{"id":4238,"date":"2011-01-22T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2011-01-21T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T03:04:05","slug":"fourth-natures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/fourth-natures\/","title":{"rendered":"fourth natures"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Fourth Natures”<\/a> is an upcoming conference at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, which sounds like it will be quite interesting:<\/p>\n

…landscape theorist John Dixon Hunt elucidate[d] three categories of landscape first defined during the Renaissance: ‘first nature’ being wilderness, \u2018second nature\u2019 being the cultivated landscape, and \u2018third nature\u2019 being the garden, a combination of nature and culture.<\/p>\n

One might argue that over the course of the twentieth century, a \u2018fourth nature\u2019 has been evolving which expands both the scale and complexity of our landscapes. From the territorial to the nano-scale, mutant environments which fuse natural and artificial, technologic and infrastructural have been proliferating. Natures are monitored and controlled, ecologies are amplified or manufactured and interior landscapes are conditioned, with the intent of augmenting performance and responsiveness, controlling the flow of resources, monitoring data or redressing environmental imbalances. In the current scenario, the dialectic is no longer nature versus city, or natural versus artificial, but positions within a spectrum of mediation and manipulation of nature, landscape and built environment.<\/p>\n

The built and natural environments are increasingly defined by the infrastructures that sustain or monitor them, and more often than not these systems are seen as being \u2018unnatural\u2019 and imposed upon the built landscapes. Yet, it can be argued, that it is necessary to view augmenting our environment as a merging of artificial efficiency and natural logic. With that, there has been a rise in architects, landscape architects, urbanists and ecologists offering infrastructures as catalysts for organizing and defining the constructed environments, proposing scenarios in which the boundaries of built and unbuilt, mediated and natural are growing ever more complex and ambiguous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A solid and diverse list of speakers<\/a> includes Sean Lally (WEATHERS) on “The Air on Other Planets”, Janette Kim (Urban Landscape Lab\/All of the Above), Ila Berman on “Synthetic Natures and Living Machines”, Martin Felsen (Urban Lab) on “Growing Water”, Liat Margolis, Lola Sheppard (Lateral Office\/Infranet Lab), and more.<\/p>\n

The conference, which is on February 4th and 5th, is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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