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XV WORLD FORESTRY CONGRESS 2022

Posted on by Luciana Varkulja

uma architecture & design presented research in the XV World Forestry Congress organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in Seoul, South Korea.

From the Summary report 2-6 May 2022, on the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) website:

https://enb.iisd.org/xv-world-forestry-congress-summary

"Convening under the theme “Building a Green, Healthy and Resilient Future with Forests,” the Fifteenth meeting of the World Forestry Congress (XV WFC) sought to define the role of forests in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other major agreements, including the Global Forest Goals, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. During the five-day meeting, participants addressed a wide variety of themes, including: the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration; Forests for a Healthy, Prosperous and Peaceful World; and Sustainable Pathways for Building a Green, Healthy, and Resilient Future. (...) The main outcomes of the Congress include: detailed action proposals following the six sub-themes of the Congress; a Ministerial Call on Sustainable Wood; a youth call for action; and the Seoul Forest Declaration, which outlines shared roles and responsibilities for ensuring a sustainable future for the world’s forests.The Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award 2022 was presented to Cécile Ndjebet, African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests."

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PLOT. VOLUME 8 COOKBOOK. Spring 2019. New York

Posted on by Luciana Varkulja

The annual landscape architecture journal PLOT is curated, edited, and produced by students of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, with the support of Catherine Seavitt Nordenson.

VOL. 8: COOKBOOK. LEARNING FROM CHEFS: AN ARCHITECTURAL MANIFESTO

The eighth volume of PLOT is a COOKBOOK—a compilation of actionable recipes, drawings, and stories for redesigning our food (aka life-support) systems, if not redesigning our lives. The COOKBOOK offers details for how to cope with scarcity and the effects of climate change through cooperation, composition, decomposition, and improvisation. You might find practices and practical advice to help us all get through the future primitive days such that we might still tell ancient stories at night. At the very least, you will find recipes for a tamale, a pastel, and even a pesto sourced from a lawn, to say nothing of the exquisite construction details for a chicken slaughter cone.

Editors: Sarah Dornner, Natalie Galarza, Gabi García, Alexander Kent, Cash Langford, Anna McKeigue, Katarina Medakovich, and Rujuta Naringrekar

Contributors: Damon Arrington, Gina Beavers, Keith Beavers, Theo Brandt, Amy Burrous & Ruth Orlowicz, Sarah Chacich, Joaquin Croxatto, Stef Ferrari, Kurt Forster, Denise Hoffman Brandt, Kyle Knodell, Lena Krause, Jennifer Nitzky, Sébastien Nordenson, Mallory O’Donnell, Marisa Prefer, Emma Ressel, Shruti Shiva, Terreform, Alice Varkulja, Luciana Varkulja, Ruochen Wang, Amber Elicia Wright, and Sofia Zander

Cover: “Boeuf Tartare” (2015) and “Bacon Slugs” (2015) from the Insatiable Hunger and the Peacock’s Plume series by Emma Ressel

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