[p2p-research] Doors of Perception: March 2010 - Who will control global urine flows?

Wed Jun 23 20:15:36 CEST 2010

I'd say at any given time, across the face of the globe, growth is
most appropriate in some spaces, while not appropriate at all in
others. The question is "growth of what, and when, and where, and
why?".

For instance, what about "growth" of urban food production? One could
argue for it in many ways. By the same token, one could argue against
"growth" of surburban development in many ways.

Natural ecologies take advantage of growth when appropriate, and
adjust to slow it down when appropriate. Think of how a landscape
fills in with just a few rapidly propagating species after a fire,
then growth slows down and stabilizes into diverse brush and small
tree ecology, then more diverse and even slower forest ecology. (The
same happens in ocean coral reefs over time)

Human (and natural) ecologies worldwide are too complex to argue for
or against "growth" in a blanket way.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Paul B. Hartzog
<paulbhartzog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michel
> I've spent most of my career arguing the when's and why's of growth
> vs. steady-state economies (Herman Daly, et al).
> It has become so second-nature to me that it's so much tacit knowledge
> I often forget to even say anything about it.
>
> Not everyone yet realizes that we are in a phase where we need
> steady-state economics.
>
> Would you like me to write something up like my bow-tie intro, a
> growth vs. steady-state economics intro?
>
> thx
> -p
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dearall,
>>
>> see the first items on food policy below,
>>
>> also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqwd_u6HkMo&feature=player_embedded#
>>
>> Sam, Paul: "somebody" who read one of your joint essays said, "it seems that
>> they are not critical about growth" ...
>>
>> this strikes me as most likely incorrect, or perhaps you just didn't discuss
>> that particular issue in what they read ... (sorry, this was in a
>> confidential email, can't say who or what they read ...)
>>
>> but it would be interesting to have your views on that,
>>
>> Michel
>>
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>> Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:15 AM
>> Subject: Doors of Perception: March 2010 - Who will control global urine
>> flows?
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>>
>> Doors of Perception Report
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>> Who will control global urine flows?
>> March 2010
>>
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>> THIS MONTH’S HIGHLIGHTS
>> Food and finance- - - Food and "poor washing" - - - Who will control global
>> urine flows? - - - Energy follows its bliss - - - Defence spending and
>> culture
>> spending - - - Our doomsday machine economy - - - How to tell a design story
>> - - - The art of mediated presence - - - Book events in The Netherlands - -
>> -
>> Simultaneity in Vienna - - - Connected community design in Glasgow - - -
>> Microbanker on a bike - - - Green map iphone app - - - Fashion Futures - - -
>> Sex
>> and Drugs book offer - - - Ludicrous architecture - - - Film about game
>> design -
>> - - technology for development - - - Doors of Perception Portfolio
>>
>> **** **** **** **** ****
>>
>> ] FIVE COMPLICATED ISSUES AND A SIMPLE VIDEO
>>
>> FOOD AND FINANCE (COMPLEX ISSUE 1)
>> Which country do you suppose receives the largest amount of food aid right
>> now? Haiti, after its terrible earthquake? Somalia perhaps, or Zimbabwe, in
>> sub-Saharan Africa? The answer is: the United States. The cost of its food
>> stamps programme will top $60 billion during 2010. The number of US citizens
>> receiving food stamps has reached 35 million and the program is growing at
>> 20,000 people a day. The cost of feeding poor US citizens is five times the
>> $12 billion it would cost to address malnutrition for 90 percent of the
>> world's most malnourished children - except that this smaller number is not
>> being spent. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reports that less than two
>> percent
>> of development and emergency aid actually addresses malnutrition. What is
>> one
>> to make of, or do about, these grim and perplexing numbers? A first step
>> would
>> be the read the latest issue of the Food Ethics Council journal; it's all
>> about food and finance.
>> http://tiny.cc/YiAH3
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/us/03foodstamps.html?hp
>> http://tiny.cc/br35e
>> http://www.doctorswithoutbordersdonations.org/publications/reports/2009/MSF-Malnutrition-How-Much-is-Being-Spent.pdf
>> http://tiny.cc/O2T2g
>> http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/system/files/fec%205-1%201-3_0.pdf
>>
>> FOOD AND "POOR WASHING" (COMPLEX ISSUE 2)
>> Proponents of genetically engineered crops insist that they will increase
>> yields
>> to end hunger, reduce costs, and improve the livelihoods of farmers and poor
>> people. It's less frequently mentioned that these crops will be grown from
>> seeds
>> owned and controlled by private companies. Hence the term "poor washing", in
>> which the interests of poor people are cited in support for a new green
>> revolution, especially in Africa. The Alliance for a Green Revolution in
>> Africa
>> (AGRA), for example, states that its aims are "to achieve a food secure and
>> prosperous Africa through the promotion of rapid, sustainable agricultural
>> growth based on smallholder farmers". It all sounds well-meaning and
>> innocuous,
>> but critics charge that AGRA and the Gates Foundation (AGRA is the Gates
>> Foundation biggest grantee, with over $262 million committed) are glossing
>> over
>> the forced displacement of populations, and privatisation of food, that this
>> new
>> green revolution entails. "AGRA and its biggest benefactor speak about 'land
>> mobility' - but this means moving farmers off their farms so the land can be
>> used for large scale mechanized agriculture...there is no mention of where
>> these
>> people will go and live, and how they will be reemployed". Read more here:
>> The Future Control of Food edited by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte.
>> http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=310
>> Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa:
>> http://www.agra-alliance.org/
>> Voices from Africa: African farmers and environmentalists speak out  against
>> a
>> new green revolution in Africa, edited by Anuradha Mittal with Melissa Moore
>> http://tiny.cc/OEabi
>> http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/voicesfromafrica/pdfs/voicesfromafrica_full.pdf
>> Greenwashing and poor washing:
>> http://tiny.cc/RAYTR
>> http://crossedcrocodiles.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/agra-monsanto-gates-green-washing-poor-washing/
>> Africa’s Land and Family Farms – Up for Grabs? by Joan Baxter
>> http://tiny.cc/Tx6Sf
>> http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/02/africas-land-and-farms-up-for-grabs/
>>
>> WHO WILL CONTROL WORLD URINE FLOWS?  (COMPLEX ISSUE 3)
>> The complexity, interdependence, and monopoly control of food systems is one
>> reason they are not resilient: disruption to one element disrupts the whole.
>> The
>> same goes for sewage systems. The sanitary revolution tranformed public
>> health,
>> but there are increasing doubts about the long term sustainability of
>> large-scale, centralised, water-based sanitation. The highly inflexible
>> nature
>> of existing sanitation systems, burdened with over a century of capital
>> infrastructure investment, and assets that require 30-50 years to pay back,
>> make
>> centralised sanitation both economically unsustainable and institutionally
>> rigid. Large-scale sewage systems also waste a valuable resource:
>> phosphorous.
>> Phosphorus is an important element for many essential processes in the body.
>> In
>> combination with calcium it's necessary for the formation of bones and
>> teeth.
>> But mining phosphorus for food fertilizer is consuming the mineral faster
>> than
>> geologic cycles can replenish it. Urine is a potential source of the
>> mineral. So
>> far, there is no indication that Bill Gates wants to monopolise world
>> supplies
>> of urine: this may be because it's complicated to do so. To capture, value,
>> and
>> reuse urine requires a multi-dimensional transformation in how we think
>> about
>> and treat sewage. Technologies, regulations, business models - and
>> especially
>> attitudes and behaviour - all have to change. Dena Fam, a design researcher
>> at
>> the Institute for Sustainable Futures in Sydney, is involved in some
>> facinating
>> projects to 'close the phosphorus' loop locally. "Sewage is a resource, not
>> a
>> waste product", Fam explains, "yet conventional sanitation systems struggle
>> to
>> capture, recycle and reuse sewage constituents in sustainable ways". Fam and
>> her
>> colleagues will pilot urine diversion, recovery and reuse at UTS with the
>> aim of
>> illuminating the interdependent factors that determine successful uptake and
>> potential scale-up of radical sustainable urban sanitation. Read more at:
>> 'The challenge of system change - analysis of Sydney's sewer system'
>> in Design Philosophy Papers 3/2009
>> http://tiny.cc/1aYMx
>> http://www.isf.uts.edu.au/publications/fametal2009challengesystemchange.pdf
>>
>> ENERGY FOLLOWS ITS BLISS (COMPLEX ISSUE NUMBER 4)
>> "Industrial civilization is a complicated thing" understates John Michael
>> Greer
>> in his blog this week,"and its decline and fall bids fair to be more
>> complicated
>> still. But both rest on the refreshingly simple foundations of physical
>> law".
>> Greer uses the behaviour of a cup of coffee to explain why projects to
>> replace
>> for fossil fuels using sunlight, or any other readily available renewable
>> energy
>> source, or nuclear, are doomed to fail. "People don't realize", adds Greer,
>> "that when a plane full of tourists flies from LA to Cairo so they can visit
>> the
>> Great Pyramid, that one flight uses as much energy as it took to build the
>> Great
>> Pyramid". He's right, I didn't realize that. There's so much to realize
>> these days.
>> http://tiny.cc/VN1W9
>> http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/02/energy-follows-its-bliss.html
>>
>> DEFENCE SPENDING VS CULTURE SPENDING  (COMPLEX ISSUE NUMBER 5)
>> A few weeks back I was talking to Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, a partner in the
>> Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta, when we were drowned out by the roar
>> of a
>> Eurofighter passing overhead. "One of those costs the same as a medium-sized
>> opera house", Kjetl observed drily. Kjetl's throwaway comment prompted me to
>> start looking for numbers comparing military versus cultural spending on a
>> country-by-country basis. In round numbers, Germany appears to spend 25,000
>> euros per person on defence, versus about 100 euros per head on culture. I
>> have
>> to assume that the gap in the US and UK, were the numbers to be available,
>> would
>> be a good deal wider. Time to despair? Not necessarily. Read more at:
>> http://tiny.cc/O15cN
>> http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2010/03/culture_cuts.php
>>
>> WHY OUR GDP-CHASING ECONOMY IS A DOOMSDAY MACHINE (THIS ONE IS EASY)
>> This one's easy: watch this New Economics Foundation video.
>> http://tiny.cc/MSywB
>>
>> ]      DOORS OF PERCEPTION STUFF
>>
>> HOW TO TELL A DESIGN STORY
>> I spent a terrific day in Falmouth, England last week with 60
>> about-to-graduate
>> design students. They are preparing to present their work at an important
>> exhibition, and I was one of the guests invited to act as a friendly critic
>> of
>> their plans. I pleaded: don't plaster your exhibiton space with 60
>> portfolios,
>> because visitors, dazed by hundreds of portfolios elsewhere in the show,
>> will
>> blank out. Over the years I have often seen years of work by design
>> researchers
>> wasted, or at least ignored, because they did not communicate well. If
>> you're
>> about to graduate, here are a couple of stories about such near-disasters,
>> followed by 15 tips for design research presentations.
>> http://tiny.cc/ay7W5
>> http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2002/11/does_your_desig.php
>>
>> THE ART OF MEDIATED PRESENCE
>> ICT developers have been working on videocommunication since 1946 - but the
>> experience still sucks. If massive amounts of bandwidth are not the answer,
>> are
>> there more artful ways to enhance remote communication? Preparations for the
>> ElectroSmog International Festival for Sustainable Immobility in Amsterdam
>> (and
>> the internet) are gathering pace. Doors of Perception has agreed to co-host
>> a
>> session on Friday 19 at deBalie, in the afternoon (13h-15h). Our focus will
>> be
>> on practical design and artistic steps that could be taken right now. Our
>> panel
>> will includes Martin Butler, a dancer and choreographer; an Alternate
>> Reality
>> Game designer; and Caroline Nevejan. a founder alumnus of Doors who recently
>> completed a PhD on expert on witnessed presence. (See following story).
>> http://www.electrosmogfestival.net/news/
>>
>> DID YOU SEE ME?
>> The performing arts conjour up the presence of someone who is not there
>> using
>> words, lighting, orchestration, and choreography. They've done so for
>> centuries.
>> Technology-mediated presence confronts similar design challanges to the
>> performing arts: how to set a context, how to induce attribution, how to
>> show
>> the unsaid, and more. Caroline Nevejan is guest editing a special issue of
>> the
>> journal AI and Society on the theme Witnessed Presence, and invites papers
>> from
>> engineering, social science, philosophy, architecture, psychology, art &
>> design,
>> performance arts, IT.
>> http://tiny.cc/njjsT
>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~nevejan/index.php5
>> http://www.being-here.net/
>>
>> ME, AND MY EVER-EVOLVING BOOK, IN NEDERLAND
>> Rule one in book publishing (where I worked for ten years) is: promote your
>> own
>> book, because nobody else will do so with as much commitment. In that
>> spirit,
>> please note that my new book, Plan B, is now out in Dutch. I use the word
>> "new"
>> here in a contemporary, post-linear sense. Although Plan B is based on In
>> the
>> Bubble: Designing In A Complex World, which was published by MIT Press, this
>> latest version is much changed: I reduced the original English text by half,
>> to
>> 45,000 words, and then added five new chapters on: Sustainability; Metrics;
>> Food; Development; and Telepresence. This prompted my publisher, SUN, to go
>> with
>> the title of the Brazilian edition, Plan B. I'll talk about its content
>> (and hopefully debate with you) at the following three events:
>> Wednesday 17 March: 17h (time to be confirmed) Lecture/debate with Marcus
>> Fairs, Design Academy Eindhoven;
>> Thursday 18 March: Book presentation at Nederlaands Architectuurinstituut
>> (NAi) early evening;
>> Friday 19 March: Electrosmog at deBalie 13h; Plan B presentation at de Balie
>> 16h.
>> http://tiny.cc/e0aWC
>> http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/publicity/news.html#4b8d06ea28d495.26988266
>> or just buy the book at:
>> http://tiny.cc/XnxqI
>> http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/catalogue/categori/sun-statements/plan_b_9789085067870.html
>>
>>
>> ]   OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
>>
>> SIMULTANEITY IN VIENNA (CONFERENCE 19 MARCH)
>> "Gone is the time where can just focus on technology, or political change,
>> or
>> personal change. The challenge of the times require tackling all aspects of
>> change simultaneously". Thailand-based Michel Bauwens, founder of the Peer
>> to
>> Peer Foundation, always has something wise and interesting to say. His
>> keynote
>> talk at the Lift conference in Vienna on 19 March is about "an integrative
>> approach to enabling open infrastructures (and) value-driven social
>> practices... we need to change ourselves, as well as our ability to
>> cooperate
>> in groups".
>> http://tiny.cc/n0ZaZ
>> http://liftconference.com/lift-at-home/events/2010/03/lift-austria/program
>>
>> GREEN GORILAZ (CONNECTED COMMUNITY DESIGN)
>> Congratulations to Ian Grout, their professor, and a team of students from
>> the
>> Glasgow School of Art : they are this year's overall national winners for
>> ‘Sustain our Nation’ – a competition run by the Audi Design Foundation that
>> challenged young designers to create design-led social enterprises.
>> Glasgow's
>> winning project, Green Gorillaz, sets out to to create a connected community
>> within the Wyndford estate of North West Glasgow.
>> http://tiny.cc/TmDoD
>> http://getgoglasgow1.org/getgoglasgow/Welcome.html
>>
>> BANKERS ON BIKES (MICROFINANCE VIDEO)
>> Andrew Hinton has made a short film about a banker opening up access to
>> money to
>> rural communities. Two-thirds of India’s one-billion-plus population live in
>> the
>> nation’s 600,000 villages, and South Indian bank manager J S Parthiban set
>> out
>> to to improve their economic circumstances. He encouraged beggars to open
>> bank
>> accounts in New Delhi, and pioneered micro-loans to villagers in his home
>> state
>> of Tamil Nadu. "Microfinance is not without its detractors" says Hinton,
>> "but
>> Parthibhan is a man operating with a real sense of conviction and purpose".
>> Hinton's film was one of the winners of the BRITDOC/Co-operative Competition
>> "It's Good To Know"
>> http://www.vimeo.com/8758822
>>
>> THINK GLOBAL, MAP LOCAL (GREEN MAP IPHONE APP)
>> Green Map System proposes a new
>> way to answer the question: "What's Green Nearby?" A mobile version of Open
>> Green Map enables you to interact with the world from "a unique perspective
>> that
>> is ideal for any internet-enabled phone". What’s Green Nearby?™ provides an
>> array of green living resources, arranged with those nearest you first.
>> http://www.greenmap.org/
>>
>> FASHION FUTURES (RESEARCH PROGRAMME LAUNCHED)
>> The stated aim of Fashion Futures, a joint project between Forum for the
>> Future
>> and Levi Strauss & Co, is to "put the global fashion industry on the path to
>> a
>> sustainable future". Fashion Futures 2025 describes four scenarios of what
>> the
>> world could be like in 2025, and asks: How will the industry react to
>> shortages
>> of cotton and other raw materials? How could the fashion workforce be
>> affected
>> by shifting supply chains and technological development? How might
>> technology
>> influence fashion and change the way it is produced and sold? As the project
>> evolves, all materials will be available to download and use free of charge.
>> http://tiny.cc/2802v
>> http://www.forumforthefuture.org/projects/fashion-futures
>>
>> SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL (NOW AVAILABLE)
>> Ted Polhemus is an insightful and entertaining ethnographer of popular
>> culture.
>> Ted's latest chronicle, "sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, protest, architecture,
>> design, streetstyle 1947-2022" ranges from ‘Sweet Sixteen’ to Grey Power,
>> Playboy to Punk, the rise and fall of suburbia, and beyond. Ted wants to put
>> his
>> new text out there before it is incarnated in physical form, so If you want
>> a
>> free digital copy email ted.polhemus@ dsl.pipex.com. If you are a book
>> publisher, or exhibition or tv producer, and you don't know Ted's work, you
>> are
>> missing out:
>> http://tiny.cc/JJVnh
>> http://www.tedpolhemus.com/main_homepage461.html
>>
>> LUDICROUS ARCHITECTURE (LANGUAGE POLICE CAUTION NEW BOOK)
>> A new book poses an intriguing question: what connects the design of a board
>> game, an athletic competition in a stadium, a videogame, an Alternate
>> Reality
>> Game, a location-based mobile game, or any combination thereof? Sadly, the
>> author of Toward a Ludic Architecture dampens my interest by telling me that
>> his
>> main question is "How are play and games architected?" - because architected
>> is
>> not a word. I am further dispirited to read that the author is available for
>> "conceptual design consultancy". Insofar as "conceptual design" has any
>> meaning,
>> which is not very much, it means that the designer is divorced from the real
>> world. But Ian Borden, a heavyweight architecture professor, says the book
>> is
>> "indispensable reading for anyone interested in the joyful qualities of
>> cities
>> and architecture” - so you be the judge.
>> http://tiny.cc/YAom3
>> http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/content/toward-ludic-architecture
>>
>> PLAYMAKERS (FILAM ABOUT DESIGN AND GAME PLAY)
>> I often think that we should all just play more rather than write books or
>> make
>> films about the subject. But I'm on weak ground here: we once organised a
>> big
>> Doors of Perception conference on the subject. This must be why NESTA,
>> thinkpublic and Hide&Seek have invited me (and by extension, you) you to the
>> London Premiere of playmakers. This 35 minute documentary is the culmination
>> of
>> a six month project in which film maker Ivo Gormley followed the progress of
>> designers Alex Fleetwood and Holly Gramazio as they developed a new game.
>> Following the screening Gormely, Gramazio and Fleetwood will be in a
>> discussion
>> chaired by Margaret Robertson.
>> http://playmakerspremiere.eventbrite.com/
>> http://tiny.cc/jy6pm
>> http://museum.doorsofperception.com/doors5/doors5index.html
>>
>> GOOD INTENTIONS, AWFUL LANGUAGE (TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT)
>> The aim of Kopernik, a new non-profit venture, is to "provide life-changing
>> technology to the poor". I do not doubt that Kopernik is well-intentioned -
>> but
>> I'm afraid that anyone who talks about "the poor" risks losing my vote. As
>> with
>> "the elderly" or "the disabled", this use of language dehumanises the people
>> it
>> refers to. Whatever: Kopernik makes technology designed for the developing
>> world
>> accessible through the Internet by harnessing the power of individual
>> donations.
>> Products in the scheme include the life straw for water purification, the
>> solar
>> powered lamp, and self-adjusting eye glasses. “By providing individuals with
>> a
>> way to donate directly towards the purchase of the products, we're creating
>> a
>> more efficient supply chain from manufacturer to recipient without getting
>> bogged down in the inefficiencies of large agencies that have historically
>> acted as the go-between."
>> http://www.thekopernik.org/
>>
>> WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO? (DOORS OF PERCEPTION PORTFOLIO)
>> Bulb-planting has started early at Doors HQ: We've posted summary
>> descriptions
>> of the last ten years' Doors of Perception projects - the idea being that we
>> plan to do more projects like these ones, only better. All City Eco Lab
>> posts
>> are now in one stack; [City Eco Lab never had its own website]; so too are
>> all
>> posts on new economic metrics. We've started a new category on transition
>> and
>> resilience; here we reflect on our encounters with the Transition movement
>> and
>> the ways it is building resilience in communities around the world. Read
>> more
>> at:
>> http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/doors_of_perception_portfolio/
>> http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/city_eco_lab/
>> http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/new_economic_metrics/
>> http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/transition_and_resilience/
>>
>> "CONFIDENT, CONNECTED, OPEN TO CHANGE"
>> According to a new Pew Center study 'Millennials' - teens and
>> twenty-somethings
>> who are making the passage into adulthood - are "confident, self-expressive,
>> upbeat , and open to change." Isn't this marvelous news. If you know any
>> Millenials - perhaps one lives in your house? - please suggest that they
>> need to
>> subscribe to Doors of Perception Report.
>> http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/751/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change
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