[Qing Lan - Environmental Architecture - Vegetation Classification System for Indigenous Knowledge Communication with the Outside - COVER IMG] The Rubik's Cube shows the different cognitive systems of the environment and they need communication. The background image is one of the cognitive maps made by the indigenous people.
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Environmental Architecture - Vegetation Classification System for Indigenous Knowledge Communication with the Outside

Project locationMantangai, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
University/SchoolRoyal College of Art
Lead ArchitectQing Lan
ClientMantangai village
Projecthttps://issuu.com/lanqing1221/docs/portfolio_2
Project Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqZVF9HT6w

The project regards the coexistence mode between indigenous people and their forest as an "environmental architecture", and seeks to make it as an agent to participate in a broader environmental and political transformation by conveying the indigenous knowledge. Due to the 2015 big fire and the expansion of plantation companies, the indigenous people in Borneo lost their peat forest. It is a participatory system which helps the people translate their knowledge of shifting farming to scientific language and map to prove their land under OMI, and then manage the environment with the government.