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A few blocks from my house, a single-track desire line an unofficial path carved out by foot traffic leads into the trees off a busy arterial road. The trail follows the ridge of a ravine, the frozen curves of a creek visible at the bottom of a leafless slope. I carefully descend a spur to the waterway’s edge and engage in some low-impact trundling, tossing rocks and sticks into the air to see if they’ll crack the ice when they land. They skitter and whirr across the solid surface, high-pitched reverberations echoing off the valley walls. Right before the path climbs to a quiet residential road, atop a promontory bound on three sides by a C-shaped meander, I spot a tidy guerilla campsite: tent, tarp, hibachi. It looks like a postcard and delivers a jolt of perspective. Walking in our own neighbourhoods connects us to the human and natural ecosystems where we are right now, deepening our relationships with the tangible world in ways that Zoom cannot. Exposure to these realities he
Conference examines citizen s role in SEA
published : 28 Jan 2021 at 04:00 (Photo courtesy of Alliance Française Bangkok)
Alliance Francaise on Witthayu Road is holding Bangkok s Night Of Ideas , a conference and debate on the environmental issues and the role of citizens in Southeast Asian cities, today at 5.30pm. The event also will be presented online.
A collaboration with the Embassy of France, the French Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (Irasec), the Urban Design and Development Center at Chulalongkorn University (CU-UDDC) and Heinrich Böll Foundation, this is the first of a series of conferences around the theme of Ecological And Civic Transitions In Southeast Asia s Cities supported by the Fonds d Alembert from the Institut Français in Paris.