a third landscape, interstices, thresholds, cracks and loopholes.. resorting to science again (biology this time)..

“in the space smoothed over by capitalism, we must imagine other spaces to invest: grooves, cracks, breaches, loop-holes. we must multiply the modalities to act on the edge, the margins, the borders. in permaculture, we refer to the ‘border effect’; the ‘margin effect’ and Clement* reminds us that there is more life where environments meet and overlap: ‘limits-interfaces, canopies, borders, thresholds, outskirts-in themselves comprise biological layers. their wealth is often superior to the environments that they divide’. in the spaces of ‘biological depth’, energy is concentrated and intensified by difference, by the encounter with other species.”
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“Clement tells us that these cracks form a ‘tiers paysage’ – ‘third landscape’ which comprises ‘a territory for the multiple species which find nowhere else to be'”

traces of a third landscape, singing sand desert, inner mongolia

(from Constantin Petcou/Doina Petrescu, “Acting Space – Transversal notes, on-the-ground observations and concrete questions for us all”)