Search results for "Neoanthropocene"
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Inner Archipelagos in Sicily. From Culture-Based Development to Creativity-Oriented Evolution
2020
When Covid-19 arrived in Europe from the far East, the media and experts in economics and social sciences noticed that it was the expected discontinuity in the socio-economic development process. Really, the current phase has spread since the 1960s, when the application of econometric worldwide-spread development model was going to produce social inequalities, and consumption of physical, social, and cultural resources. Some places in Italy, far from the erosive and urban context and erosive metropolitan areas, are currently isolated seeds of a new cycle of life, because of the local community identity and the strong link between human, cultural, and natural components are currently working…
Neoanthropocene Raising and Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage: A Case Study in Southern Italy
2020
Analyzing the human history on the planet, a conflictual relation was raised when humankind had started destroying the natural ecosystem and biota, and consequently, a capacity to induce environmental change has increased throughout human history in the so-called Anthropocene age. A 'noosphere'-centered civilization could produce a non-disruptive new kind of anthropocentrism. This is becoming a new context to define Neoanthropocene based on a renewed homeostatic relationship between Earth and mankind. The potential application of this theoretical approach has been tested in drafting steps of Plan of Lucania Apennines, Valdagri, and Lagonegrese National Park, in southern Italy. Drafting the …
Homo urbanus. Città e comunità in evoluzione
2022
La città è da millenni la matrice del progresso dell’umanità, ma è anche luogo delle contraddizioni di uno sviluppo senza progresso. E oggi è chiamata ad essere il progetto di futuro per la specie umana in evoluzione dall’Homo sapiens all’Homo urbanus. Il libro affronta l’Antropocene, l’era, iniziata con la rivoluzione industriale, in cui gli esseri umani sono diventati una specie dominante con un’enorme capacità trasformativa in maniera estrattiva e predatoria nei confronti della natura, comportandosi come specie imperfetta ma arrogante nel nascondere la fragilità dentro sistemi urbani troppo minerali, ecologicamente insostenibili e generatori di diseguaglianze. Abbiamo creduto di entrare …
Planning Augmented Cities in the Neoanthropocene
2020
To improve the effects of the connecting “augmented urbanism”, I have set up ten keywords able to reset spatial planning for the Augmented City in the face of the 21st century challenges. The Augmented City’s practices grow with exponential progression doubling its components, connections and impacts seen in the last years, to one incredible and disruptive acceleration. We are surrounded by thousands of practices in the spread of sensors and intelligent devices, in collaborative design and return of urban manufacturing, in explosion of creativity and increase of resilience, and several experiments in recycling of everything, fluidisation and networking of cities, and adoption of incremental…
Post-pandemic Urban Habitat in the Neoanthropocene
2022
While the eyes of most analysts had been pointed on searching the apparition of the “black swan” (Taleb 2007), waiting with fear for the arrival of an unexpected event that would generate the new crisis, nobody wanted to see the “gray rhino” (a well-known risk that we want to ignore) that had been running furiously toward us by announcing the leap in the level of the environmental crisis, the umpteenth consequence of climate change on our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic, in fact, after numerous unheard alarms (Meadows, Meadows et al. 1972; Rockström et al. 2009), was the signal that the planet sent to our species to warn us to change: 98% of the Earth (nature) rebelled against the enormous env…
Dieci gesti-barriera per le città aumentate del Neoantropocene
2022
Le città non sono solo luoghi dell'abitare. Esse sono anche potenti dispositivi creativi per attivare il diverso presente ed esplorare il futuro possibile se consentono una vita di comunità che costruisca relazioni feconde, generi sinapsi fertili, produca nuove economie e acceleri l'innovazione. Il contributo fornisce strumenti e metodi utili alla definizione della città aumentata come fattore abilitante del cambiamento verso il Neoantropocene.