Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘The experiential context of the ecoself,’ digital (2025).
The ecoself is a conceptual-practical tool intended to enable humans to develop deep awareness of their context, both experiential and dimensional, so that they can tap into and fulfill their potential as interconnected members of a symbiotically creative ecoweb.
Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Ecosymbiosis within an ecoweb, depicting components of the ecoweb, the water cycle, and the energy/food cycle,’ digital (2025).
Ecosymbiotic resilience (adaptive resilience) is the ability of an ecological web (ecoweb) to tolerate (adapt itself to) a disturbance (adverse condition) and restore itself to (a new) equilibrium, mediated by Adaptation Feedback Loops involving and acting on biodiverse organisms.
Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Biodiversity in human-cultivated plants,’ digital (2025).
Humans are causing irreversible biodiversity loss (part of ecocide) through extractivist behaviors often justified by systems and frameworks that are anthropocentric ((hu)man-centric), resulting in significant harm not only to billions of humans but to all living beings and our environment.
Original Art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘The four types of Ecosystem Services,’ digital (2025).
Aspects of the multi-faceted local and global impact of FiveBecomings projects can be understood from several established lenses, including that of ecosystem services, a concept developed by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) to assess how ecosystem change affects human wellbeing.
