“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, March 5, 2011

Free Association Design on The Ecological Thought


Some very intense images here paired with quotations from the book. And then there's this one on the mesh. And thanks for taking me back to the floating islands of Uros in Lake Titicaca, which I visited about 20 years ago.

F.A.D. is the work of Brett Milligan in open collaboration with other entities. F.A.D. explores space, place and systems through a range of writings, experiences and design research methods.

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We would argue (as Morton and others do) that ecology is a keystone concept of the present, and as such is in need of significant unpacking. Ecology is used everywhere for any number of political, social, scientific and design agendas (witness the current nomenclature of sustainability). A good question is what currently isn’t defined along ecological descriptions? How ‘nature’ or ‘ecology’ is defined or imaged is critical to how it is engaged and manipulated. We are currently particularly active in working out what the mesh is – a process that always will be inherently provisional and incomplete, yet is so interesting and revelatory in and of itself as departure point of design speculation.

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