Project
Zayed University, UAE · Since 2016
Food Revolution
A university garden became a social lab — and a four-year study of how a food system shapes the wellbeing of everyone inside it.
→Real work with real neighbors — gardens, youth camps, cross-country exchanges. Where ME=WE stops being an idea and becomes something a community can point to.
A cross-border program in which young people called BridgeBuilders practice coherent community life in their own neighborhoods — across five countries, one shared question.
BridgeBuilder is also a stage on the practice path — see it on the Protagonist path →
A university garden became a social lab — and a four-year study of how a food system shapes the wellbeing of everyone inside it.
→Six months in which young people turned something they cared about into a social enterprise prototype — through seriously playful investigation.
→After the 2015 earthquake, youth in two countries built relationships that outlasted the program that introduced them.
→A camera followed Nepali youth for two years — not to record the program, but to see what held after it ended.
→A residential gathering for young people — creativity, adventure, and honest reflection, away from the noise of everyday life.
→Two days, one circle of women, and the same question asked a hundred small ways: what do you want to carry, and what are you ready to leave behind?
→Eighteen young people, two days, and one discovery: the shape of your own shadow can be changed by what you do.
→A project and the community it created are not the same entry — the project is the intervention; the community is what remains. See both in Community.