The idea of the mountain that we embraced with this project was never a theme but an epistemological lens, a way to redefine the perspective through which we imagine the contemporary moment, to open it up to the unexpected and to reciprocity. The encounter with the local areas made it clear that relationships are always an imperfect process, sometimes asymmetrical, often laborious.
Thinking Like a Mountain was born out of this fatigue. Not the sort of fatigue considered to be an obstacle, nor that which measures time on the basis of the logic of the result, but a relationship-based fatigue that came out of the time of listening and out of the complexity of the dialogue with the local communities, administrations, and associations; a fatigue that came out of reciprocity, expectation, negotiation, mediation.
