Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Communities are motivated to implement FiveBecomings to experience life-changing transitions,’ digital (2026).
The real possibilities afforded by a FiveBecomings project greatly motivate Indigenous/rural people to help implement a shared vision for an equitable and regenerative future that enables them to experience many types of life-changing transitions impossible in the mainstream extractivist system.
Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Poverty as a result of communities being severed from their ecowebs,’ digital (2025).
The mainstream defines poverty in terms of low income, advocating for interventions that increase monetary livelihoods. Conversely, FiveBecomings’ approach to alleviate poverty is to enable communities to themselves fulfill their basic needs by restoring their ecosymbiotic self-reliance, thus bypassing money.
Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Fulfilling basic needs through ecosymbiotic self-reliance,’ digital (2025).
Ecosymbiotic self-reliance enables communities to sustainably procure from the ecowebs they inhabit the resources required to produce the Commodities/Services (C/S) that fulfill the community’s basic needs, which encompass not only tangible objects but intangibles like dignity, connectedness, and meaning.
Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘The Ādi-Knowtep of each ecosymbiotic community is rooted in the community’s ecoweb and their collective and individual ecoselves,’ digital (2025).
Revitalizing the Ādi-Knowtep (ancient Indigenous Knowledge-Technologies-Practices) and identities of human communities, along with the biodiversity of their ecowebs, is essential in (re-)establishing community ecosymbiotic resilience and, thus, the interconnected wellbeing of humans and ecologies (ecosymbiotic wellbeing).
