensors. DIY fermentation chambers.