China

Excerpt: "RSD12: Entangled in Emergence will use four “entanglements of interest,” to group topics and submissions from multiple perspectives. These entanglements — natural, technological, political and foundational — situate systemic design and designers within the interconnected questions...

"Over 70% of the food calories that feed humanity come from annual grain crops, which occupy 60–80% of global croplands. However, annual grain dominance may be changing.

With support from The Land Institute, researchers in China’s Yunnan Province developed a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial...