How Humans And Animals Can Live Together
Hashim Sarkis, the curator of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition organized by La Biennale di Venezia, launched a striking visionary theme at the start of this yr: "How will we live together?". This fundamental question finally transcends all disciplines and opens an existential portal for humanity. Information technology does not refer only to humans but all species, the nonhuman organisms likewise.
Nosotros alive an unsustainable model of existence for the human species on this planet. The Anthropocentric perception of the world, which operates on the footing of monetizing anything alive, brought us to this very disquisitional point. Nosotros came from a narrative of inter-subjective reality, a determinism aestheticized by romantic existentialism of a binary "human" (the states) and "nature" (them) dialectic.
After living through a menstruum within the new reality that COVID-nineteen imposed, the humans' indicate of view seems to empathise the fundamental and existential need of solidarity and somewhen perceiving "solidarity with nonhuman people" (Timothy Morton). From this crack of the global financial system bubble, we can finally envision a new globe. As Charles Eisenstein pointed out: "COVID-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive agree of normality". Normality of norms and productive behaviors in service of non-regenerative systems.
The imminent collapse of our mechanistic civilization is opening the beginning of something that nosotros demand to exist brave to imagine. A future that is non the Black Mirror scenario or a catastrophic dystopia, and yep, more an illuminated opportunity to overcome the destructive relations we created with ourselves and all other species. A future to be designed right at present with new positions that embrace all species, a panarchy.
During these days of isolation, new subtle connections opened and encouraging news comes out every day. Online I have been able to read near stories of wildlife animals conquering back the urban area (in one case covered with forests), dramatic driblet-downwards in pollution, reduced consumption, unseen international solidarity, collaborative medical researches. And honestly, this is a future I desire to alive in.
The images from Venice crystalline water and even no predatory tourism is very touching. And those images are even more surprising eventually past existence existent - in a different fashion of what we thought was real, which no longer exists.
Then, to coexist with animals that are coming downtown to alive with us and encompass a new reality we demand to shift our perception from the world made but for us to an interrelated spider web of life. Cities occupied by nonhuman at first view create that strange sensation, equally it's not a identify for them, once our romantic separation of nature and culture positions artifacts equally artificial in a natural environment. That obsolete dialectic, reminiscent from the Age of Enlightenment, is withal mainly running our procedure of making architecture and designing our cities.
The last great architecture movements from the Twenty century were driven to mechanical and separation mentality, where houses are "machines for living" and our cities should function as closed systems of feedback loops with controlled inputs and outputs. In fact, the urban space is designed but for humans and eventually domesticated animals.
Eventually, megalopolises are collapsing and every petty noise in that fragile and centralized system reinforces that - it was clear during a few days of truckers strike in Sao Paulo and numerous other cases where the cities got paralyzed by inner or outer vectors.
Indeed unpredictable events would disrupt any structural organisation as any urban center as well, but how can nosotros blueprint cities and buildings that are better prepared to blot such shocks to the system and afterward be able to heal back. We are talking here almost resilience, that sustains ecosystems and its connections and operations after structural stresses. We are all living organisms in synchronic scales, as singular, symbiotic, colonial or other kinds of collaborative organizations.
A city could learn a keen deal from the forest and the ultimate technology of cooperation, diversity, redundancy, cocky-organization, networking and high engineering science that produces free energy through photosynthesis, water distribution, efficient advice, not generating waste… we are talking about a regenerative system in all dimensions. The "police of the jungle" is a partnership.
Buildings as trees and cities as forests advise an evolution of modernist compages paradigms from mechanical to organic and that changes everything. Where architecture is designed through regenerative processes that mimic ecological interrelationship.
Nosotros should at least envision such cooperative cities, imagine them as wildest dreams, where the urban environment operates "as" and "together" with other organisms. At this very moment, we urgently demand architects to project themself in time and imagine the bright future, products, buildings, and cities designed for all species.
After all, urban spaces are saved by mangroves from devastating hurricanes, microorganisms are cleaning the air, trees producing oxygen, fish and algae cleaning rivers and plenty of other species collaborating to make our cities better. This is happening all the time, we are alive thanks to other organisms, our invisible partners, not appreciated for their contribution, trying to proceed the web of life operating.
Our planet is a living organism, fabricated out of an space interdependent whole. In fact, that'south zippo new to ancestral noesis. For a long time, this data was clearly expressed past North American Native Americans, Brazilian indigenous people, wisdom from aboriginal times, till contemporary Krenak, Kopenawa and many others freed from our Matrix. Your individuality is a multiplicity, a "dividuality" and inter-connectivity with all other species that create weather condition for life.
And here comes COVID-nineteen, another organism, and then small so large. So big that, in fact, information technology can comprehend the whole planet in merely a few months, proliferating through our social relations fifty-fifty every bit a meme, cheers to our global network as a reckoner virus. Nosotros are watching a horror sci-fi apocalyptic movie, potentiated by voracious media expanding our fear and rage onto a new enemy. And again the separation story: "united states of america" (humans) and "them" (virus).
That armed services narrative tin can be seen right at present everywhere; "fighting Coronavirus" or "war against Coronavirus". In fact, you cannot fight a virus as linear causality, and less successful is that strategy, once you are dealing with a network virus deeply embedded in our global logistics. The same problem comes out of "fighting" climate crisis by cutting but fossil fuels, "fighting" terrorism with war or "fighting" clearing by closing borders and so on with no effective results. Because all those problems are rooted in our relations, to how we live together with other species, as a whole.
Coronavirus is, more than anything, an ecological crisis, intended as our capacity of agreement and feeling that everything is interconnected. Indiscriminate "war" against the microbial earth with obsessive sterilizations of everything that is alive, cut off micro biodiversity and by and then our bacterial cooperative resilience and resistance to pathogens besides.
Deforestation, massive extinction, biodiversity depletion, air and water pollution, brute domestication, industrial agriculture, pesticides and all the violence we are proportioning to Globe are the causes for this and other pandemics to come. Anthropocentric devastator state of war against life. Nosotros can not solve terrorism, famine, pandemic or global warming if we practise non reassume our ecological interrelation.
Today nosotros are living in a unique perception shift, a critical and privileged moment in homo history, and eventual ecological consciousness evolutionary opportunity. We don't need to save our collapsing world and unsustainable model of inhabiting this planet, neither our globalized economy. Today we need to be brave and dream in lucidity, nosotros need now to envision the ecological evolution of our species in coexistence with all species in a new interbeing.
Equally Nick Cave said recently in his online diary: "Perhaps, we will too meet the world through different eyes, with an awakened reverence for the wondrous matter that information technology is".
This is an edited version of Marko Brajovic's article, to encounter the full text click here.
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Cite: Marko Brajovic. "How Volition We Alive Together With All Other Species? " 18 Apr 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://world wide web.archdaily.com/937776/how-volition-we-live-together-with-all-other-species> ISSN 0719-8884
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