Solutions

2019

Today’s artists express their vision by stretching far beyond the boundaries of canvas and paint. Through unorthodox juxtapositions of light, color, video, sound, and nature, artists such as Bill Fontana and the artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude create immersive experiences that require the input of a complex and highly adaptable network of collaborators—including the spectators themselves, each of whom comes away with a highly personalized experience. To succeed, this type of ambitious endeavor requires radical connectivity, an open mind, and a wide range of players. The collaboration itself and the interplay of different elements create artistic value.

Ecosystem Services, 2019

4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2010

International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection, 2013

AutopoietiX, 2020

The objective of this text is to support reforestation, rewilding, and bioremediation as an end-game environmental practice to abate atmospheric carbon and associated global pollutants. That goal includes restoring health to wild landscapes and their ecosystems while evolving an ecoDialectical praxis applicable to agroforestry, city reforestation, and metabolic architectures. The text charts a 2.7 hectare (6.6 acre) locality in Tarragona, Spain currently testing land occupancy, wilding, and ecological strategies. The experiment is emerging from Jonathan Minchin’s mixture of eco policies, appropriate technologies, and land stewardship. It involves computational generation, robotics, and AI as well as old and new agricultural methods for land/biodiversity oversight. Secondly, the experiment is dialectically anchored and extended from research in metabolic architectures vis-a-vis autopoiesis, Marxism, observation, design, bacterial deployment, and AI. The seemingly hopeless trajectory of survival — bioremedially thriving in the Anthropocene — now requires knowing history, synthetic biology, and microbial intelligences in order to potentially repair or reorient the situation wrought by climate change. To this task, Minchin’s site participates in dialectics-of-nature focused on agriculture, reforestation, and architectural tactics to come to grips with climate disruption. Further, with respect to these topics, environmental/design theory should be updated to reference Engels’s Dialectics of Nature for reforestation, rewilding, and bioremediation and then paired with citizen ecology, implemented in wildernesses and urbanisms guided by thinking, labor, technology, and computation.

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Relating Systems Thinking and Design 12, 2024

BioDiveIn is one of several interventions developed by collaborative efforts. These are testing the transition towards Post-Anthropocene and ecological aesthetics. The intervention offers multiple species habitats, edible landscapes and water pools for bats, swifts, small-sized birds, squirrels, insects and plants. The intervention (touch point) is also equipped with two QR codes—one leading to DIY recipes to multiply the installation and one to spot-a-bee application for joining the citizen science on pollinators. The intervention was codesigned through gigamapping and full-scale prototyping through an experimental systems oriented design studio course with students, invited experts and other stakeholders. It resulted in DIY events and a launch with a gardening party to accommodate the plants in the prototype.

Elisava Insights, 2020

Elisava Insights is a knowledge pack of 75 challenges faced by humans and the planet, to be used as an inspirational strategic foresight tool and as a starting point for collective dialogue and transdisciplinary synergies with stakeholders. Organized in the five transdisciplinary impact areas where Elisava Research has its expertise, we have identified challenges such as: Can we increase the potential to empathise with not just other humans, but perhaps other species and ecosystems? How do we raise awareness on the importance of empathic communication in the digital era? Which materials can help us mitigate climate change? How to promote sense-making relationships with automated machines? How to explore and experience different realities? How can design help de-growth? How can design promote democratic values and fight misinformation?