Enacting Ecological Aesthetics

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  • Social and ecological transformation requires design and architecture fields to develop new, more expansive ways of thinking and acting that better engage questions of ecology. What forms of thinking and acting can work through the particular complexities of environmental crises in the contexts of design and architecture, bridging between rich ecological ideas and the practical challenges of concrete situations? This project examines how the work of anthropologist and cybernetician Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) might contribute an alternative frame of action to navigate this challenge. The project brings together scholars who are currently working with different aspects of Bateson’s work in architecture and design in Germany and the United Kingdom, affording a significantly broader engagement with this question. As early as the 1960s, Bateson argued that the environmental crisis resulted from a broader crisis of ideas and the forms of organisation that resulted from this, criticising piecemeal approaches to environmental action that address only those ‘problems’ that are identifiable and solvable. Bateson pointed to various aesthetic practices that support fuller ecosystemic engagements and speculated on how to develop a ‘systemic philosophy’ to guide human relationships with the environment. This research is supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation) grant number 508363000 and the AHRC (United Kingdom).
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Social and ecological transformation requires design and architecture fields to develop new, more expansive ways of thinking and acting that better engage questions of ecology. What forms of thinking and acting can work through the particular complexities of environmental crises in the contexts of design and architecture, bridging between rich ecological ideas and the practical challenges of concrete situations? This project examines how the work of anthropologist and cybernetician Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) might contribute an alternative frame of action to navigate this challenge. The project brings together scholars who are currently working with different aspects of Bateson’s work in architecture and design in Germany and the United Kingdom, affording a significantly broader engagement with this question. As early as the 1960s, Bateson argued that the environmental crisis resulted from a broader crisis of ideas and the forms of organisation that resulted from this, criticising piecemeal approaches to environmental action that address only those ‘problems’ that are identifiable and solvable. Bateson pointed to various aesthetic practices that support fuller ecosystemic engagements and speculated on how to develop a ‘systemic philosophy’ to guide human relationships with the environment. This research is supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation) grant number 508363000 and the AHRC (United Kingdom).
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