The Isles of the Blessed…

The Isles of the Blessed…

By Miguel Trillo

This year, OIKO LOGICA has been blessed in the Fortunate Isles.  Cabo Verde is an “island country”, a spanning archipielago of 10 islands. In these Islands of the Blessed, heroes and other favored mortals in Greek mythology were received by the gods into a winterless blissful paradise.  These islands were destiny for those, according to gods, who had chosen to be reincarnated three times, those who deserved to entrance to the Elysian Fields all three times. Fortunately to us, this was our first time to entrance blissful paradise. Not sure if we will reincarnate twice again to make it to the Elysian fields

Hairuna or The Land of The Blessed

Hairuna or The Land of The Blessed

By Miguel Trillo

Hairouna means “The Land of the Blessed” in the native Carib language. The Caribs, lived in the island before the arrival of european settlement. They mixed with enslaved Africans, who had shipwrecked or had escaped from Barbados and became known as Garifuna or Black Caribs.

New Project in Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

New Project in Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

By Miguel Trillo

OIKO LOGICA is working with Landell Mills on a new project in the Winward Island of the Caribbean. “The overall objective of this consultancy is to develop an integrated, gender-sensitive, and results-based National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS) inclusive of a poverty map (PM) to assist the Government of Saint Vincent and The Grenadines in reducing poverty and improving human development outcomes”.

oikéö

oikéö

By Miguel Trillo

OIKO LOGICA stands for “common sense of the habitat”. The word OIKO comes from OIKOUMENE, Ecumene, a term originally used in the Greco-Roman world to refer to what back then was the inhabited universe. Oikouménë in old greek is oikéö, “to inhabit”, the “inhabited world”. The Barbarians inhabited the rest of the world.

OIKO LOGICA was born to make sense of the inhabited world, even though today, it seems that our planet is much more inhabited by Barbarians…

Ptolomeus Ecumene

Ptolomeus Ecumene

By Miguel Trillo

It was only in the 15th century when global coordinate system revolutionized scientific world.

Ptolomeus’ Ecumene is a reconstruction of Geographia, a compilation of thousands of references to various parts of the old world during second century EC, including coordinates which allowed cartographers to reconstruct Ptolemy’s world view.  Maps, were created centuries later aggregating information and using for the first time longitudinal and latitudinal lines and the specifying of terrestrial locations by celestial observations.