"There is no more throwing away…away has gone away."
-- Gertrude Stein
Studio Description:
A torrent of clichés prescribing the end is already here. Our
ecological society has formed around the possibility of the
collapse, through pollution, various floods, the greenhouse effect, overpopulation, etc. Hence, alarming criteria makes up
the roots of an environmentalist debate. Now, the gravity of
industrial errors and mishaps renders the appearance of a
new society. This is the eschatological society, a society of
the collapsed. Paul Virilio suggests this raises primary
philosophical questions. His raison d'être is; “to invent the
ship is to invent the shipwreck; to invent the airplane is to
invent the crash”. Any valuation of scientific progress implies
reciprocal accident progress. Designers converse about
inventing airplanes with a thousand seats, which then imply a
possible thousand deaths. Aristotle said, “The accident reveals
the substance,” which is to say that one cannot separate the
innovation of an object, technique, or place from its devalued
negative side. Therefore, if tomorrow’s humankind is to
flourish, what then constitutes the magnitude of our failure?
Objective:
Our goal is to create and program an Ecotarium that makes a
true spectacle of ecology. Making ecologies visible in design
technology and practice is vastly significant. We do this by
tracing the paths of nature. Our Ecotarium should cultivate
investigations within the forms of nature to retrieve the wisdom
in mosaics, connectivity, biodiversity, patches, matrices and
etc. The first signal of humanist intent is our complex
ensemble of design. Any well designed edifice demands a
supposition of possibilities and interpretations. Green design
seeks a genius loci revealed in both the struggle and the
fellowship of numerous augmented assemblies. This Ecotarium
must qualify and disseminate such practices. Qualified by
techno-scientific methods and routines, it is vital to admit that
the practice of green architecture is still at length a craft.
-- Mitchell Joachim |
