Looking down from the satellite map, which dogmatic lines separate human life from the natural geological environment? What’s dying? At the macro level, mountains, rivers, and atmosphere were thrown out of human habitations, which causes Anthropocene’s dying at micro level – microbes from soil, ecological balance of rivers, and micro life in the atmosphere – the dynamic balance of ecosystem is placed by linear development and industrial wastes.
Can the inorganic urban landscape created by human beings being reorganized? Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan pointed out 5 priciple to redesign the urban landscape from the perspective of monism:
1.Solutions Grow from Place
2.Ecological Accounting Informs Design
3.Design with Nature
4.Everyone is a Designer
5.Make Nature Visible.
I find a typical case which can illustrate the above 5 priciples. The Woelab is the first African space of democratic technology in Togo, where its community of young resident inventors collectively transformed imported e-waste into a low-cost 3D printer that prints household utensils.
Reference: https://3dprint.com/266672/tongos-woelab-has-produced-over-20-3d-printers-made-from-e-waste/
