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Kultur und Next Nature - Koert van Mensvoort - Coggle Diagram
Kultur und Next Nature - Koert van Mensvoort
How technology becomes nature
pyramid of technology
, inspired by Maslow's hierarchy of human needs; every aspect needs to be fulfilled before movinf to the next
Stage 1: ENVISIONED
: idea exists in the human mind, birth chamber of all new technology, e.g. quantum computing, time machines (dreamers, poets, artists, science fiction writers; e.g. Jules Verne)
Stage 2: OPERATIONAL
: working prototype exists, e.g. lab grown meat (principle scientists, inventors; e.g. Nikola Tesla)
Stage 3: APPLIED
: technology becomes available and affordable, e.g. solar panels for a long time, nuclear energy which is never truly accepted (engenieers, entrepreneurs; e.g. Thomas Edison)
Stage 4: ACCEPTED
: part of everyday life, e.g. smartphones, cars, TVs (designers, user experts, marketeers; e.g. Steve Jobs)
becomes familiar
Stage 5: VITAL
: hard to live without, removing it would lead to a lifestyle crisis, e.g. suage systems, GPS, internet (policy markers, politicians?; e.g. Barack Obama?)
Stage 6: INVISIBLE
: not experienced as technology, e.g. alphabet, clock (teachers?)
becomes
second nature
Stage 7: NATURALIZED
: indistinguishable from nature, e.g. clothing, agriculture, cooking (vacancy, parents?)
becomes
first nature
With our technologies nature is being transformed into next nature
When talking about technologies, only the four lower stages are understood as technology –-> very limiting, settling for limited solution
not going back to, but rather forward to nature
Next Nature - The Nature Caused by People
desire to design our environment according to an idealized image of untouched nature
technology becomes invisible, looking like untouched landscape
much of nature is a simulation, much of
Next Nature
emerges where it is least expected
images of nature can sell almost anything ( green washing, “ECO”, “organic” or “natural” products --> nature promoting in a one dimension way: harmonic, force of life etc.
what is nature?
The planet which exists (5 billion years ago),
biosphere
(took over 3 billion years to emerge),
with emerging of humankind 1 billion years later: technosphere
: of all human technology --> evolution goes on; we are born in a world that is designed already, we are the most natural thing;
the born and made are fusing; Nature and Culture are shifting
Old view of nature
: everything that is born (beyond control or controlled);
new view of nature
:
everything that is beyond control (born and made)
;
nature made by people: beyond control but made; nature can be naturalized
(eg. Smartphones now, electric light 100 years ago, agriculture 10.000 years ago, cooking 200.000 years ago)
Humans are technological by nature; the same thing is happening over and over again;
nature changes along with us; move away from the idea of nature as a static entity from the past that is now threatened and has to be saved
We are co-evolving with our technologies
We need to accept that we created this technosphere;
we need to embrace its complexity, it is growing bigger that us; we need to find ways to guide its growth, rather than linger in the illusion of total control
; perhaps our experience with the biosphere might help us to cope with the emerging technosphere; we need to develop an ecological intelligence to balance these to spheres