Hailing from the North eastern state of Meghalaya in India, the Khasi community are famous for having evolved a synergistic technology of weaving living architecture by braiding tree roots of the Ficus elastica, a rubber tree into architectural structures, like bridges, plat-forms and stairs. The nature of the landscape breathes the Khasi’s culture into being . They exist in kinship and communion with the living beings with whom they share the land. They act as co-design-ers with the environment’s constitutive species and their practices offer us alternative ways to think of dwelling. Now a root bridge can take anywhere from 10-40 years to build and become structurally stable, advances in synthetic biology and genetic modification might be one way of growing bridges in shorter time spans, and is a motiva-tion to seek a collaboration between scientists and indigenous prac-titioners. The threshold between cultural and scientific knowledge lies of my research, learning from indigenous practices surmises that there are radically different ways of production, consumption and extraction as we learn to tenderly listen the syntax of nature.