[Week3]Examples for relationship between nature & human

This week I had a very cool seminar and found it does inspire me when sharing my thoughts to others.

So I will share some examples to demonstrate the entanglement of nature and human.

1.Grey Grass-Diego Mayon

This project recorded the four-years-lasting alteration in Italy’s countryside for the Milan Expo in 2015. For possible two new highways, approximately 1,000 hectares of fertile farmland was rushed away, which was related closely with local agriculture and threatened the farming life of the Lombards.

2.Slowdown-Alex Cretey Systermans

Alex intends to express his thinking towards time and perception of time through the landscape composed by “vegetus”( in Latin, this word means plants and vigorous, dynamic and fertile) and highly-developed society. He wants to show us a strong comparison between the slow pace of nature and speedy promotion of human society.

3.Toward the mist-Kenny Hurtado

Necessary background intro: when Kenny was 10, his mother told him to have a simple and quiet life in a forest of Northern California. After 20 years, he really went to the forest of Northern California by certain circumstances. The words of his mother lingered in his mind and until she passed away Kenny had a new perspective to see this journey. The longer he spent in this forest, the more he could find himself in the scenery and the people who live here. People here are somewhat isolated from the world and connected with the land closely. People living here share a heavy emotion.

But in the past new years, the situation has changed. Normal smog, different landscape by changing weather, brown and fragile grassy hillsides and lots of immigrants due to legalization of marijuana. The longer he spent in this forest, the more he could find himself alone and isolated in any means. The trust comes into disappearing and whatever for good or bad, it is developing rapidly here.

4.The Grand Scheme-Chris Round(The Snowy Hydro Scheme)

From 1949 to 1972, Australia proposed the ” Snowy Hydro Scheme” which constructed a series of tunnels and reservoirs to divert water from the Snowwater, Euclid River and Mulan Beach River to the west through the Great Dividing Range for irrigation in the Australian interior. This project “The Grand Scheme” records the trace of the plan and the parts that the federal government is now remodelling, exploring the interaction between human and nature.

5.Theatre-Lewis Khan

She notices in the hospital there exist lots of references using the dichotomy like death and welfare, strong and weak, clinic and sensibility. Lewis tries to find a certain balance from one extreme element to another. With the continuous development of this research in Chelsea Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital, she converts her emphasis from a call to oppose the privatization of NHS to the weakness of human and their power.

So what’s this weekly article want to address?

The human could change the environment without any doubts and the environment also could bring changes to us human being may be good or bad. Just like the example of SUV in the reading, I think it’s a good advertisement which attaches nature to SUV, an artificial machine, for more benefits. I propose that labelling is in our blood, we are used to creating some nonexistent conception for these we can’t understand(which has been demonstrated in “pattern ground”). Many science subjects like physics, maths and chemistry share the same method as their research basement—setting an adjustable model to adopt the situation. It’s called taxonomy and I think the recognization of these things in our daily life is essential. If collecting adequate data involving all the understanding of nature does it mean we have already mastered the principle of nature? Cuz we could try to find and build a universal method(or system, model, anything else) and in previous years we did do that. It benefits us to realising our nature and ourselves.

Next, I have to say we could see us as a crucial part of nature but actually it isn’t. This planet has experienced countless catastrophes and disasters that could cause a human die-out if happening today. What we could only be concerned about is human being ourselves. Protecting the environment and animals in danger can be insignificant when compared with our lives. The only thing we could do is to develop our only weapon—science.

Finally, I’d like to draw a quotation as the end.

When desire releases, the path ends. Weather go right or left, the destination never be heaven.