Every week over the semester students in the Metro Nature course are given a metro n'sych task that builds their connection to the natural systems we depend on and/or ignore in our city lives (like; water, food, lunar cycles, waste, etc.). By the end of the semester the hope is that the class will become much more in tune with nature from within the city and better appreciate the complex systems that effect our lives and biological selves.
This week's task it to pay attention to and keep track of the weather which has us all looking to the sky a bit more than usual. If there ever was a city or urban area where the sky should be considered and regarded regularly it is the that above + around San Fran...
'If the earth is the record of what has happened, the sky is the realm of portents and prophecies, from the practical stuff of incoming weather to the apparitions of dieties and omens.' - (From Rebecca Solnit's 'Excavating the Sky'.
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