Your Name | Barbara Kaucky |
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Email Address | barbarakaucky@gmail.com |
Cohort Assignment | Europe with In-Person Intensive in Lisbon, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | I co-lead an architecture and landscape design practice based in London. We have a specialism in child-friendly design and work on regeneration strategies and the design of social infrastructure, green spaces and public realm with local authority and charity clients. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | advocacy for sustainable design |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | Understand, nurture and connect places' inherent qualities and people rather than impose myself on them. I want to feel that our design contributions are meaningful and that we manage to sow seeds that mean that projects can evolve in response to changing circumstances rather than fall into ruin. How to work regeneratively. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Build resilience and the ability to bear the discomfort of disagreements and conflict |
5. And for professional growth? | Same as personal growth. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | Connection with family, close friends and nature, care and investment in community and neighbourhood. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Simone de Beauvoir |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | All living beings and the natural world are in connection and interdependent; with humans alone suffering feelings of disconnect and alienation. meaning and sense of belonging can be found by directing our energy to shape our sphere of influence, reclaiming our place in the web and and rediscovering connection with nature. |
Date Created | February 5, 2024 |