Most living things work on some kind of clock: day and night, passing seasons, lunar cycles, rising tides, cosmic alignments, life and death. For the most part, humans experience time and space relative to the Earth, to life experience and span. Fuad-Luke, in his slow design manifesto, outlines six time scales and six units of survival that are useful in understanding the various scales at work.
- Year <> Individual
- Decade <> Family
- Century <> Tribe
- Millennia <> Culture
- 10s millennia <> Species
- Eons <> Web of life
In reading this, one could assume that the survival of a tribe or a culture lies in the ability or capacity to expand the time frame of the modus operandi. Clearly, embracing a long term strategy is inevitably a more sustainable one. Bringing it up to the surface in order to see how this magnificent place unfolds? There is beauty in our fragility.
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