[p2p-research] visionary design that would show the full potrential of integration of human habitat into environment

[Michel Bauwens]

One compelling and iconic yet very utopian example would be Vincent
Callebauts Lillypads, cities freely floating in the oceans whilst having a
flower - like symbiotic exchange with the waterworld. Another would be
Arcosanti, reducing the size of human habitat by commoning into three
dimensional structures (arcologies) and reducing the waste of time and
energy of single family homes, re-opening vast suburban land to the public
whist taking care of it. John Lyle at Pomona showed another form of
integration of living systems with architecture and Habitat in his
landlab, John Todd of New Alchemy built the archetypical "bloodstream" of
water acting as material carrier of nutricients and waste between
organically connected community functions. Village Towns by Claude Lewenz
are built around plazas, making the common place the centerpiece of
habitat.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada at reflex.at>
Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: additions to Crottorf report
To: David Bollier <david at bollier.org>
Cc: Silke Helfrich <Silke.Helfrich at gmx.de>, Michel Bauwens <
michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


Thank you for your patience. I add Silke because we are in discussion  on
"Visions of the Commons" and Michel too.

David Bollier <david at bollier.org> writes:
>
>Nahrada cited instances of design visionaries trying to use digital
>technologies
>to improve the economic autonomy of communities while enabling them to
>live in
>greater harmony with the environment.  Among them:.... [name examples]...
>
>
>If this doesn't work, I invite you to suggest an alternative lead-in
>sentence to those examples (which remain worth citing).
>
>David
>

Not only "lead in", but the examples should be individually explained as
commons. I added one. Each of them holds a pattern, but only through the
combination of those patterns will we be able to build a coherent reality.
>

"Nahrada cited instances of visionary design that would show the full
potrential of integration of human habitat into environment treatied as
commons, enabled among many other things by the connectedness through
informattion technologies.- giving humans the potential to retain their
connection while again stronly integrating into the connections of the
environment.

One compelling and iconic yet very utopian example would be Vincent
Callebauts Lillypads, cities freely floating in the oceans whilst having a
flower - like symbiotic exchange with the waterworld. Another would be
Arcosanti, reducing the size of human habitat by commoning into three
dimensional structures (arcologies) and reducing the waste of time and
energy of single family homes, re-opening vast suburban land to the public
whist taking care of it. John Lyle at Pomona showed another form of
integration of living systems with architecture and Habitat in his
landlab, John Todd of New Alchemy built the archetypical "bloodstream" of
water acting as material carrier of nutricients and waste between
organically connected community functions. Village Towns by Claude Lewenz
are built around plazas, making the common place the centerpiece of
habitat.


Franz





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