My house is alive - how earth building healed an Indigenous community | Kristian Rodd | TEDxUWA скачать в хорошем качестве

My house is alive - how earth building healed an Indigenous community | Kristian Rodd | TEDxUWA

After losing their home to a fire, the Bawoorrooga community hit rock bottom. From there, this remote Australian Aboriginal community built themselves back from the ground up – literally. Using the red earth of their sacred homeland, the community built a sustainable home that truly reflected their culture and their land. FISH (Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health) supported this process, which is a model of remote Indigenous housing, education, and self-reliance. In a region suffering from generational trauma, chronic poverty, and among the world's highest suicide rates, the community brings a message of hope and change. "Our house is alive - just like a person, it's breathing. It's made from Mother Earth. In the daytime, it keeps you cool, and at night time it keeps you warm. We’ve always got a big smile now – we’re happy." How can we reconnect with our community and with our land? How can we use our own hands to build a sustainable future? This community shows us how, even when all you've got is dirt, self-empowerment is still possible. A former corporate lawyer working in Melbourne and China. Kristian changed paths to focus on sustainable natural building and, with his partner Jara, has worked throughout Europe, South America and Australia on building earth houses. These experiences showed him how community-driven projects not only drive social change, but also help us meet our essential human need for connection to tribe and land. Kristian and Jara lived for three years in the remote Aboriginal Bawoorrooga community in the Kimberley, working with the community members to co-design and co-build their own SuperAdobe earth house, enabling the community to heal from a recent disaster while establishing a model of sustainable, grassroots remote housing. He is currently a Project Manager with the Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health (FISH). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx