Your NameFelipe Rossi
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Cohort AssignmentHybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Costa Rica, Winter-Spring 2024/2025
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Trying to make sustainable solutions in the architectural realm.

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

At this moment I believe it is to bring ideas and promote a more balanced way to do development.

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

trying to find a way to have a balanced development model between nature and human beings. I think that the way we are developing is not the right one.

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

I am about to start a family with the woman I love, which involves a lot of growth, in all aspects of life. Still, I think daily communication, being supportive at all times, being open to listening to other points of view, dialoguing, and creating a path.

5. And for professional growth?

Definitely sustainability or anything related to that topic. I believe the way we are developing the world should be improved, we are losing more and more animal species, the planet's temperatures are rising, natural disasters are becoming more intense, and everything is changing thanks to the way we have slowly destroyed the ecosystem.

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

A lot of working hours.

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

Without a doubt, landscape urbanism focused on architecture and development gave me the basis to think that nature comes first and development comes later. I like the way James Cornes and Charles Wilhelm think.
Then I studied a bit of philosophy and Marcus Aurelius because he helps us every day.

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

Personally, lately I've been reading a lot about stoicism, in the past I’ve studied a bit with a Quero shaman. Both have taught me a lot about how to live a balanced life with myself, with nature, and with others since we are all part of one big interconnected system.

Date CreatedOctober 24, 2024