LCD Weekly Issue - 025 - Let’s get dirty!
🏔️ Words from the mountains
When was the last time you got dirty? I mean really dirty, like the kind of dirt that gets stuck under your nails for at least two days. Unless you have a garden or kids, getting your hands in the dirt is rare. However, the truth is we all should.
Mycobacterium vaccae is a soil bacteria. This amazing bacteria is "a natural antidepressant, activating brain cells that improve mood, reduce anxiety, and facilitate learning." Doctors and neuroscientists have tested this bacteria with highly positive results for our well-being.
By 2050, 68% of the world's population will live in urban areas, which means our contact with microbes, dirt, nature, and the outdoors will decrease even more.
"Perhaps, instead of teaching children that soil and the bugs that live in them are dirty and gross, we should encourage them, from a young age, to explore and play and get muddy, to enable them to benefit from the complex ecological networks—and rewards in terms of health—that exist within them."
I recommend two things: A. Get your hands in the dirt as soon as possible, and B. Read this article, which inspired me to write this piece.
Oh, and we have some news: we will take some time off during the summer! So, the weekly will be back on August 1st! You can always reach us via this email.
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🐅 LCD in the Wild - Light Phone
This week, we have been preparing for the holidays, and besides emptying our agendas, we are also emptying our minds. We have been scrolling through Instagram way more than we wanted to. So, we have deactivated our personal accounts, and The Light Phone is becoming more and more charming!
"Light was born as an alternative to the tech monopolies that are fighting more and more aggressively for our time & attention. Light creates tools that respect you. Objects that empower you to be your best self. Technology intentionally designed to be used as little as possible. Things that serve you, not the other way around."
🪄 Inspiration- Edd Carr
As co-leader of photo research organisation Sustainable Darkrooms, Yorkshire-born artist Edd Carr takes a very hands-on approach when it comes to his moving image projects.
"Edd Carr's animations use plant-powered processes to explore our ecological crisis
To make his moving image works, the artist prints footage into soil, develops his film in plants and sometimes even buries it in the sea."
🔥 Hot in the School - Slowing down In Summer
Do you need a relaxing and quick read for the holidays? Our Life-Centered Design Guide to Slowing Down is ready for you! You could apply one or more exercises during your break or when you return to work!
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So, that was it!
We will miss writing the weekly, but we also need time to slow down, disconnect and travel to the motherland, Costa Rica!
¡Nos vemos pronto!
Marce and Jeroen
