space: me + nature
Project: Design Media Arts at UCLA
Project: Design Media Arts at UCLA
I wouldn't want much to change - maybe that's depressing or unimaginative or boring but it's the truth.
What I admire most about nature is its resilience, no matter how hard we abuse it, it always bounces back, amazingly and surprisingly (although some would argue that at this moment it may be reaching its physical limits).
After it's erruption in the 90's, the area surrounding Mount St. Helens was projected by scientists to only recover after decades, but amazingly, after only 18 months, weeds, shrubs and plants all began to sprout back to life.
The ingenuity nature displays is another aspect I find admirable; regardless of the exposures nature is subject to, given enough time it is always able to respond and tailor its configuration to adapt to a new and different circumstances (granted it may be after many trials and errors).
Ideally, the way I would incorporate nature into the space environment is by maintaining the same relationships and dynamics that already exist between it and us, humans. I would want many of the wonders and myseteries that still baffle us about to nature to be continued. I don't want to know about nature's secrets - revealing natures nifty tricks robs it of its appeal and beauty. I wouldn't want to know how processes take place or function.
Then again, I would not want to re-invent nature in space either, even if this meant providing a system with some basic rules (like Stephen Wolfram) and then letting the code or the system generate its own rules or directions - to me the resulting would still feel too artificial - us humans would assume this big brother role - like playing god.
The aspects of nature I truly appreciate are primarily the elements that cater to my physical senses - the fresh, rich smells of fennel and california sage, the feeling of walking on soil or pebbles (the trade-off of part pain and pleasure), lying on my back staring at the sky feeling like the center of the unvierse (everyone feel that way - right?) swimming in a body of water (a pool or the ocean), floating, sinking, flipping. A lot of the aspects I enjoy most are the contrasts between comfort and pain that I attribute to nature. I do not like humidity - but for this simple reason I would not want to banish atmospheric moisture in this space colony even if given the chance. The little pains are what make the sweet, comfortable moments seem so much sweeter.
I'm going to stop - because I'm not sure how much sense that made or how superficial it was -
What I admire most about nature is its resilience, no matter how hard we abuse it, it always bounces back, amazingly and surprisingly (although some would argue that at this moment it may be reaching its physical limits).
After it's erruption in the 90's, the area surrounding Mount St. Helens was projected by scientists to only recover after decades, but amazingly, after only 18 months, weeds, shrubs and plants all began to sprout back to life.
The ingenuity nature displays is another aspect I find admirable; regardless of the exposures nature is subject to, given enough time it is always able to respond and tailor its configuration to adapt to a new and different circumstances (granted it may be after many trials and errors).
Ideally, the way I would incorporate nature into the space environment is by maintaining the same relationships and dynamics that already exist between it and us, humans. I would want many of the wonders and myseteries that still baffle us about to nature to be continued. I don't want to know about nature's secrets - revealing natures nifty tricks robs it of its appeal and beauty. I wouldn't want to know how processes take place or function.
Then again, I would not want to re-invent nature in space either, even if this meant providing a system with some basic rules (like Stephen Wolfram) and then letting the code or the system generate its own rules or directions - to me the resulting would still feel too artificial - us humans would assume this big brother role - like playing god.
The aspects of nature I truly appreciate are primarily the elements that cater to my physical senses - the fresh, rich smells of fennel and california sage, the feeling of walking on soil or pebbles (the trade-off of part pain and pleasure), lying on my back staring at the sky feeling like the center of the unvierse (everyone feel that way - right?) swimming in a body of water (a pool or the ocean), floating, sinking, flipping. A lot of the aspects I enjoy most are the contrasts between comfort and pain that I attribute to nature. I do not like humidity - but for this simple reason I would not want to banish atmospheric moisture in this space colony even if given the chance. The little pains are what make the sweet, comfortable moments seem so much sweeter.
I'm going to stop - because I'm not sure how much sense that made or how superficial it was -
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