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I've been interested in the cycle of everything, from nature to industry and back to nature, through organic matter to ideas. The cycle of carbon, for instance, this elementary atom of every organic molecule, of sugar, of gas, of petroleum etc. Thanks to the work done by bacteria and plants, carbon passes through every process in nature. And thanks to these processes humans take the energy needed for their activities. We are basically // | I've been interested in the cycle of everything, from nature to industry and back to nature, through organic matter to ideas. The cycle of carbon, for instance, this elementary atom of every organic molecule, of sugar, of gas, of petroleum etc. Thanks to the work done by bacteria and plants, carbon passes through every process in nature. And thanks to these processes humans take the energy needed for their activities. We are basically // | ||
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A great deal of our civilization' | A great deal of our civilization' | ||
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An American architect, William McDonough and an Austrian chemist Michael Braumgart have devised the [[Cradle to cradle]] design, which proposes the transformation of things just like as we learned in Physics, with the Law of the Conservation of Energy (" | An American architect, William McDonough and an Austrian chemist Michael Braumgart have devised the [[Cradle to cradle]] design, which proposes the transformation of things just like as we learned in Physics, with the Law of the Conservation of Energy (" | ||
+ | **Autopoiesis** | ||
- | ===Autopoiesis=== | + | 15/02 |
- | Another figure we must mention is [[Humberto Maturana]], biologist and philosopher, | + | Another figure we must mention is [[Humberto Maturana]], biologist and philosopher, |
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- | Based on the **Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth** (http:// | + | Based on the **Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth** (http:// |
- | ) I'm working on the idea of humans becoming more useful for the environment, | + | |
- | ===Humans as producers=== | + | **Humans as producers** |
Inspired by how much we can learn from plant systems, I listed a number of principles from plant universe which could be used for re-designing the human body and human relations: | Inspired by how much we can learn from plant systems, I listed a number of principles from plant universe which could be used for re-designing the human body and human relations: | ||
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- Spread and replicate as much as possible | - Spread and replicate as much as possible | ||
- Produce for the near and the far future | - Produce for the near and the far future | ||
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===Connecting people=== | ===Connecting people=== | ||
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===ARTWORKS THAT MIGHT INSPIRE YOU TOO=== | ===ARTWORKS THAT MIGHT INSPIRE YOU TOO=== | ||
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Another recent and related participatory project, was the **sunflower seeds** installation by Ai Wei Wei for the Tate Modern in London, 2010. He built a huge network of porcelain craftsmen in order to produce millions of fake sunflower seeds. He addressed the problem of (un)employment in China, reviving an old technique for centuries mastered by Chinese, the porcelain, while using a symbol of the Maoist times, the sunflower seed. Wei Wei created a massive landscape inside Tate's Turbine Hall after bringing the seeds from China. I had the fortunate chance to visit the installation last year and I was really touched by the project. The process is beautifully documented in a 15 minutes video: http:// | Another recent and related participatory project, was the **sunflower seeds** installation by Ai Wei Wei for the Tate Modern in London, 2010. He built a huge network of porcelain craftsmen in order to produce millions of fake sunflower seeds. He addressed the problem of (un)employment in China, reviving an old technique for centuries mastered by Chinese, the porcelain, while using a symbol of the Maoist times, the sunflower seed. Wei Wei created a massive landscape inside Tate's Turbine Hall after bringing the seeds from China. I had the fortunate chance to visit the installation last year and I was really touched by the project. The process is beautifully documented in a 15 minutes video: http:// | ||
- | === Mark Manders on plants=== | + | Aesthletics - playing sports as artistic practice, brainchild of artist Tom Russotti. Aesthletics acknowledges sport, especially contemporary spectator sport, as a mixture of physical activity, social interaction, |
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+ | === Mark Manders on plants=== | ||
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- | (...) We can now wonder at the ingeniousness of plants—the way they raise up their leaves to catch refreshing drops of rain and guide them down to their roots, and the fact that they have decided not to move around but to live in the same place all the time, which means they do not need to be able to see. Plus the fact that they have arranged for their fruits to be dispersed by animals or the wind. Plants have organized their existence so ingeniously that they do not even have to wake up. (Mark Manders, 2004) From: http:// | ||