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The Banana Leaf is a Container Technology - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

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relational architectures is a series that locates ways for design to operate through relationships built on solidarity. The Banana Leaf is a container technology. The banana leaf holds, carries, nourishes, passes […]

relational architectures is a series that locates ways for design to operate through relationships built on solidarity. The Banana Leaf is a container technology. The banana leaf holds, carries, nourishes, passes on ways of relating, brings home. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” essay she proposes redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag opposed to a weapon of domination. Le Guin’s essay argues that we should change the dominant narrative— the most pivotal technology was not the familiar hero’s tools of domination, but the carrier bag—a sack, medicine bundle, the c

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