To follow on from a few of the previous posts I am re-reading with my coffee (first cup, so allow for that)...
A few thoughts on our ability to adopt and adapt new
frameworks:
I think where Biomimicry and
Systems Thinking will fall down is precisely where we try
to use them as 'replacement' constructs for a manipulative
engineering strategy in a similarly limited perspective to the
tactics now failing us: in other words, incomplete integration.
We need to consider not only how to change
our technologies and policies, but equally when a tech solution is
appropriate versus when we need to rethink the larger presumptions.
Let's take an example from the early 2011
season of massive floods which have literally deluged every inhabited
continent. Obviously rescue and relief come first, but the situation has
also inspired a burst of creative responses from the planning and design
side of things: floating houses (such as the work of Koen Olthuis and Waterstudio in the
Netherlands) , even floating communities and entire cities (such as this
proposal for an Embassy of
the Drowned Nations) are predicted for the future.
