Ep. 273 The Tree Tech Book with Umair Zia | DSS Interview Series

Umair Zia is a living-systems technologist, an architect, the founder of naturegadget.com, author of an upcoming book titled,' Tree Tech: 50 Lessons for Life' (Not-a-Cult publishers), and an assistant professor at the National College of Arts, Lahore. TREE TECH | An exploration of the wisdom of the trees in 50 life lessons. Tree Tech is Umair Zia’s personal journey to establish a dialogue with these centuries-old creatures that hold some of the wisest secrets available to humanity.

It’s a thrilling and spiritual quest to understand biomimicry and the ancient technologies that these magnificent beings hold. Tree Tech is an ode to listening to those who were here before us, and will be here after us.

The lessons cover the topics of silence, love, memory, metaphor, death, originality, strength, gender, adaptability, control, consciousness, inclusivity, identity, trust, distance, confrontation, progress, contextualization, alliance, endurance, opinion, resilience, time, movement, action, happiness, feedback, collaboration, self- reliance, permanence, energy, synergy, greed, resources, space, certainty, growth, perception, diversity, land, pattern, knowledge, order, architecture, non-physicality, hierarchy, dependability, belonging, framework and scale.