Connecting with Nature in a Digital Age w— Kalpana Arias
“If we lose interaction with nature, we’ll lose nature [itself] because we’ll lose not only will, we’ll lose forms of interaction, and we’ll lose the skills to be able to interact with nature.” — Peter Khan from Nature in the Digital Age
Are technology + nature separate? At odds? Climate activist + ecosomatics educator Kalpana Arias joins the podcast to talk about embodied regeneration and ways to think more openly at the intersection of tech and climate. She asks us to remember our body as an ecosystem and to see ourselves as a part of the environment we’re in whether we live in the city or not.
Kalpana is a tech-anthropologist, climate activist, and ecosomatics educator currently working at the intersection between technology, nature, and urban design. In 2020 they founded Nowadays On Earth; a platform advocating for contact with nature in the digital age and growing environmental justice for individual and planetary wellbeing.
we discuss
what is ecosomatics?
why is regeneration so important and how does it become something we embody?
her simple practices for connecting to our earthliness
how do we navigate the world as it is right now as opposed to just thinking about the world as a mental concept
if our body is an ecology, what are the implications of that?
what is a wider view of technology?
our current crisis of imagination + lack of dreaming
how to critically and sovereignly engage with technology
where does tech serve climate activism or where could it + where does it not?
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Kalpana’s IG @nowadaysonearth
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Mentioned in the episode—
Nature in the Digital Age, article by Kalpana Arias + illustrations by Le.BLUE
Stolen Focus, book by Johann Hari
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