Scarcity
Architecture in an Age of Depleting Resources Architectural Design
Published on 6. July 2012
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144 pages
978-1-119-97362-1 (ISBN)
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Leading analysts of all the major resource domains - water, food, material, energy and finance - are all telling us that our global industrial growth models are taking the planet to the brink of chronic scarcity. In architecture, concerns about depleting material and energy sources have largely been centered on the more emollient category of 'sustainability.' This book brings together leading thinkers for the first time in a single volume, including Ezio Manzini, Erik Swyngedouw, John Thackara and Jeremy Till. In addition, featured architects and designers include Jody Boehnert, Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen.
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Jon Goodbun is a writer, architectural/urban/design practitioner and academic. He is based at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster, where he teaches design, theory and is engaged in research. He is also a regular visiting tutor/critic at other schools, recently including the AA, RCA, Greenwich, UCA Canterbury, Brighton and the Bartlett.
Jeremy Till is Dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the the University of Westminster and Professor of Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. He is also well-known for his work as an architect with his partner Sarah Wigglesworth with whom he designed the `seminal house and office, 9 Stock Orchard Street, (The Straw House and Quilted Office) which has received extensive international attention and received numerous awards, including the prestigious RIBA Sustainability Prize.
Deljana Iossifova is an architect at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and holds a PhD in Social Engineering (Public Policy Design) from Tokyo Institute of Technology. She is currently an Our Common Future Fellow (Volkswagen Foundation) and Postdoctoral Fellow (Sustainable Urban Futures) at UNU-IAS.
Jeremy Till is Dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the the University of Westminster and Professor of Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. He is also well-known for his work as an architect with his partner Sarah Wigglesworth with whom he designed the `seminal house and office, 9 Stock Orchard Street, (The Straw House and Quilted Office) which has received extensive international attention and received numerous awards, including the prestigious RIBA Sustainability Prize.
Deljana Iossifova is an architect at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and holds a PhD in Social Engineering (Public Policy Design) from Tokyo Institute of Technology. She is currently an Our Common Future Fellow (Volkswagen Foundation) and Postdoctoral Fellow (Sustainable Urban Futures) at UNU-IAS.
Content
5 Editorial
Helen Castle
6 About the Guest Editors
Jon Goodbun with Jeremy Till and Deljana Iossifova
8 Introduction
Themes of Scarcity
Jon Goodbun, Jeremy Till and Deljana Iossifova
16 Scarcity and Abundance: Urban Agriculture in Cuba and the US
André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn
22 Cities, Natures and the Political Imaginary
Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw
28 Architecture and Relational Resources: Towards a New Materialist Practice
Jon Goodbun and Karin Jaschke
34 Visualising Ecological Literacy
Jody Boehnert
38 Invisible Agency
Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider
44 Systemic Diagramming: An Approach to Decoding Urban Ecologies
Ulysses Sengupta and Deljana Iossifova
52 Flexibility and Ecological Planning: Gregory Bateson on Urbanism
Jon Goodbun
56 Error-Friendliness: How to Deal with the Future Scarcest Resource: The Environmental, Social, Economic Security. That is, How to Design Resilient Socio-Technical Systems
Ezio Manzini 62 Can an Urban Community Independently Run Its Own Waste Services?
Clare Brass, Flora Bowden and Kate McGeevor
66 Anthropocene Nights
Benedict Singleton
72 Peak Oil and Transition Towns
Rob Hopkins
78 Everything We Need: Scarcity, Scale, Hyperobjects
Timothy Morton
82 Investing in the Ground: Reflections on Scarcity, Remediation and Obdurate Form
Douglas Spencer
88 Almost All Right: Vienna's Social Housing Provision
Andreas Rumpfhuber, Michael Klein and Georg Kolmayr
94 Icelandic Initiatives
Arna Mathiesen
100 Beyond the Scarcities of Affluence: An 'Alternative Hedonist' Approach
Kate Soper
102 New York City (Steady) State
Michael Sorkin
110 No Frills and Bare Life: Cheapness and Democracy
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
114 Austeria: City of Minimum Consumption
Daliana Suryawinata and Winy Maas
118 Mapping in Hackney Wick and Fish Island: Observation is Proposition
Liza Fior
122 Norway Was Never So Poor!
Edward Robbins, Christian Hermansen Cordua and Barbara E Ascher
130 The Collision of Scarcity and Expendability in Architectural Culture of the 1960s and 1970s
Steve Parnell
136 counterpoint Is Sustainability Just Another 'Ism'?
Hattie Hartman
141 Contributors
Helen Castle
6 About the Guest Editors
Jon Goodbun with Jeremy Till and Deljana Iossifova
8 Introduction
Themes of Scarcity
Jon Goodbun, Jeremy Till and Deljana Iossifova
16 Scarcity and Abundance: Urban Agriculture in Cuba and the US
André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn
22 Cities, Natures and the Political Imaginary
Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw
28 Architecture and Relational Resources: Towards a New Materialist Practice
Jon Goodbun and Karin Jaschke
34 Visualising Ecological Literacy
Jody Boehnert
38 Invisible Agency
Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider
44 Systemic Diagramming: An Approach to Decoding Urban Ecologies
Ulysses Sengupta and Deljana Iossifova
52 Flexibility and Ecological Planning: Gregory Bateson on Urbanism
Jon Goodbun
56 Error-Friendliness: How to Deal with the Future Scarcest Resource: The Environmental, Social, Economic Security. That is, How to Design Resilient Socio-Technical Systems
Ezio Manzini 62 Can an Urban Community Independently Run Its Own Waste Services?
Clare Brass, Flora Bowden and Kate McGeevor
66 Anthropocene Nights
Benedict Singleton
72 Peak Oil and Transition Towns
Rob Hopkins
78 Everything We Need: Scarcity, Scale, Hyperobjects
Timothy Morton
82 Investing in the Ground: Reflections on Scarcity, Remediation and Obdurate Form
Douglas Spencer
88 Almost All Right: Vienna's Social Housing Provision
Andreas Rumpfhuber, Michael Klein and Georg Kolmayr
94 Icelandic Initiatives
Arna Mathiesen
100 Beyond the Scarcities of Affluence: An 'Alternative Hedonist' Approach
Kate Soper
102 New York City (Steady) State
Michael Sorkin
110 No Frills and Bare Life: Cheapness and Democracy
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
114 Austeria: City of Minimum Consumption
Daliana Suryawinata and Winy Maas
118 Mapping in Hackney Wick and Fish Island: Observation is Proposition
Liza Fior
122 Norway Was Never So Poor!
Edward Robbins, Christian Hermansen Cordua and Barbara E Ascher
130 The Collision of Scarcity and Expendability in Architectural Culture of the 1960s and 1970s
Steve Parnell
136 counterpoint Is Sustainability Just Another 'Ism'?
Hattie Hartman
141 Contributors