A Different Lens: Reawakening Connections to the Land (2025)
Impact Conference
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1h 6m
Working ethically in landscape design requires a recognition that land holds memory, that our ancestors’ footsteps, struggles, and blessings are embedded in it. By honoring our own family land heritage, we can learn to foster a healthy reciprocal relationship with nature. In this talk, Wambui will share how to identify and locate one’s ancestral relationship with nature and, in so doing, completely shift your design process.
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