Scarcity
: architecture in an age of depleting resources / guest-edited by Jon Goodbun
with Jeremy Till and Deljana Iossifova
John Wiley
& Sons, London [etc.] : 2012.
144 p.
Nº monográfico de la revista: "Architectural
Design" Volume 82, issue 4 (july-aug. 2012)
ISBN 9781119973621
Materias:
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-711.4:504 SCA
Currently, the world is experiencing a 'perfect storm' of
social, political, economic and ecological proportions. The full extent and
severity of present conditions are yet to be determined. One thing, however, is
certain: the foreseeable future will not be like the recent past. Leading
analysts of all the major resource domains – water, food, material, energy and
finance – are all telling us that our global industrial growth models, driven
by speculation on unstable financial markets, are taking the planet to the brink
of chronic scarcity. Some of these shortages are determined by natural limits
of mineral resources, such as petroleum and coal, and others by the
mismanagement of natural resources, such as water, timber and food; a situation
that is often characterised by uneven social and geographic distribution of
supplies. In architecture, concerns about depleting material and energy sources
have largely been centered on the more emollient category of 'sustainability'.
In the next decade, however, as the situation becomes more pressing, architects
and designers will need to confront the reality of scarcity. There are many
ways that architecture, urban planning and design research can tackle such
issues: from developing new forms of analysis of global flows and scarcities,
to specific local and global design-based solutions. A full engagement with
these issues has the potential to completely reconfigure design practice in
radically new, post-sustainable directions.
- Brings together leading thinkers for the first time in a single volume: Ezio Manzini, Erik Swyngedouw, John Thackara and Jeremy Till.
- Featured architects and designers include: Jody Boehnert, Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen, and muf.
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