Living Worlds
Restored stone terraces of potatoes, maize and quinoa curving down an Andean valley in early light, farmers at work, snow peaks above.

The 2040s and 2060s · Imagined: the Andes, the 2060s · Imagined

The Terraces

The old ways keep the water.

The law of The Terraces

The old ways keep the water.

Imagine an Andean valley in the 2060s. Terraces built centuries ago are farmed again, holding water and soil on the mountain as the climate changes.

An agronomist in a brimmed hat checking soil on a restored stone terrace, snow peaks behind.

A life in The Terraces · composite, based on the record

An agronomist, sixty-two

Her grandmother farmed these terraces. She has brought them back, one wall at a time.

Meanwhile, in the same age

Futures, imagined

A coral-stone town on the Swahili coast in golden light, rooftop gardens with small solar panels and dhows coming into harbour.

Mending Town

Imagined: the Swahili coast, the 2040s

A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

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