A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The Living Earth: Revenge or Celebration?
This final chapter brings together the cumulative knowledge built up throughout the book, and summarises how the regenerative-adaptive pattern language offers a holistic approach, informed by nature, to better craft and strengthen our built and natural environment for the future. The ‘knowledge of making life’ is embedded in the fractal geometry and morphological sequences of nature, and if we can establish a process and method to reconnect the human-nature relationship and secure resilience through our actions – both in planning and design practice, and in sustainable development – we can potentially be liberated. However, the chapter highlights that the Living Earth system behaves as a single, self-regulating system to support life, as emphasised by the Gaia Hypothesis (Lovelock, Atmospheric Environment 6:579–580, 1972). Facing an unprecedented changing climate and environment due to anthropogenic causes, the question remains as to whether we as humans can achieve a symbiosis with the revenge or celebration of Gaia. The chapter concludes with the fundamental pattern Giai’s Revenge [12], reminding us of the ultimate reality that we as humans are only a small part of this larger self-regulating system of Life on Earth.
The Living Earth: Revenge or Celebration?
This final chapter brings together the cumulative knowledge built up throughout the book, and summarises how the regenerative-adaptive pattern language offers a holistic approach, informed by nature, to better craft and strengthen our built and natural environment for the future. The ‘knowledge of making life’ is embedded in the fractal geometry and morphological sequences of nature, and if we can establish a process and method to reconnect the human-nature relationship and secure resilience through our actions – both in planning and design practice, and in sustainable development – we can potentially be liberated. However, the chapter highlights that the Living Earth system behaves as a single, self-regulating system to support life, as emphasised by the Gaia Hypothesis (Lovelock, Atmospheric Environment 6:579–580, 1972). Facing an unprecedented changing climate and environment due to anthropogenic causes, the question remains as to whether we as humans can achieve a symbiosis with the revenge or celebration of Gaia. The chapter concludes with the fundamental pattern Giai’s Revenge [12], reminding us of the ultimate reality that we as humans are only a small part of this larger self-regulating system of Life on Earth.
The Living Earth: Revenge or Celebration?
Sustainable Development Goals Series
Roös, Phillip B. (author)
2020-09-16
8 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Living structure , Self-regulating system , Architecture for life , Living process , Regenerative system , Degenerative system , Gaia’s revenge , Restoration , Regenerative-adaptive Environment , Sustainable Development , Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning , Urban Ecology , Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings , Earth and Environmental Science
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