Day 9: Relationships and Interactions
In a couple of days we'll switch gears, and each focus on a situation of our choosing for most of the remaining activities. But today, we're going to watch a lovely short ( 4 minute) video about ... trees! Jot down notes (and sketches) as you watch it. With any time that remains, draft a zine page on Relationships or Interactions (as relates to systems and ecologies of systems).
The Secret Language of Trees, by Camille DeFrenne and Suzanne Simard
Everything within a system is changed by being part of that system, every element, every relationship is changed." — Patrick Hoverstadt The Grammar of Systems
"They all together make a certain situation, but they constitute that situation through their relation to one another. If you change one, usually some, if not all, of the others are changed.” — Mary Parker Follett, The Illusion of Final Authority
To understand a system (and ecology or system of systems), we need to understand not only the components but their relationships and interactions. Today we'll close with one of my favorite Buttercup Festival comics.
Image credit: Buttercup Festival, by David Troupes, #2-116