My primary aim is to produce a piece that will encourage individuals to consider his or her “responsibility to place”. I hope my reader will evaluate his or her “location”; in what domain does he or she exist and how does one positively contribute to or detract from this place?
There is an underlying question of individual power here; my assumption is that many people feel little responsibility to place because they are disconnected and disempowered. I would like to explore how, through the concept of stewardship, one might be brought back to both a connexion to place and implicit responsibility for its well-being (and, by extension, one’s own).