• In the past three decades, one-third of the planet’s natural resources base have been...

Oil Fields No. 19 (California) & Bao Steel #7 (Shanghai) These images are meant as metaphors...

MW - China, Factory For The World: Image #1, EB - Manufacturing #17 (Dehui City, Jilin...

CJ - Crushed Cars #3 (Tacoma) & Mixed Recycling (Seattle) Exploring around [the United...

MW - Architecture of Density: Images #a15 & #a101 Hong Kong is one of the most densely...

EB - Dam #6 (Yangtze River) The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest and most powerful...

EB - Tanggu Port (Tianjin) In one scene [of Manufactured Landscapes] we were in the largest coal...

Paul Stamets, American mycologist & author, is a passionate believer that mushrooms/funghi,...

By Murray Bookchin [Originally published in Bookchin’s newsletter Comment in 1964 and republished in the British monthly Anarchy in 1965.] I am posting part of the essay/manifesto (it can be found here in full): In almost every period since the Renaissance, the development of revolutionary thought has been heavily influenced by a branch...

Apparently neuroaesthetics are the new black, and Professor Raymond Tallis thinks it's wrong....

Andy Goldsworthy is the zen master of environmental art. His process & work possess a deep...

Nature has made a determined comeback In the 20 years since Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 turned a...

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred...

Leather Landscape (02003) silicone, acrylic, leather, human hair, clothing, timber from We Are...

A new book on the influence on art of our ability to perceive depending on the different cultural...

Freedom of Creation is a design + research company based in Amsterdam. Their designers are...

What is described by Bernard Huberman as an ‘ecology’ of information ‘characterized by...

From How supercomputers enhance our understanding of genes Biological functionality is...

Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...

I was waiting for Mona to drive her VW Beetle through the gate I had opened. We were entering...

In the 'tricity' of Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk in Poland there is a suburb with a cathedral, Oliwa...

It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...

The posts at emplaced (in What happen to nature?) and the internation initiative (in terrestrials)...

Biomimicry is a relatively new science that studies models, systems and processes from nature and...

Every molecule, atom, in our body... is self-interested... is self-aware, and determined as...