Apart from designing food growing spaces in the city (from community gardens to growing lots of fresh food in my own garden), I am curious to explore the cross overs between permaculture, the arts and other healing practices such as yoga, herbal medicine and exploring the question of where our health comes from, especially in the city, where most of us live.
I had the opportunity to weave together some of my passions for plants, people, technology (in the form of e-waste) in an open source art project. Biomodd London came to life in the form of an experiential and interactive installation art merging the usually opposing worlds of living biology and technology.
Biomodd is a nomadic co-created art project initiated by artist and space researcher Angelo Vermeulen. It had 20 iterations around the world in 10 years and is going strong. The first London iteration manifested in an experiment on plant communication, intelligence and sentience held at a TEDx London City 2.0 event in 2013. For more information and a short video of the event, visit my website.
I have enrolled on the diploma journey under Looby Macamara's mentorship. I am invested in exploring ways to help the paradigm shift in humans towards abundance vs scarcity thinking, co-operation vs competition and empowering key community members of disadvantaged minority groups.
I use the Design Web, created by Looby Macnamara as a tool to assist personal introspection ( I can see myself clearer under its lens), as well as assisting other students and practitioners on their design projects. Currently, I am exploring ways to engage with the Design Web as an interactive game to encourage learning through play.
I am invested in bringing permaculture into mainstream education and I am currently developing an "Outdoor edible classroom" project for a school of 50 pupils in Goa, India. This will serve as a safe food producing and learning space, where pupils can engage with maths, science, biology, astrology, water catchment, soils, composting, etc. The first stage was implemented in December 2017.
I completed teaching the first Yoga and Permaculture PDC in the Himalayas, India. I am designing a series of PDC certificate courses, retreats and workshops for 2018 that merge permaculture with other healing practices. We will be focusing on social permaculture, mental health, vegan foods and yoga. For more details please contact me on [email protected].