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Bas HaringIntentionality separates culture from nature. A dog is intentional a fox is not; a park is intentional a forest is ...
Humans hack the landscape to be more productive and predictable. Though we have intentionally transformed the landscape since the first farmer put a seed in the ground, in the last century our efforts have become planet-scale. While we manipulate old nature through dams, planned forests and irrigation, we create a next natural landscape of highways, vast cities, and garbage dumps. How do we control these? And is control even possible?
We live in a time where everything or everyone can be upgraded or ‘pimped’. After the worldwide acceptance of plastic surgery and pimped homes, will eventually everything be pimp-able? Even our own planet.
Liam Young is a speculative architect who in his own words "operates in the spaces between design fiction and futures"....
The following essay is from Yes Naturally: How Art Saves the World available in the Next Nature store. You can visit...
Rewilding Europe is a Dutch organization which aims to the re-introduction of long-lost species in Europe's wilderness. They are starting with...