DUMPLING PICKS #009 outlines the latest macro and micro trends from Asia. Scroll down to a new section of wise words from pioneering minds from the region 🔮
Lighter Fare 💥
Sour plum vodka (話梅) 🥃 The competitive world of kids balance bike race 🚴🏻♀️ Tropical architecture 🌴 Reigniting your material senses 🌾 Sanya wants to restore its tropicality, but also made it fun 🛝 A journey of Chinese flying cars 🛸 A bottle of Fukien culture 🥢 Design as freeplay (自由な形) 🍄
Deeper Reads 🔍
An Alternative India 🇮🇳 Sustainability without equality is impossible 😣 A study of basketry from the Malay Archipelago 🧺
Wise Words 🧠
The ideology of ‘development’ that has been exported from the West use GDP as an indicator of how countries are developing. However it assumes a unilinear progression of society from agricultural to industrial, which assumes [all] countries need progress in that way to develop. The reality on the ground is much more nuanced and complex. There is no reason to think that a pastoral livelihood is less able to provide well-being than an industrial or post-industrial livelihood.
An Alternative India • Ashish Kothari • Environmentalist • India 🇮🇳
Indigenous knowledge is a form of radical knowledge in times of natural materials scarcity and environmental crisis. There is so much to learn, listen and understand from the indigenous world, not just as a thing of the past, but to understand how distant we are from our surroundings, and therefore potentially use these wisdoms to reimagine the future.
Evey Kwong • Designer-Researcher • Malaysia 🇲🇾