Heuristic

(adj.) 1. Involving or serving as an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methods."

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And that’s a wrap! 🎬 Just spent the last week with a talented group of filmmakers-socially conscious/active -magic makers at a workshop on #ParticipativeFilmmaking #VideografiaParticipativa. We went into the field to practice our tools where Miriam, Lupe and Rosa, our three heartwarming hosts showed us around their chacra and collaborated in making a film about the struggles they and their community face regarding changes in climate, lack of infrastructure for sustainable agricultural production and raising community awareness and engagement #WaterManagement #Infrastructure #RuralFlight #AgriculturalDiversity #communityengagement #ElChampal (at El Champal de Cocachacra)

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I spent last weekend following #ElizabethPovinelli and the #KarrabingFilmCollective as they gave master classes and workshops about their process of #ImprovisationalRealism #filmmaking #entanglements and #coproduction. I realized that #stubbornness, more than #hope , is what we need to challenge the effects of #lateLiberalism and #SettlerColonialism in the #anthropocene. I learned that “it’s not about doing something new, but how to continue something, how to do it again but in a different form” and that we need to “pull it down into the lives that people actually live.” Awesome lady, awesome work being done by Karrabing! #BeStubborn #HopeIsNotEnough (at Tate Modern)

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Summers in Oxford (at Port Meadow, Oxford)

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Summertime #hammocklife #hangloose (at University Parks)

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Spent yesterday's sunny afternoon with #IFSTAL at #GrowUpBox urban farm! Sam Cox, in charge of design and development, explained to us how their #aquaponicsystem can grow tones of greens (and fish) with environmental, social and economically sustainable strategies. Check out what they're up to at their commercial farm and non-profit outreach container (pictured above!) #urbanfarm #aquaponics #eatlocal #GrowUpUrbanFarms #containerfarming # (at Roof East)

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It's been a great day listening to a variety of speakers at @oxford_uni who are working to bridge the silos surrounding food systems! The Seventh Annual Oxford Food Forum 2017- Beyond the Silo: Understanding and Building Linkages Across the Food System has come and gone (although I can't say quickly) it's been lovely few months working with this marvelous group of #foodfemales and the @OxfordMartinSchool @FutureOfFood group #OFF17 #BeyondTheSilo #oxfordmartinschool #futureoffood #SoGE (at University of Oxford)

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Feeling in need of a #SafeSpaceForStupidity (I guess it will have to be at #mydesk) @will.i.am.official #williamkentridge #louisianamuseum ;also check out my cool @mediamatic_eten pizza topping postcard #pizzalover #Amsterdam (at University of Oxford)

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Currently in the Library working in my term paper that I meant to have done by last week #procrastination... I open up my book #StayingWithTheTrouble to remember that THE Donna Haraway has signed my book "to #HumusHumans, #MyKin" #heroes #becomingwith #becomingwithmylaptop #cyborg (at Bodleian Social Science Library)

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Found my old oceanography notebook... #lotsadrawings #tellmeyoucantunderstandtho #diagramgamestrongAF

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FIU Then and Now 1938-2013 #fiu #thenandnow #GIS #FIUGIScenter (at Florida International University)

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Red Banana Passionfruit

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Different fleurs here but I'm a fan nonetheless 🌼 (at University of Oxford Botanic Garden)

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Linacre recycles plastic, glass and even food waste 😏🌱 #oxfordsso @studentswitchoff (at Linacre College)

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We had a GREAT day traveling around A'dam doing our Oxford Urban Agriculture research project! A lot of BIG things coming out of this place, like #urbaniahoeve! We sat with @debra.urbaniahoeve who told us about her #7layers concept and visions of a #forestgarden city, where #agroforestry is an integral aspect of the urban landscape. She enlightened us a lot about #Amsterdam soil and the challenges it provides, we took part in a #RadicalObservation exercise (and she even let us play with the #beastsofthesoil in her #vermicompost!) V cool experience and V admirable project going on here! #urbaniahoeve #demotuinnoord #voedselbos #freefoodforall #entropical #osi #debrasolomon #jaromil (at Amsterdam-Noord)

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Fairy tale settings abound (at University Parks)

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Of Masculinity and Femininity

We discussed Jefferey Weeks' The Language of Sexuality (2011) a while back in class. Two topics of interest were the concept of "Masculinity" and "Feminitity." What do they mean? How do these meanings change across cultures? How do they interact with our cultural systems (one only needs to look at any advertising to see examples of how human sexuality is used every day to get us to interact with the economic system)

So to bring up some interesting perspectives, I will be posting two videos:

One about the objectification of women. The other about American idealism and what it means to be "masculine"

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The Mask You Live In (Trailer)

The Representation Project