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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the(...)
Growth: from microorganisms to megacities
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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
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By bringing together the voices of a number of curators, scientists, scholars, designers, and artists, the XXII Triennale di Milano seeks to engage its visitors with questions of climate change, migration, artificial intelligence, politics, gender, labour, economics, social justice, and natural histories. This exhibition catalog highlights objects and concepts at all(...)
décembre 2019
Broken nature: design takes on human survival. XXII Triennale du Milano
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By bringing together the voices of a number of curators, scientists, scholars, designers, and artists, the XXII Triennale di Milano seeks to engage its visitors with questions of climate change, migration, artificial intelligence, politics, gender, labour, economics, social justice, and natural histories. This exhibition catalog highlights objects and concepts at all scales that reconsider humans' relationship with their environment, including research into both natural and social ecosystems. The aim is to trace design's ability to move us into a more constructive sense of indebtedness toward nature. This volume will appeal to the design community as well as a broader readership and scholars who study the sociological, economic, political, and personal ramifications of design as it relates to the environment.
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In "Self-Devouring Growth" Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which(...)
septembre 2019
Self-devouring growth: a planetary fable as told from southern Africa
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In "Self-Devouring Growth" Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth, we may be unknowingly consuming our future.
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Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature—nor because they were unaware of the serious damage(...)
novembre 2018
The environment: a history of an idea
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Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature—nor because they were unaware of the serious damage they had done. What people lacked was an idea: a way of imagining the web of interconnection and consequence of which the natural world is made. Without this notion, we didn’t have a way to describe the scale and scope of human impact upon nature. This idea was "the environment." Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin trace the emergence of the concept of the environment following World War II, a period characterized by both hope for a new global order and fear of humans’ capacity for almost limitless destruction. It was at this moment that a new idea and a new narrative about the planet-wide impact of people's behavior emerged, closely allied to anxieties for the future. Now we had a vocabulary for talking about how we were changing nature: resource exhaustion and energy, biodiversity, pollution, and—eventually—climate change. With the rise of "the environment," the authors argue, came new expertise, making certain kinds of knowledge crucial to understanding the future of our planet.
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En 1972, quatre jeunes scientifiques du MIT rédigent à la demande du Club de Rome un rapport qu’ils intitulent « The Limits to Growth ». Celui-ci va choquer le monde. Pour la première fois, leur recherche établit les conséquences dramatiques sur le plan écologique d’une croissance économique et démographique exponentielle dans un monde fini. Leur analyse repose sur le(...)
août 2017
Les limites à la croissance (dans un monde fini)
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En 1972, quatre jeunes scientifiques du MIT rédigent à la demande du Club de Rome un rapport qu’ils intitulent « The Limits to Growth ». Celui-ci va choquer le monde. Pour la première fois, leur recherche établit les conséquences dramatiques sur le plan écologique d’une croissance économique et démographique exponentielle dans un monde fini. Leur analyse repose sur le modèle « World3 », qui permet une simulation informatique des interactions entre population, croissance industrielle, production alimentaire et limites des écosystèmes terrestres.
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août 2017
Construire avec l'immatériel
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Sous la pression des grandes transitions et des aspirations de tous, l'architecture doit aujourd'hui assumer des responsabilités nouvelles, mais difficilement maîtrisables : participer à une lutte cruciale pour l'adaptation de l'habitat et des villes au changement climatique, réguler l'emploi de la matière et de l'énergie, écouter les besoins des sociétés, affronter une(...)
Construire avec l'immatériel
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Sous la pression des grandes transitions et des aspirations de tous, l'architecture doit aujourd'hui assumer des responsabilités nouvelles, mais difficilement maîtrisables : participer à une lutte cruciale pour l'adaptation de l'habitat et des villes au changement climatique, réguler l'emploi de la matière et de l'énergie, écouter les besoins des sociétés, affronter une urbanisation sans commune mesure... L'ensemble de ces transitions pose la question d'un nécessaire renouvellement des ressources de l'architecture, dessine les contours d'un changement complet de paradigme. Car ces ressources ne sont pas seulement matérielles – matériaux et techniques – mais immatérielles. Les textes de cet ouvrage, écrits par des architectes dont l'autorité est fondée sur l'expérience, ouvrent une réflexion sur ces ressources immatérielles qu'il est crucial aujourd'hui de réintroduire dans la pensée architecturale.
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Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhance readers’ understanding of the shape, growth, and life of urban settlements of all sizes—from the remote town of Namche(...)
septembre 2018
City unseen
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Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhance readers’ understanding of the shape, growth, and life of urban settlements of all sizes—from the remote town of Namche Bazaar in Nepal to the vast metropolitan prefecture of Tokyo, Japan. Using satellite data, the authors show urban landscapes in new perspectives. The book’s beautiful and surprising images pull back the veil on familiar scenes to highlight the growth of cities over time, the symbiosis between urban form and natural landscapes, and the vulnerabilities of cities to the effects of climate change.
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septembre 2018
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The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Surrounded by fierce seas and shrouded by clouds and mist, the islands seem to mark the edge of the known world. And yet they are a center for energy technology innovation, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel networks, attracting the interest of venture capitalists(...)
Energy at the end of the world
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The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Surrounded by fierce seas and shrouded by clouds and mist, the islands seem to mark the edge of the known world. And yet they are a center for energy technology innovation, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel networks, attracting the interest of venture capitalists and local communities. In this book, Laura Watts tells a story of making energy futures at the edge of the world.
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A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization.
Energy and civilization: a history
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A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization.
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Récemment, de nombreuses publications ont traité du changement climatique et des questions environnementales du point de vue global. Parallèlement, on assiste à un intérêt croissant pour les architectures d’objets connectés. ''Mauvais temps'' a pour ambition d’allier ces deux phénomènes en une même suite d’interrogations : le bouleversement généralisé du temps compris(...)
août 2018
Mauvais temps : anthropocène et numérisation du monde
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Récemment, de nombreuses publications ont traité du changement climatique et des questions environnementales du point de vue global. Parallèlement, on assiste à un intérêt croissant pour les architectures d’objets connectés. ''Mauvais temps'' a pour ambition d’allier ces deux phénomènes en une même suite d’interrogations : le bouleversement généralisé du temps compris comme temporalités, époque et climat. Cette réflexion se présente comme une façon d’échapper à ces gardiens du temps que sont les déterminismes aussi bien technologiques, économiques, qu’écologiques. Elle permet d’ouvrir la question des temporalités dans l’Anthropocène. ''Mauvais temps'' présente notre actualité comme autant de lignes de fuite à explorer, de possibles à revisiter, de partages du sensible à réinventer.