AA.inter10.11/12 extended unit brief
„…the metropolis of the information age is not, then, the capital of technology; It is rather the land of the humane, in all it‟s ability to connect it‟s own DNA with that of business, disseminating its own genes in a tight network of parental and entrepreneurial relations…‟ _ Andrea Branzi
„Is there some way I can talk about nature, and bring a certain appreciation for what it represents? „The fact that we come from nature and we have to understand what it is so as not to harm it and ultimately harm ourselves; and that there is an importance to have a certain reverence for what nature is, because we are connected to it and we are part of it and if we destroy nature we destroy ourselves. I believe this is a fundamental philosophical position when I look at the world. So I started thinking that maybe the new landscape of our times, the one to start to talk about, is the landscape that we change, the one that we disrupt in pursuit of progress; so I‟m trying to look at the industrial landscape as a way of defining who we are in our relationship to the planet . It is this new landscape that is growing and is part of our economy, is part of our politics, and it is part of how we elect our governments, it is part of everything we do; it is like a big machine that has started rolling; and I‟m not coming at it to celebrate or glorify this industry nor I‟m trying to damn it. I‟m just trying to say: “well, this is what it is”. To show those types of places allows the viewer to begin to comprehend the scale [of this machine of development]; it is another landscape, it is a landscape but it is a different landscape.‟ _ Edward Burtynsky
Workers’ City Apps The Self-Organizing City v2.0 by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto
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