The closed world of ecological architecture

Anker, Peder

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“…While the home is often imagined as a key space in which to manage and regulate individual consumption,101 it also functions as a space of imagined self‐sufficiency for weathering eco‐catastrophe. Historian of science and design, Peder Anker suggests that a number of ‘ecological architecture’ projects from the 1960s onward have often put forward proposals for sustainable living that are based on a relatively questionable parallel to autonomous or ‘spaceship’ technologies 102. Many of the imaginaries and proposals for adaptation within climate‐change imaginaries draw on the 1960s and 1970s living experiments, including Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes,103 Jack and Nancy Todds' systems for ‘living machines’ that encompass food, energy, and shelter,104 and Ken Yeang's green skyscrapers 105…”

Section: Adaptation: Imagination By Degreementioning

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“…While the Flock House perhaps embodies many of the adaptive technologies that are characteristic of attempts to deal with resource shortages and infrastructure collapse, at the same time these technologies are packaged in a self‐contained mobile architecture that lacks context. Anker suggests that such approaches to self‐sufficiency, or developing architectures that are ‘closed loops’, where the domicile floats free of worldly constraints and concerns may limit our ability to consider how living consists more of joined up cultural, political, and even aesthetic matters 102…”

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confidence: 99%

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Climate change and the imagination

Yusoff

Gabrys

2011

WIREs Climate Change

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This review article surveys the complex terrain of the imagination as a way of understanding and exploring the manifestations of anthropogenic climate change in culture and society. Imagination here is understood as a way of seeing, sensing, thinking, and dreaming that creates the conditions for material interventions in, and political sensibilities of the world. It draws upon literary, filmic, and creative arts practices to argue that imaginative practices from the arts and humanities play a critical role in thinking through our representations of environmental change and offer strategies for developing diverse forms of environmental understanding from scenario building to metaphorical, ethical, and material investigations. The interplay between scientific practices and imaginative forms is also addressed. Thematically, this review addresses the modalities of climate futures, adaptive strategies, and practices of climate science in its study of key imaginative framings of climate change. WIREs Clim Change 2011 2 516–534 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.117 This article is categorized under: Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts

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Section: Adaptation: Imagination By Degreementioning

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Section: Adaptation: Imagination By Degreementioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change and the imagination

Yusoff

Gabrys

2011

WIREs Climate Change

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108

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“…The literature on eco-homes largely focuses on innovative grassroots projects such as those attempting to create an ideal autonomous environment which shields them from a changing climate Anker (2005); developments by eco-idealists (Fairlie, 1996;Pickerill & Maxey, 2009); environmental education centres, (Centre for Alternative Technology, 1995;Conrad, 1996;Seyfang, 2010); co-housing projects (Franklin et al, 2011;Marsden et al, 2010); and charities (Lovell, 2008;Smith, 2005Smith, , 2007. Pickerill (2012) has undertaken comparisons of grassroots eco-villages in Britain, Spain, Thailand, Argentina, and the USA; while Lovell (2005) and Williams (2008Williams ( , 2011 engage with policy initiatives and seek to understand how lessons from the niche may impact the mainstream.…”

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Living-With Others, Living-With an ‘Eco-Home’: From Frustration to Transformation in an Eco-Development

Jones

2013

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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This paper considers how 'ordinary' families and individuals who would not consider themselves to have 'environmental values' or undertake sustainable practices are being transformed through 'living-with' eco-homes. The transformative process is unpicked, showing that frustrations with eco-developments not being 'eco-enough' may be more influential on the evolution of environmental values than the components of an eco-home which are prescribed and assessed by policy-makers. The findings are based on a single case study-the extension of Allerton Bywater in West Yorkshire, England. As a Millennium Community, the 520 dwellings were designed to the BRE EcoHomes standard 'Excellent'. The development was first inhabited in 2007 and the fieldwork for this research was conducted in 2007-2008 while inhabitants were getting acquainted with their eco-homes and adjusting to new ways of living. While other research focuses on scripting, appropriation and normalization, this research proposes the concept of 'living-with' as a model for understanding transformation in sustainable practices. The in-depth interviews were undertaken with couples and neighbours who shed new light on how individuals incentivize and motivate one another in the uptake of new sustainable practices, thus demonstrating the contingent and contextual embeddedness of sustainable practices.

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“…They were to be fully detached, like a Noah's Ark, from the ill-treated ecosystem on Earth. These somewhat fantastic ideas were important to ecological methodology as the 'carrying capacity' concept used for spaceships later were adopted by environmentalists in their understanding and management of Spaceship Earth (Anker 2005). In public debates, space colonies came to represent the rational, orderly and wisely managed contrast to the irrational, disorderly and ill-managed Earth.…”

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