Hara Hachi Bu University
Several years ago after arriving on the Japanese island of Okinawa I was welcomed by a small and elegant old lady, Madame Kuranari. After she presented me with a wonderful … Read More
Is it an urban mushroom farm? Is it a pigeon tower? Is it a pile of compost?
We’re building assemblages with waste mycelium from the oyster mushroom industry. WHAT you call them probably depends on WHEN you encounter them. At first they appear as horizontal mushroom farms. Many of … Read More
Hallmarks of Malignant Growth: Self-sufficiency in Growth Signalling
To understand what makes the idea of continuous growth so powerful, despite it often being very harmful, we turned to cancer research to learn when growth turns malignant. Although cancer is a … Read More
Affluenza is a psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy young people, symptoms of which include a lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and a sense of isolation.
Peeling a Pomelo
Peeling a pomelo is a simple exercise that allows you to experience what it would be like to be a lot smaller. That is, if you’re able to imagine you’re … Read More
The Forced Vegetarian
Because of a change in ‘climate’ the forced vegetarian is unable to consume meat. To satisfy her daily protein needs she turned to root vegetables and pulses. Her relationship with … Read More
The Feynman Zoom
The Zooms are modest symbolic gestures intended to initiate an embodied practise of the desire for smaller. Although they are often hardly more than physical whispers these actions attempt to … Read More
The 5 & 1 Stepback
On the Japanese island of Okinawa people start a meal by offering a piece of advice: hara hachi bu. It means eat until you’re 80% full. Don’t eat until you can … Read More
Harden’s Stepback
Team sports are to a large extent about the creation, or reduction, of space and time. While the offence tries to find space and time to score, the defence is … Read More