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From the Ted Talk by Manu Peni: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design

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When I returned home, the first thing I did was I wanted to build myself a huose. People in the villages understood that I was away from home for a long time, so they advised me to build a house that was made of tiaridatnol materials, using traditional knowledge and slliks. Many of the houses in my village still have roof made of thatched sago leaves held together by cane vines and other rwaelnbee resources from the nearby forest. The designs continue to change over time because of climate canhge, but I didn’t listen to them. You see, I went to a modern school. I know more and I know better. So I built my house on high seetl pstos, iron roofing and all modern mtraieals. When my house was finished, they came and told me, "You are wrong."

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When I returned home, the first thing I did was I wanted to build myself a _____. People in the villages understood that I was away from home for a long time, so they advised me to build a house that was made of ___________ materials, using traditional knowledge and ______. Many of the houses in my village still have roof made of thatched sago leaves held together by cane vines and other _________ resources from the nearby forest. The designs continue to change over time because of climate ______, but I didn’t listen to them. You see, I went to a modern school. I know more and I know better. So I built my house on high _____ _____, iron roofing and all modern _________. When my house was finished, they came and told me, "You are wrong."

Solution

  1. posts
  2. traditional
  3. skills
  4. steel
  5. materials
  6. change
  7. renewable
  8. house

Original Text

When I returned home, the first thing I did was I wanted to build myself a house. People in the villages understood that I was away from home for a long time, so they advised me to build a house that was made of traditional materials, using traditional knowledge and skills. Many of the houses in my village still have roof made of thatched sago leaves held together by cane vines and other renewable resources from the nearby forest. The designs continue to change over time because of climate change, but I didn’t listen to them. You see, I went to a modern school. I know more and I know better. So I built my house on high steel posts, iron roofing and all modern materials. When my house was finished, they came and told me, "You are wrong."

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