Click Your Fortune #2: Inspiration - Adital Ela

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Adital Ela: Sustainability Designer
Sandra Aamodt: Neuroscientist; Author
John Werner: Leadership Team, Citizen Schools; Research Scientist, MIT
Alessandro Centrone: Vice President of Sales & Distribution, Steelcase Inc.

It was after ten days of walking in nature

in silence on a meditation retreat

and stepping into an area

that was so pure and tender

that it really felt like no person stepped there

for a very long time or even forever.

And when I stepped there,

the first thought that came to my mind

was questioning whether I have a right to be there,

stepping in a place full of living organisms

thriving there without any human interference.

And then the next thought was,

"What if I was a cow?"

You know, then it would be very natural

for me to walk there.

These very different questions

and these very different ways of looking at myself

walking in the world in a very certain moment

really made me question the whole assumptions

of how we, people, walk on Earth

and work on Earth

and thrive on Earth.

And is there really such a big difference

between the way we view animals

and the way we walk ourselves?

And maybe this inspiration

to how we as designers, as creative people,

as people that are willing to question

everything around us

and find new ways,

is very much about agreeing to walk like cows

and agreeing to be part of this wealth

of living organisms.

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