Showing posts with label tradition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tradition. Show all posts
06/03/2010
Uros people, nice photos
http://www.life.com/image/88371579/in-gallery/33142/the-floating-isles-of-lake-titicaca
Thanks to Gabriella Gomez-Mont for the link.
Maybe many of you know, but there is a group of people living on floating islands, in Peru, on the lake Tititkaka, the Uros people. Check the link above to see a nice series of images, for the wikipedia article follow this link.
Thanks to Gabriella Gomez-Mont for the link.
Maybe many of you know, but there is a group of people living on floating islands, in Peru, on the lake Tititkaka, the Uros people. Check the link above to see a nice series of images, for the wikipedia article follow this link.
15/11/2009
Baira, floating gardens in Bangladesh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWGRX_cH3oM
Our friends Aissa Logerot and Amandine Chhor are working on this theme between Cambodia and France, trying to invent new design inspired by ancient techniques and adressing environmental issues using the water hyacinth, an invasive specy from amazonia, check ou their blog surlesrivages.blogspot.com.
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