QUESTIONS ON MY MIND

Reflection By Student Cecilie Lind H Nes

Why don’t we have more empathy with fish and other species in the sea, the source of all life? How can we increase this empathy, learn from other species and become inspired by how they live? On our way to making a more regenerative future as architects, which similarities can be found among us and our fellow species, and how, in the era of mass distinction, can we think more towards a future where all species can thrive together as a community, and feel a greater relation with our planet as a whole.

“A human being is part of the whole – called by us ‘the universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness […] Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature […].”

Einstein, A (1959) In: Designing regenerative cultures (2016, p. 31) av Whal, D. C.

The well-digger jawfish dig a vertical well, up to one meter deep, which they line with pebbles and shells of snails and bivalves in a manner greatly resembling human mortarless masonry work.