kula labs

patterns and partnerships

Awakening Lands

Awakening Lands is embarking on a journey of regenerative storytelling and movement building, working towards a happier and healthier way of being human on Earth. Their mission is to shed light on local histories, events, current realities, inspiring and devoted community leaders, and visions for more ecological communities, and connections to place. Together, we hope to create a civic space where communities are empowered to share their many stories. And as these stories are told and heard, we will collectively learn how to seed and nurture regenerative cultures locally in landscapes.

Leads: Benji Ross and Anna Purpera

For more, please visit the Awakening Lands Substack.

ReLocalize Creativity

ReLocalize Creativity is an open platform presenting a living global pattern repository, and sharing tools, skills and methods training. It is intended to enable creatively thinking together and acting together to relocalize patterns that are important to us. At Kula, we use the ReLocalize Creativity framework to see patterns in the systems we are a part of and determine the nature of our entanglements (if any) with patterns from other systems. Kula Labs itself can be seen as a pattern: one that observes, weaves, and supports other patterns in service of Earth.

Leads: Marc Pierson and Kerry Turner

For more, please visit Kula's ReLocalize Creativity FedWiki.

Green Gate Neighborhood Development Center

In our neighbourhoods, we have largely forgotten how to take care of each other, how to grow our own food, how to build our own houses, how to protect each other, how to educate our children and one another, how to work together for and with people we know, how to care for our elders and children and less fortunate ones, how to be healthy, and how to take care of our place on the Earth.

Hosted at Green Gate Farms, the Neighborhood Development Center is a neighbor-led and inspired applied learning centre where we (re)learn how to belong with each other and nature, and "how to live in a place." Our goal is to empower individuals and neighborhoods to develop a deeper connection to their local environment and work towards more sustainable and regenerative ways of living.

For more, please visit #RegenerateCentralTexas

Platform of Community Action and Architecture

POCAA is a platform for the exchange of knowledge, formed with a dream to create a network of communities engaged in self-initiated community architecture. Through the process of "Let's co-create our community?", they facilitate community movement and empowerment by exchanging academic knowledge, available resources and living wisdom within their societal system. Together with POCAA, we are attempting to redefine the image of low-income communities and set examples of nurturing healthy, creative and sustainable environments with limited space and resources.

Lead: Lamia Anwar Shama (left, in photo)

"What is Community?" with POCAA

For more, please visit POCAA.