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Micro Macro MONDLAB - DIVINE GARDENING

Micro Macro MONDLAB

DIVINE GARDENING - The “poetic Description”

In the beginning there was Earth, and through time matter transformed and became life as we know it, through amino acids combining to create the first organic cells. The molecular structures that this planet consists of has been and are still transforming. Through this process, bacteria and other forms of life evolved and from this, what we consider life today was shaped into complex structures of cells that played and still plays different roles, all contributing to one higher purpose as the many faces of life. These tiny creatures adapted to the specific habitat in which they dwelled in an orbit around the star that life forms on this planet eventually came to know as the Sun. The small one-celled creatures that lived in the midst of all this on the outskirts of our galaxy changed and interchanged bits of information to develop new skills needed in a new context in every changing surroundings to inhabit new places in the environment on the planet.

Life was spreading over the rocky surface of the planet. An elegant and amazing process that over billions of years developed an atmosphere that prepared for other types of creatures to enter the scene and higher expression forms of life on this planet developed – life as we know it today - was due to this amazing integral process of constant transformation. Nothing is ever wasted or really dies, it just transforms. There is only constant transformation in the eternal life of matter. As life grew ever more complex it became fishlike and swam the vast ocean that covered the planet. The longing for life to know itself in its entirety was so strong that with the help of time and the inner fire that sparks leaps in evolution, it conquered land.

The fish that had wanted to know Mother Earth in its entirety swam up on land, and its love for the world and longing to know it caused it to evolve into higher expression forms and once again the fire of evolution burned inside it as it had before and thus the amphibian sprang forth, on the shorelines of the vast unconscious ocean, to conquer land. The frog, once kissed turned into man that knew, man that knew it was Man, and that it knew that this knowledge was held by man himself.

Now we stand at this point again where we long to know the full scope of matter and life, we want to know ourselves and to know the the living home we have as well as the universe. This is a challenge we are confronted with today. To know that we are alive and to bring awareness of that knowledge into the depths of matter on this planet. To wake up from the illusory ego identification with Homo, and becoming Sapiens alone.

With this the entire Earth, our habitat, can become aware of itself. We in turn become aware that we are bright knowledge from above, descended here where a home had been made for us, in this womb in which we are born into, whose crops and livestock are our umbilical cords, in this huge organism whose placenta we still feed upon, our nourishing Mother, in which we, like the baby kangaroo, still live and where we have made a home for ourselves – on this planet.

By waking up to this greater context in which we reside and in which we dwell we can make this a home for us to live in, not wanting to retract from it, looking for greener grass to graze in some high far away place. No, it is our belief that we can realize that all around us is alive, and create homes around us that live and evolves with us as we evolve with the world around us. We are the “Earth-Life” that became Aware for a reason, and it is time to use this awareness to create the home we want to live in, because it is in our hands, and in our power to do so, thus it is also our obligation, because it is together we think, together we exist, we are all individual parts of one great system, like the different cells in the body we adapt and do different tasks, the tasks that we are designed to do, the tasks that we love to do. That is how we evolve, by reconnecting us with each other and igniting that inner spark that causes frog leaps in evolution. So lets ignite our alchemical fires and bring forth a new generation of “Earth-Life” living products for the planet as well as for our homes. Products and concepts that understands “what its all about”. Trying is the least we can do, and success is dependant on us trying.

DIVINE Gardening project at Micro Macro Monde – MondLab

MondLab

What?
Creating gardens, products and services related to new ways of cultivating plants and also developing ones inner nature. Does it sound strange – well read “the secret life of plants” and your point of view of what plants and gardens are all about will change forever.

How?

We will set up experimental gardens and we hope to see students from the creative disciplines such as: design, landscape architecture, botanists, mind expanding disciplines, marketing, ecology, philosophy etc. all to come and develop new concepts of how divine gardens can be created and products related to them be developed. A curriculum is composed and the process is documented.

Why?
The field of biomimicry is expanding as mans consciousness is expanding to understand the fact that the solution to living in harmony with nature already exists within nature itself. This coupled with a holistic approach to the process of creating, seeing us as integral parts of nature can allow us to connect with our inner nature and create outcomes better adapted to our lives than pure mechanistic solutions. The two course leaders of this project are sure that such solutions are out there for the taking if we only tune in to the right frequency and listen to nature – we need to have a serious dialogue with nature since it is for the sake of sacred nature we are doing this and who knows the remedies better than nature herself?
We will have an open approach embracing all the results that come out of it  – seeing it as an “Earth-Life” lab, explorations into unknown, and yet for some, very known fields. We believe miracles can happen – or rather we know they happen and we believe that we as designers have the pragmatic dimensions to make some really stunning and beautiful projects done.
This lab is a venture into the field where holistic gardening meets product design, a cross over that will yield unexpected outcomes. We anticipate miraculous results from letting different disciplines meet, exchange ideas and work together with designers to create fantastic useful outcomes.

The results are to be documented in a variety of media such as video documentaries, articles and other material for developing the findings into concepts that become product and services that can be implemented both as yet unforeseen products as well as gardening systems in different spaces around the world.
The final results will hopefully evolve under a long time to come, however the initial findings should be implemented by designers in products and services in a near future. First year course will develop methods of using living mater integrated in design to evolve the way we look at our creations.
The purpose is to create a holistic garden system that looks at humans and plants as interconnected parts in one integrated living system, exploring the benefits from this perspective for gardens, people and products.

Divine Gardens

-Bringing Eden to Earth.
-       An MMM retreating for getting to know Mother Earth, to connect with Anima Mundi.
-       A course in seeing the life in Matter. To see that the plants, and world does not only live but that it is also alive with spirit and soul, just like us, no less superior, just our other half that processes on this planet as well in the universe – probably – are eternal.
-       We will build a garden – we will talk to the plants – and they might talk to us. We will listen to what they say and we will design and develop what they – and Mother Earth asks us to do. And yes at the end of the course you will see life, your work, your world and surely whatever you are bringing to the world in VERY different ways. Hopefully they will tell us how to use them the best in this new technological era.
-       The course aims at letting the participants experience new terrain in their inner landscape and, like a seed, grow out of the soil and open up to the sun above with all the new experiences that this entails. In the personal sphere this means that the individual will be nourished and cultivated so that a realization of true self arises and so that identification with the seed is changed for an identification of the full flower and its surroundings allowing you to bloom.
-        The aim is to get an understanding of the forces of nature. We can take an active role in this by working with that very force that creates frog leaps in evolution. This force that brings life from water up on the shorelines in the amphibian, then further up on land and in subsequent metamorphous unfolds to acquire wings. Working with the one fire that burns on the edge of the abyss in a loving embrace of flames to purge it into spirit in this alchemical process in exploring the best symbiotic relationship between Man and Plant - “Earth-Life”.

This very unique MMM course is held by designers Artur Moustaf & Niels Peter Flint and brings in revered teachers such as Kenden Bhutia (Vajrayana Khandro-Ma (Female Lama). The course will as all other courses include yoga and other mindful exercise possibilities as well as wild organic cooking and many other surprises.

Time:

July 6th to July 11th 2009

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