ISSUE KJ91
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To ‘sustain’ essentially means to provide sustenance—which is almost by definition what our basic life support system, the natural world, does… or used to do. We are sustained by things we can’t necessarily name or accurately describe, all bound together by myriad tangled invisible interconnections of cause and effect…
cover: macoto murayama
right image: erik linton
INSIDE THE ISSUE
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endless flows
“Sustainability isn’t about permanence, but about the endless flows within which living beings exist. These are not unchanging flows. Aging naturally is, I feel, the essence of sustainability. If human beings were never to get old, that would not be really living.” — superstar architect Kengo Kuma talks to Thomas Daniell
pictured: the portland japanese garden extension by KKAA; photo by jeremy bitterman
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reviving okinawan “spirit food”
“People really appreciated millet and served it to the gods as an expression of gratitude. But now that millet is gone from our culture, even the culture of prayer, that heart of giving and serving the gods, is gone as well.” —Naoko Nakasone, proprietor of the Okinawan restaurant, Ukishima Garden, speaks to Ananya Mayukha
pictured: naoko nakasone
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