A draft working document of a Manifesto for the park was created in collaboration with the KinShip Working Group in November 2021.
KinShip Manifesto
All living beings are interdependent.
We believe in kinship, and in the reciprocal nature of relationships between humans and all other living beings.
We believe that Tramore Valley Park is a home for all living creatures and that we all have a commitment to thrive, replenish, heal, care for and develop this home together
We believe that we hold the atmosphere in our lungs, we believe that all species have the right to clean air.
We will nurture respect for the soil by telling the history of the Tramore Valley Park site as a landfill, how it has been repurposed to develop a new kind of park for the city
We will commit to partner and engage citizens in replenishing and nurturing the natural environment of the park
We aspire to pay attention, reclaim, reconfigure, remediate and inhabit new creative thinking to climate action and behavioral change
We aspire to remember that we have a shared ecological legacy of harm, and as humans we share a responsibility to be stewards of this legacy.
We aspire to promote a vision of Tramore Valley Park as a permeable space that lives in continuity with surrounding communities.
We will tread lightly, encouraging generous, inclusive and open heartedness exchanges.