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Summarized and selected content dealing with ecology, biomaterials, systems-oriented design.


Inquiry into environmentalism,
the roles of materials and infrastructure

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My interest in the space is spurred on by a series of questions about the material make up of our world:

What does it mean if the things we produce, the products we consume and the environments we inhabit tend to undermine the health of the natural systems that produced us in the first place?

What happens when the existing stack of sociopolitical and economic frameworks remove labour and consumption from the natural regenerative cycles of our planet?

Which seemingly benign objects and materials are evidence of this estrangement?
 

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Blown Polystyrene, Ezio Manzini, The Material of Invention
Layers of synthetics, Ezio Manzini The Material of Invention